Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Just yesterday I read a tweet that called the #nonprofit twitter tag a “cavernous echo chamber.” Here’s what’s pissing me off: The reason I have to fight every time to do these stories [like Darfur] is because the truth is that it’s hard to get the majority of Americans…to care. ” (not in video). That is a huge mistake.”

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2017

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

There's quite a buzz right now about whether or not " Slacktivism " doing activism online, all the time - can effect change. 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

There's quite a buzz right now about whether or not " Slacktivism " doing activism online, all the time - can effect change. 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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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The country has been making global headlines in recent years, both for cross-border craziness as well as serious domestic concerns, including 2014 attempts by the Prime Minister to shut down Twitter prior to the election (in a country where nearly 20 percent of the population — equaling nearly 10 million users — has Twitter accounts). *In

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

We had the time to dig into a topic and come out with a deeper understanding. Here's a few examples: Shireen Mitchell who I had never met face-to-face but who generously provided information about people of color and the social web via Twitter while I doing a workshop demo. This was the first time we met face-to-face!

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EveryAction

AUGUST 28, 2017

In anticipation of this day, we’ve compiled a list of 6 nonprofits that are committed to doing more good through innovative campaigns + programs and ways you can get involved - from volunteering your time, signing a petition, donating money, or just spreading the word. Twitter | Facebook. Twitter | Facebook. Twitter | Facebook.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

That ethos continued until the last three years or so with issues in Burma, Iran, and China. In Iran we’ve seen it used to get out information and resist censorship but have also seen it used by the government to alter a mobile phone system and monitoring calls. Tweets and highlights from this event on Twitter at #AITech.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

Twitter: twitter.com/witnessorg. WITNESS currently utilizes the following social media tools: YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and “Video for Change” (blog). The blog has been the key standardized staple that helps to regularly generate content for readers, which then is further shared via Twitter and Facebook.

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Care2

OCTOBER 4, 2011

People have been silenced throughout time by media outlets, governments and authority figures who strive to keep minorities and protestors at bay. 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. In the U.S.,

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Care2

OCTOBER 3, 2011

People have been silenced throughout time by media outlets, governments and authority figures who strive to keep minorities and protestors at bay. 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. In the U.S.,

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2015

In 2013, he publically confronted Iran's foreign minister, Mohamed Zarif, in New York demanding the release of political prisoner Majid Tavakoli. It caused a social media furor, and the Iranian government released Tavakoli for a time. ” Keyes agreed that it is a risk and something that Movements.org is still figuring out.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

It's time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news! The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. YouTube is the second most active social media site in the world, followed by Twitter, Google + , LinkedIn , and Pinterest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

He’s most known for his YouTube video: The Machine is Us/ing Us viewed 10 million times). Randi Zuckerberg from Facebook, who talked about how social networks are being used for social change, particularly as an organizing tool for local revolutions such as those in Columbia and Iran.

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