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International Organizations and Social Media: News, Engagement, and Social Data for Policy Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social channels continued to show strong growth over the past 12 months, with top social networks adding more than 135 million new users in the course of 2013. Benchmark Studies and Examples. Twitter is sometimes used by small nations to increase their global visibility and tweet on a level playing field with other nations.

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Crowdsourcing Skills for Human Rights via Movements.org

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As The Daily Beast senior correspondent for national security and politics Josh Rogin put it : Movements.org "seeks to put activists in closed societies in touch with skilled people in the free world who can help them. My hope is that the site will somehow create a channel for directly telling truth to power. Image 2: David Keyes.

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The Convergence of Social Activism, Donations, and Social Media: Episodic Giving In A Post Truth World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From Syria to China to Mexico, mass economic and politically-driven migration and refugee crises are triggering social tension, the rebooting of nationalisms and the emboldening of old prejudices. And yes, that sense is made more acute by the relentless visibility of one percenter lifestyles in all their Instagrammed ‘glory’.