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The Revolution is Twitterfied

Forum One

YouTube: A student group posting videos on the Iranian election and aftermath. Protest Iran Election. Katrin Verclas' Twitterfeed - actively amplifying the news out of Iran. Internet Graphs: Internet usage trends on Twitter show the consistency and growth of the Iran Election movement. Twitter: #iranelection.

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MCON13 Live Blog: Connecting with Millennials (Azita Ardakani, Lovesocial)

NTEN

Born in Iran and at age 3 moved to Canada; now in NYC. "I And it tipped into this [link to video about Lovesocial''s core values and principles]." People will get a very real sense from a tweet, Instagram post, Facebook video if you are what you say you are. So any campaign that people activate is based off that trusted space.

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Jon Husband, Guest Post: The New Realities of Engagement – Stories That Drive Action Planning and Implementation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Outlined in the brief article below is a new way of using the Web and web services to gather peoples’ stories – anecdotes, video clips, podcasts, blog posts and all sorts of other snippets – and help not-for-profit organizations move into action planning based on the “raw material” of what people are saying and talking about.

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Game Friday: The Aftermath of the ARG World Without Oil

Museum 2.0

Yes, much was generated by the game masters, but there are now 143,000 google hits for "world without oil," the majority of which are player-generated blogs, livejournals, photo pages, videos, you name it. Overall, about 60,000 interacted with WWO resources during the game, 1,871 of whom actively contributed content. I wasn't ready.

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

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. Technology is amoral – it doesn’t care.

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Nonprofit Technology News for June 2013

Tech Soup

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. News Online Activism social media nonprofit technology news' There are now 2.4

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Guest Post by Heather McLeod Grant: Reflections on the Personal Democracy Forum

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Vince Stehle of Surdna was present, along with Chris Gates of PACE ( Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement ); and there were some grassroots organizers such as ACORN in breakout sessions. He’s most known for his YouTube video: The Machine is Us/ing Us viewed 10 million times).

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