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Twitter for Activism Tool VS Strategy Debate and A New Twitter Activism Guide

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ivan ends with this advice: Begin with your campaign's strategy — the food you want to eat. And, while it may be an argument about semantics, it further illustrates this tension. The strategy always comes first, and then you figure out which tool fits. The alternative? A forest fire.

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Mark Pesce at CUA09 - Think Like a Cloud, Make a Storm, Kill the Tower!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I think this is connected to what Rheingold's Attention Literacy piece, but I have go back and read it again. Ethan Zuckerman recently did an analysis of tweets from Moldova and found this to be true. His advice: (1) Embrace the cloud - it isn't evil. For each of us, connectivity carries a high price. Don't be scared of it. (2)

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