Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2009

The "is Twitter a strategy or tool debate" was fueled as Twitter got lots of attention (and hype ) as part of the coverage of last week's protests in Moldova. Ivan Boothe points out in his post " The Fire and Food: Why There's No Such Thing As A Twitter Revolution ," the real-time use of Twitter as an organizing tool is a not revolution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

Which is not to diminish the hard work of social justice organizers in Moldova. They seemed to miss the fact that a) Twitter wasn't actually a big part of the organizing strategy, and b) the campaign itself didn't end up seriously threatening the regime; at best it was a mild skirmish and it certainly wasn't a "revolution" of any kind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

Ethan Zuckerman recently did an analysis of tweets from Moldova and found this to be true. This is what Clay Shirky was saying during the NTC Keynote when he said there was always a small group in the center of the groundswell.

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