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Spotlight on Social Media, Crowdsourced Translation, Egyptian Protests and Diplomacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A new book, “The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom,” by a young Belarus-born American scholar, Evgeny Morozov , has made the case most provocatively, describing instance after instance of strongmen finding ways to use new media to their advantage. Right now there is not anyway to crowdsource and attach a translation to Tweets.

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Quick Hit: Five Great Links

Museum 2.0

Three intrepid blog managers are soliciting contributions from all over the world, and so far, there are posts from Belarus, Canada, Germany, Northern Ireland, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine, and the US. Finally, if you need a hit of inspiration and historical museum-making, I strongly recommend checking out the Boston Stories project.

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Metro4All — Making All Metro Systems Accessible

Tech Soup

Metro4All was founded by Maxim Dubinin in Moscow a few years ago as a social good project of his interactive mapping company, NextGIS. The Metro4All project creates web and mobile apps that give people with limited mobility point-to-point directions on using their subway system. Sustainability of the Project. What Is Metro4All?

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Empowering Women Bloggers

Have Fun - Do Good

Two projects supporting women bloggers launched yesterday, the new Blogher network and the Young Caucasus Women Project. The Young Caucasus Women Project works with young women ages 15-19 from Armenia , Azerbaijan and Georgia who are participating in the Future Leaders Exchange Program.

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