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Leveraging Technology to Respond to Global Crises

Cloud 4 Good

CARE’s humanitarian efforts inside Ukraine have piqued some interest from corporate sponsors looking at what they can do next in countries like Poland, the Czech Republic, and Moldova – all places where the refugee crisis may linger.

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Great reads from around the web on April 14th

Amy Sample Ward

You've come to the right place. " The DigiActive Guide to Twitter for Activism | DigiActive.org - "Following the recent protests in Moldova, the value of Twitter as a tool for digital activism is more prominent than ever. If you like visualizing inforamation and maps, check it out.

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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

Once this is in place, it is important to understand how the tool can or can't be use to reach that goal, what the limitations are, and how to take a "multi-channel" approach. 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

Where it has been getting integrated into social justice organizing, it's largely been outside the United States, in places like Colombia and Egypt. Which is not to diminish the hard work of social justice organizers in Moldova. Mad props to them.)

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Diversify Your Year-End Campaigns: How To Be Mindful And Inclusive Of Cultural Traditions

Bloomerang

Día de los Muertos is rooted in the Catholic All Saints Day, which takes place on November 1st, but has taken on an afterlife of its own. It takes place in the ten days before Santa, or Papa Noel, arrives and commemorates the journey Mary and Joseph make to arrive in Bethlehem in the nativity story. Nicholas Day.

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Mark Pesce at CUA09 - Think Like a Cloud, Make a Storm, Kill the Tower!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Where they lose grasp of that knowledge, that’s the space where coups, palace revolutions and popular revolts take place. Ethan Zuckerman recently did an analysis of tweets from Moldova and found this to be true. He describes the power shift that the cloud presents and it's burden of "always on."

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