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Twitter for Activism Tool VS Strategy Debate and A New Twitter Activism Guide

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I think it's easy, however, to misread the technology as the cause of the movement rather than as simply a tool of it. Then determine which technologies will best cultivate the fire within your supporters to achieve the social change you seek. And, while it may be an argument about semantics, it further illustrates this tension.

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Guest Post by Ivan Boothe: Social change takes more than social media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I won't try to speak for them, but I do think they aren't blindly following the latest tech hype and hoping it will change the world — many of them have clear social change strategies. Where it has been getting integrated into social justice organizing, it's largely been outside the United States, in places like Colombia and Egypt.