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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 17, 2009
As the latest technology allows people to “engage” from their computers/phones rather than getting their hands dirty IRL, will this impact the future of volunteerism? Digital Protests This session will explore the role that social media plays in protests, through the lens of recent events like Iran and the American health care debate.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 3, 2009
As the latest technology allows people to “engage” from their computers/phones rather than getting their hands dirty IRL, will this impact the future of volunteerism? Digital Protests This session will explore the role that social media plays in protests, through the lens of recent events like Iran and the American health care debate.
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NTEN
AUGUST 21, 2009
As the latest technology allows people to “engage” from their computers/phones rather than getting their hands dirty IRL, will this impact the future of volunteerism? Digital Protests This session will explore the role that social media plays in protests, through the lens of recent events like Iran and the American health care debate.
Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 22, 2010
Context for the event from Rory Cellan-Jones: Prevailing ethos of the web has been libertarian, optimistic about the potential of the internet to be a medium of free expression and break down barriers. That ethos continued until the last three years or so with issues in Burma, Iran, and China.
Tech Soup
JUNE 24, 2013
I’ll review Mary Meeker and Liang Wu’s annual report on the Internet, a new NTEN report on nonprofit technology assistance providers, Facebook’s new guidelines for nonprofits and causes, charities losing control of Hactivism, Google’s new micro-donation app, and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month.
Care2
OCTOBER 3, 2011
Are Facebook, Twitter and YouTube creating an online democratic world where democracy does not exist otherwise? Women in Iran and protestors on Wall Street think so. But she did have social media outlets like Twitter and YouTube. The impending protest would have been via cell phones and social media. In the U.S.,
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 8, 2009
While some have a Utopian vision of the Internet as the Great Integrator, or Ultimate Public Space, boyd cautioned against this naïve illusion and pushes us to work harder to cross the digital divide. (My Everyone who has Twitter now has a global distribution network.” It’s a dynamic that is dominating the mindshare of diplomats.”.
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