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Great reads from around the web on December 15th

Amy Sample Ward

After massive leaks of documents on the Iraq and Afghan wars and diplomatic cables from around the world, Wikileaks has demonstrated that it is a formidable threat to American legitimacy and power. Now, thanks to the tactical success of Operation Payback's DDoS attacks, they are. And it's fun!

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Revamped Politics Online Conference Ready for Its Closeup - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

(57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Session on Does web 2.0

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$100,000 Grant: Polls Still Open in the Peace Primary - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

(57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

Our work focuses on advocacy, policy, education and political thought that helps to shape the dialogue and public conversation about the interests of these folks. Certainly, our policy work on welfare advocacy has stretched across race and class, and our peace and solidarity work has done the same. That can happen all over the country.

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Social Media for Good and Evil, Strong and Weak Ties, Online/Offline,and Orgs and Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rather than comparing Woolworth sit-ins to the much-hyped Twitter Revolution, finding the latter coming up wanting, and stopping there, Gladwell might have given some space in the New Yorker to dig a little deeper to find examples of folks using technology to organize in intriguing, successful ways. The examples are there, too.

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Self-Censorship for Museum Professionals

Museum 2.0

In science and technology centers, there are some “can’t”s that are alive and well in other museums. on kids' freedom--keeps science and technology museums from hard topics and edgy presentation styles. Here are a few things I learned from this session: Self-censorship is different in different museum types.

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Training Afghani NGOs in Cambodia

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In some cases, the information is intended for use in court cases or international prosecution, to support a human rights report, or advocacy campaign. We encourage all NGOs to clarify their goals and objectives so that any documentation or advocacy they engage in is as focused as possible.

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