Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

Using Twitter search or other tools, you can watch news and updates about the election in Iran by using #IranElection; or, find interesting people to follow and connect with using #FollowFriday to peruse the recommendations that pile up on Fridays. There are many opportunities to see hashtags in action!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 29, 2016

What drives you and motivates you to create change in your community? Tell us about the change you're making in your community. This Challenge is void in Cuba, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, and all countries under sanction by the U.S. Symantec helps nonprofits make their mission possible. Share your story.

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Care2

MARCH 10, 2010

2009 Iran Election: Women's Revolution? Crowd Sourcing Innovative Social Change March 14 at 3:30 PM. The panel will review results from a recently completed research project investigating social media fundraising strategies specifically supporting events. Twitter Revolution? March 14 at 11:00 AM.

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Care2

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Recent events in Iran and India showed Twitter's ability to build a groundswell and deploy rapid response messaging, albeit in a much less urgent sense in holding rallies and actions related to climate change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. The Social Change Challenge will crowdsource innovative ideas from nonprofits to change the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. . These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? Submitted by Michael Silberman. What is it?

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

Born in Iran and at age 3 moved to Canada; now in NYC. "I That changed when I got to Canada." "As Azita didn''t grow up thinking she would start a digital media agency (because that didn''t exist). I remember as a little girl being hushed a lot when I was out with my mom. As a Millennial, I don''t self-identify that way.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Oh, and please do give a thumbs up to the panel Beth and I cooked up: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change ]. on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change. What is it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Leaders strive to change the way that other people think, feel and act”. . Deep change is all about a change in the collective story. It is a change in the way that people, think, feel and act. . We have to get behind the trajectory of story described above, and use peoples’ stories to effect more and better change. .

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

In addition to Syria and Iraq, these are Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, and the Azerbaijani exclave: Nakhchivan. (If Amongst these, the change in political climate in recent years has negatively affected how government bodies engage and work with civil society organizations. If you knew all eight, go buy yourself a cookie!).

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2007

There are many players whose lives--and everyday lifestyles--were changed by participation in World Without Oil. But is that reader changing her lifestyle because of it? There's some potential for innovation there, for someone to think up a brilliant lifestyle change for the better that people can start jumping on board with."

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2009

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility.

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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. In Iran we’ve seen it used to get out information and resist censorship but have also seen it used by the government to alter a mobile phone system and monitoring calls. Youtube and facebook are just the new tools for political change.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 28, 2017

In response to the Supreme Court’s decision to temporarily grant the Trump administration's request to reinstate portions of its travel ban (blocking people from six countries - Iran, Yemen, Sudan, Syria, Libya and Somalia - from entering the United States), CARE reignited their #BetterThanTheBan campaign. Get Involved. Twitter | Facebook.

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Care2

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Social media may be changing that across the globe. 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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

WITNESS currently utilizes the following social media tools: YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and “Video for Change” (blog). 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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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. I think that often times, people who find themselves drawn to work to change something about the world don't recognize that somehow it is reflecting something, like you're saying, that they want to heal or change about what is going on inside them.

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Care2

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Social media may be changing that across the globe. 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.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 18, 2010

Amazingly powerful insights on America and our role building this nation. -- Martin Luther King Day, 2010 Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. Martin Luther King, Jr. I remember when I discovered my own racism.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

There are people in positions of power in places like Iran and Washington, D.C. Five to ten percent can change the world. That's really what it is about. It's about the belief system. The next belief system is a spirituality that loves science. who have a spirituality that rejects science. It loves science.

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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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