Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

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. Additional panels mentioned in the comments of the earlier roundup are here: Who are you? Submitted by Jacob Colker. Submitted by Charlene Li.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

And, if you submitted a nonprofit panel - and I managed to miss it while scanning 2200 in ten minutes - please add the link and description in a comment. 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.

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Social Media Nonprofit Jordan Cancer 67

Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2007

As one player commented: "rather than just getting people to 'think about' the problem, it [WWO] actually gets a large and actively interested community of people to throw ideas off of each other through their in-game blog posts, and the out-of-game Alternate Reality Game community. But is that reader changing her lifestyle because of it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

I knew many of the people in the room face-to-face, some for many years, or I knew them from online, having exchanged tweets or blog comments with them. Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer who I've meet before face-to-face through attending NTEN NTC conferences, although we first encountered each other via leaving comments on each other's blogs.

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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. Technology is amoral – it doesn’t care.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

We monitor the numbers from the various platforms via an excel spreadsheet that we do calculations to get percentages of increase in followers, click-throughs, comments, referrers and more. However, an alarming proportion of those views were accompanied by vitriolic, hateful and ignorant comments.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. The company is so controversial that the comments are often more fun to read than the main articles on it in the IT press. There are now 2.4 To check eligibility, the best place to begin is the Connect2Compete home page.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 18, 2010

His comments for Martin Luther King Day are included below, and the link to his blog above will take you to the half dozen or so essays he does annually. We see the tragic consequences when fear and hatred win out over the Golden Rule in places like the Middle East, Iran, North Korea, Darfur, Zimbabwe, and Myanmar.

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