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Spotlight on Social Media, Crowdsourced Translation, Egyptian Protests and Diplomacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From Crisis Mapping Egypt: Collection of Maps. The New York Times reported on the use of social media and protests suggesting that Egypt’s government was afraid of the power of social networking tools. The #jan25 Twitter hashtag also has examples of the State Department’s Arab Twitter Diplomacy.

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Video Streaming Apps — To Stream or Not to Stream

Tech Soup

Meanwhile, they also raise good questions about what live streaming means for civil society, content appropriation, and security. We saw how Twitter changed information-sharing in 2011 Egypt, after all. The potential to live stream from anywhere leads to certain security questions. Live Streaming for Civil Society.

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60+ Spring Fundraising Ideas for Every Nonprofit

Qgiv

Host a pub-style quiz for your community and include some questions about your mission as a fun way to share your organization’s impact. Passover celebration fundraiser Passover is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the Israelites’ escape from slavery and departure from ancient Egypt. Pub quiz Everyone loves a bit of trivia!

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Weekly Member Round Up: Technology and World Change

NTEN

He was inspired when the citizens of Egypt and Tunisia used satellite connections to contact Internet service providers in other countries, when their governments shut down access to the World Wide Web. Frank Barry discusses 39 questions you can answer with Facebook insights on his Blackbaud blog. Shervin Pishevar of the U.N.

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Diversity in Design: Inclusion Won’t Fix a Broken System

Media Cause

But as we learn these rules, we often forget to question where and how those rules were created in the first place. We read articles mapping out the “perfect face” according to the Greek ratio of Phi but we never question why Greek history is the arbiter of truth in many cases when much of Greek philosophy was stolen from Egypt.

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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

There are so many big questions about the connected world we live and how it transforms our society, as this opinion piece from CNN discusses. It is also raising questions about censorship on the Internet. Why aren’t we talking about nonviolent approaches to resolving conflict?

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Wendy Sternberg Leaves Her Medical Career to Heal the World

See3

At See3 we have the pleasure of collaborating with Wendy to help her find a way to document and distribute video from her upcoming concert tour of Egypt and Jordan. Wendy Sternberg answers the question with a resounding Yes! Some of us feel trapped in our professions and wonder, can we really change the world?