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Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Forum One

Read More ยป Entrepreneurship and Internet Diplomacy in the Muslim and Arab World Sarah Hassaine in Influence 17 May 2010 When President Obama took the stage in Cairo, Egypt last year, millions tuned in to hear his approach for improved U.S. In this case. " A key message was.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Submitted by Jacob Colker. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? Come to this session and find out! Submitted Kari Dunn Saratovsky.

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Last Chance to Vote for Nonprofit SXSW Panels: Closes September 4th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. It's Not All About You: Respecting Your Users Dinosaur to Digital: A Museum Convergence Success Story. Submitted by Jacob Colker.

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Guest Post: Beth Kanter's SXSWi Nonprofit Panel Roundup

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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. Open Leadership: The Upside of Giving Up Control : A social or digital strategy often fails because the culture doesn't support it. Submitted by Jacob Colker.

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Changing the World: TechSoup's Newest Global Partner

Tech Soup

But first, some context: Let's start with a volatile mix of Syrian refugees, border conflicts paired with complicated politics , protests, Internet censorship, and a youth unemployment rate of 20 percent. In addition to Syria and Iraq, these are Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, and the Azerbaijani exclave: Nakhchivan. (If

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

Context for the event from Rory Cellan-Jones: Prevailing ethos of the web has been libertarian, optimistic about the potential of the internet to be a medium of free expression and break down barriers. That ethos continued until the last three years or so with issues in Burma, Iran, and China.

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Nonprofit Technology News for June 2013

Tech Soup

I’ll review Mary Meeker and Liang Wu’s annual report on the Internet, a new NTEN report on nonprofit technology assistance providers, Facebook’s new guidelines for nonprofits and causes, charities losing control of Hactivism, Google’s new micro-donation app, and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month.

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