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Weekly Member Round Up: Technology and World Change

NTEN

World Change, by Glennharper Here at NTEN we talk about the power of technology to change the world every day - in part, by allowing unheard voices, information, and numerical data to speak in new and meaningful ways. This week our members inspire us with change and the technology driving it. Have more news to share?

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From Crisis Mapping Egypt: Collection of Maps. The New York Times reported on the use of social media and protests suggesting that Egypt’s government was afraid of the power of social networking tools. What this can do is prevent language from being a barrier to participate or follow a social change through social media.

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Guest Post by Ivan Boothe: Social change takes more than social media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Submitted by Ivan Boothe, publisher of the Rootwork Blog Over at the NetSquared blog, Joe Solomon provided a great roundup of reasons people might be "jaded about social media for change" and ways they overcome it. Joe runs through some great responses from a whole bevy of social-media-for-change folks, including me.

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Mary Joyce: Global Social Change Blogher - Her Latest: Free Monem Campaign

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My colleague Mary Joyce who writes a blog called " ZapBoom: The Sound That Change Makes " that focuses on the question, "Under what conditions does citizen activism occur and how can it be supported and encouraged?" Birds' s 2/12/07 (how blogging is changing the Muslim Brotherhood. MONEM'S POSTS.

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Video Streaming Apps — To Stream or Not to Stream

Tech Soup

We saw how Twitter changed information-sharing in 2011 Egypt, after all. Imagine the evolution of civil and political society in a world where moments can be documented by anyone, and accountability is monitored by the masses. Live Streaming and Appropriation.

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PdF Discount and Call: The Internet's Future - Will It Be Free?

Tech Soup

The theme this year is Agents of Change and TechSoup's own Daniel Ben-Horin (one of our CEOs) will be speaking on a panel. does the future look like, and how can it be changed? Personal Democracy Forum (PdF) 2011 is. coming up June 6-7 in New York, and as the content, speakers, and attendees are all. To access the. With on-going.

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Diversity in Design: Inclusion Won’t Fix a Broken System

Media Cause

We’re not going to change or redefine what the system looks like, we want to TEACH YOU what it is and how you can be part of it. We read articles mapping out the “perfect face” according to the Greek ratio of Phi but we never question why Greek history is the arbiter of truth in many cases when much of Greek philosophy was stolen from Egypt.

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