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Leveraging Technology to Respond to Global Crises

Cloud 4 Good

Hosted by Salesforce.org Chief Customer Officer Rob Acker, Cloud for Good Founder & CEO Tal Frankfurt and CARE Head of Corporate Partnerships Chris Noble discussed the strategies and technologies that help them be nimble enough to respond to emergency campaigns, create change regularly, and the lessons they have learned along the way.

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Twitter for Activism Tool VS Strategy Debate and A New Twitter Activism Guide

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I think it's easy, however, to misread the technology as the cause of the movement rather than as simply a tool of it. Then determine which technologies will best cultivate the fire within your supporters to achieve the social change you seek. And, while it may be an argument about semantics, it further illustrates this tension.

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Guest Post by Ivan Boothe: Social change takes more than social media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I entirely share the author's frustration with "tech for social change" discussions that fawn over the technology and don't engage on the level of strategic change. Which is not to diminish the hard work of social justice organizers in Moldova. Mad props to them.) Social justice organizers are a pretty creative bunch.

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Mark Pesce at CUA09 - Think Like a Cloud, Make a Storm, Kill the Tower!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by James Jordan I'm actually in the clouds, flying to California on Virgin America using the (not free) wifi listening to Mark Pesce's keynote via Mike Seyfang delivered the other day at Connecting Up Australia the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Australia (see web site for details). I keynoted the conference last year.

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