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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

I think it's easy, however, to misread the technology as the cause of the movement rather than as simply a tool of it. And, while it may be an argument about semantics, it further illustrates this tension. Fire, for instance, was a society-changing tool.

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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

Yet individuals will nonetheless often dedicate themselves to some cause greater than themselves, despite the high price paid, drawn to some higher ideal. Ethan Zuckerman recently did an analysis of tweets from Moldova and found this to be true. Time spent invested in a far-flung cloud is time that lost on networks closer to home.

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