Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 17, 2009
As the latest technology allows people to “engage” from their computers/phones rather than getting their hands dirty IRL, will this impact the future of volunteerism? 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.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 3, 2009
As the latest technology allows people to “engage” from their computers/phones rather than getting their hands dirty IRL, will this impact the future of volunteerism? 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.
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NTEN
AUGUST 21, 2009
As the latest technology allows people to “engage” from their computers/phones rather than getting their hands dirty IRL, will this impact the future of volunteerism? 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.
Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 22, 2010
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.
Tech Soup
JUNE 24, 2013
I’ll review Mary Meeker and Liang Wu’s annual report on the Internet, a new NTEN report on nonprofit technology assistance providers, Facebook’s new guidelines for nonprofits and causes, charities losing control of Hactivism, Google’s new micro-donation app, and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month.
Care2
OCTOBER 3, 2011
Women in Iran and protestors on Wall Street think so. During the Iran protests in February of 2011, a woman who was raped, sexually assaulted and beaten once she was identified as a "rioter" simply for voting, had no voice and little way to speak out about her experience. Social media may be changing that across the globe.
Have Fun - Do Good
JANUARY 6, 2007
I work really long hours; I'm on the Internet all the time, I'm writing all the time, I'm talking to people on the phone all the time, and I can't keep track of it. There are people in positions of power in places like Iran and Washington, D.C. I do this seven days a week. That's really what it is about. It loves science.
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