Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Digital Protests This session will explore the role that social media plays in protests, through the lens of recent events like Iran and the American health care debate. Submitted by Jacob Colker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Digital Protests This session will explore the role that social media plays in protests, through the lens of recent events like Iran and the American health care debate. Submitted by Jacob Colker.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Digital Protests This session will explore the role that social media plays in protests, through the lens of recent events like Iran and the American health care debate. Submitted by Ted Fickes. Submitted by Jacob Colker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Debbas who was in Iran at the time, risking his life said, "It helped because I didn't want to die anonymously and we can discredit raising awareness.". I think the concept is even bigger and we connect it to using social media for cause related marketing. Here's an example that just crossed my inbox from Microsoft and Windows 7.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

That ethos continued until the last three years or so with issues in Burma, Iran, and China. We’ve seen potential for those unsympathetic to the cause to use the technology too – a bit of an arms race created. Communication technologies have always been used for political change, especially with Iran.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

Then we further promote the fundraiser via our website, Facebook (via our Cause and Page) and to lesser degree via Twitter. Recent events in Burma in 2007 and Iran in 2009 and even the US in 2010 reveal that governments can easily comb activists’ footage online and seek out protesters and citizens for arrest, persecution or worse.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

I’ll review Mary Meeker and Liang Wu’s annual report on the Internet, a new NTEN report on nonprofit technology assistance providers, Facebook’s new guidelines for nonprofits and causes, charities losing control of Hactivism, Google’s new micro-donation app, and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2015

In 2013, he publically confronted Iran's foreign minister, Mohamed Zarif, in New York demanding the release of political prisoner Majid Tavakoli. It caused a social media furor, and the Iranian government released Tavakoli for a time. Beyond Slacktivism to a Personal Relationship with a Cause.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

Women in Iran and protestors on Wall Street think so. During the Iran protests in February of 2011, a woman who was raped, sexually assaulted and beaten once she was identified as a "rioter" simply for voting, had no voice and little way to speak out about her experience. Social media may be changing that across the globe.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

I grew up in Iraq during Saddam's time, and during the time in which we had the war with Iran. On the one hand, the formal way to answer this question would be: I was 20 when I arrived in the U.S. The impact of that is so magnificent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

. · Randi Zuckerberg from Facebook, who talked about how social networks are being used for social change, particularly as an organizing tool for local revolutions such as those in Columbia and Iran. Facebook now has 200M users, the majority of whom are outside of the US.

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