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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis. But can they also combat apathy? Let's discuss: join us! By Skylar Woodward.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis. But can they also combat apathy? Let's discuss: join us! By Skylar Woodward.

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Guest Post: Beth Kanter's SXSWi Nonprofit Panel Roundup

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Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis. But can they also combat apathy? Let's discuss: join us! By Skylar Woodward.

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

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Read More ยป Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility. In this case.

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

That ethos continued until the last three years or so with issues in Burma, Iran, and China. In Iran we’ve seen it used to get out information and resist censorship but have also seen it used by the government to alter a mobile phone system and monitoring calls. Youtube and facebook are just the new tools for political change.

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Social Media: Not Just a Revolution, but a Voice for the Silenced

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Are Facebook, Twitter and YouTube creating an online democratic world where democracy does not exist otherwise? Women in Iran and protestors on Wall Street think so. Without any legislation to grant women in Iran speech of any sort, social media is an anonymous outlet for these women to let the world know what happens to them.

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Guest Post by Heather McLeod Grant: Reflections on the Personal Democracy Forum

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She talked about how online social networks mirror off-line social dynamics, and described the phenomenon of โ€œwhite flightโ€ from MySpace to Facebook. Facebook now has 200M users, the majority of whom are outside of the US. Everyone who has Twitter now has a global distribution network.โ€

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