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

Forum One

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If In this case.

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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. This panel will explore various innovative and creative uses of social media and online technology to support the local food movement.

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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. This panel will explore various innovative and creative uses of social media and online technology to support the local food movement.

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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. This panel will explore various innovative and creative uses of social media and online technology to support the local food movement.

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

Care2

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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Crowdsourcing Skills for Human Rights via Movements.org

Tech Soup

In 2013, he publically confronted Iran's foreign minister, Mohamed Zarif, in New York demanding the release of political prisoner Majid Tavakoli. A Cuban professor getting IT help to get on the Internet. " Movements.org does not target activists in open societies where human rights issues exist but where dissidence is legal.

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