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Great reads from around the web on April 14th

Amy Sample Ward

Map it, mash it up and otherwise make use of this unparalleled online resource. " 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. Just please credit CRP for the data.)"

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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

Resources: Colin Delaney, Strategy or Tool, On the Metaphysics of Twitter Alan Rosenblatt, Is Twitter a Strategy? And, while it may be an argument about semantics, it further illustrates this tension. The rest of the guide is a great basic primer on getting started with Twitter.

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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

The cloud isn’t formally organized, pools its information resources, and has no center of power. Ethan Zuckerman recently did an analysis of tweets from Moldova and found this to be true. The tower seeks to organize everything in hierarchies, control information flows, and keep the power heading from bottom to top.

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