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Microsoft’s Networked Approach To Accelerating Social Change Through Technology

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Leveraging Networks with Partnerships. One theme he touched on that resonated throughout the day is how Microsoft is working with networks and partners to leverage it’s financial, technical, and social change commitment. Tags: Content Networks Philanthropy. ." - Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft.

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Entrepreneurship and Internet Diplomacy in the Muslim and Arab World

Forum One

"One way to energize and sustain this (Arab Empowerment) movement is to effectively leverage influencers online to connect potential partners together and encourage participation," said luncheon guest, Lisa Mabe, Principal of Hewar Social Communications. Tags: Influence Events Collaboration Communication Events Government.

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New on SSIR: Letting Technology Lead

Amy Sample Ward

I blogged earlier this year about research that indicates very strongly we’ve replicated our offline social barriers and segmentation in our online social networking platforms. ( Visit danah boyd’s website for more information and research on this topic.) What it Means to Communities.

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New on SSIR: Letting Technology Lead

Amy Sample Ward

I blogged earlier this year about research that indicates very strongly we’ve replicated our offline social barriers and segmentation in our online social networking platforms. ( Visit danah boyd’s website for more information and research on this topic.) What it Means to Communities.

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Causes Leaves MySpace: Should We Care?

Tech Soup

My colleague Amy wrote in a Stanford Social Innovation Review column , "The debate around social media and the Internet in general as a leveling force is still heated from all sides. Yes you can claim that anyone has the power to blog, but that's really only the people who have access to the tools and the time and the empowerment.

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7 Things That Social Media Will Enhance

NCE Social Media

Empowerment of niches communities and small businesses – It used to be that only in a city someone could find others with a shared interest in an area outside of popular culture. These communities, the mix of individuals across microblogging, social networks orums and videos, are speaking to a given company.

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Nonprofit Technology News: Help for Charities to Develop Mobile Giving Capacity

Tech Soup

” It turns out that Facebook news feeds are moving away from being a social network to allow a stream of business advertisers to have precedence. In the midst of a pivotal moment in patient engagement and empowerment, our microphone has been turned off. It became about brands and messaging, rather than humans with messages.”

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