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Using Twitter to Build a Community and Recruit Volunteers

Amy Sample Ward

Journalists using social media in Egypt. How to make quality content on Twitter. . $100,000 in 3 Days: Interview about #TeamAutism. Social media in disaster response. National Theatre screws up, what we can learn from mistakes. American Red Cross Twitter Mistakes and Fundraising. Atlanta Councilman chooses Twitter.

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Bookshare without Borders: #3/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Now another important aspect of our strategy for enhancing Bookshare’s new language capabilities is developing the capacity to handle non-European scripts and languages so that the content may be presented in its original form in our members’ native languages. Digitally processing Arabic-language content is no easy task.

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Building a Global Library

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A tech guy from Egypt was the standout moment for me so far. I was attending a session organized by the library association, IFLA, and he got up and talked about how Egypt does not have a culture of reading. His point was the 5 million Internet users in Egypt are the people who do read.

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Video Streaming Apps — To Stream or Not to Stream

Tech Soup

Whatever form that storytelling takes, from photo essay to member video, story-driven content is dynamic, shows impact, and can attract new potential donors. Meanwhile, they also raise good questions about what live streaming means for civil society, content appropriation, and security. Live Streaming for Civil Society.

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Center for the Future of Museums: Khan Academy & Cultural Understanding

AFP Blog

We’ve begun to partner with museums to bring their formidable expertise to a global audience (often by simply repurposing pre-existing content). And we are working with over 100 art historians with deep knowledge of content stretching from Ancient Egypt to contemporary art in sub-Saharan Africa. NPMuseumMarketing NPMuseums'

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The Future of (Nonprofit) Television

NTEN

In 1989, during a week in the Sinai desert in Egypt, I was invited into a Bedouin compound. On the web and on our smartphones, we have websites and applications that deliver video content. It's all content, delivered through bandwidth, dominated by video. There were no electric lights or modern appliances. That's you!).

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Some Reflections About Civil Society 2.0 and Why I’m Not On A Plane To Tunisia Right Now

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Youtube blocked access to the offensive video in two of the countries in turmoil, Egypt and Libya , but did not remove the video from its Web site. ” Simon Mainwaring also has an insightful post on this topic.

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