Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Just yesterday I read a tweet that called the #nonprofit twitter tag a “cavernous echo chamber.” Tags: guest blogging. Now don’t get me wrong, I love you people. I think you’re some of the most brilliant, passionate, tireless, amazing humans I’ve ever met. To be truthful, I’d rather hang out with you than just about anybody.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

is in conflict with (currently, Iran). Tags: Unusual Projects and Influences. The Waffle Shop team also run other projects out of the space, including the Conflict Kitchen --a take-out place that serves food from countries that the U.S. Chicago Underground Library (Chicago, IL). What non-traditional arts venues inspire you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

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. Tags: sxsw. A panel of experts will debate the pros & cons of couch potato activism. Submitted by Jacob Colker. I'll do another round up in the next week or so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

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. Tags: sxsw. A panel of experts will debate the pros & cons of couch potato activism. Submitted by Jacob Colker. Design and Development Powers for the Social Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

A Tweet this week on Iran and on the conventional news coverage there. Tags: engagement guest blogging. The Source is owned by commercial or political interests who increasingly use spin . The person is left helpless and alienated - This f eels like Tiananmen. They fight for democracy, we watch, they die, we change the channel.

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AUGUST 21, 2009

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. Tags: beth kanter NPTech sxsw. A panel of experts will debate the pros & cons of couch potato activism. Submitted by Jacob Colker.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2007

But by avoiding the now and focusing on a potential event, like oil shock, war with Iran, virtual consciousness, or any number of reasonable near-future events, museums can get away with a wider range of "imaginative" presentations. Tags: storytelling web2.0 usercontent game.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

. · Randi Zuckerberg from Facebook, who talked about how social networks are being used for social change, particularly as an organizing tool for local revolutions such as those in Columbia and Iran. Tags: guest blogging. Facebook now has 200M users, the majority of whom are outside of the US.

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