Forum One

JUNE 16, 2009

What's more fascinating to this social media geek, is that through cooperation from hackers and content generators, this social-media based revolution is happening from within a closed society. YouTube: A student group posting videos on the Iranian election and aftermath. Protest Iran Election. Twitter: #iranelection.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

Throughout the day, we''ve been listening in on sessions from MCON13 , a conference to help leaders engage the Millennial generation. Born in Iran and at age 3 moved to Canada; now in NYC. "I Remember that magazine cover calling us ''the me generation''? Find Azita Ardakani at @azita on Twitter or learn more at lovesocial.org.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2007

Yes, much was generated by the game masters, but there are now 143,000 google hits for "world without oil," the majority of which are player-generated blogs, livejournals, photo pages, videos, you name it. There are also "threads" on the right column that present a variety of player-created tours of the archives.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

Mission: WITNESS uses video to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations. WITNESS currently utilizes the following social media tools: YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and “Video for Change” (blog). YouTube is also a key part of our social media strategy, it is the platform we rely on for sharing our videos.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

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. Technology is amoral – it doesn’t care.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

We have raised enough to go this far, and develop a web site, and materials, and a video, and some staff and outreach, and we have got 100,000 square feet of office tenants lined up. There are people in positions of power in places like Iran and Washington, D.C. We've recruited Pharmica , which is a natural pharmacy. It's up to a $1.7

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

The other most compelling presentation of the conference was by Michael Wesch , from Kansas State, who talked about how YouTube and online video is shaping our notions of self and identity, allowing for new possibilities of connection and community. He’s most known for his YouTube video: The Machine is Us/ing Us viewed 10 million times).

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