Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Taking action for social change without lifting a finger. 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. How do you use the latest technologies to build active networks and roadmaps for action?

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Social Media Cancer Jordan Kiva 79

NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Taking action for social change without lifting a finger. 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. How do you use the latest technologies to build active networks and roadmaps for action?

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Social Media Nonprofit Jordan Cancer 67

Forum One

MAY 27, 2009

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Influence Social Media Internet Web 50

Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2007

On an early game week, week 14 , I counted over 35 player-submitted photos, stories, and missions (actions to try to address the crisis). Alternate reality can encourage players to take action in their real lives. When I saw An Inconvenient Truth , I was struck by Gore's framing of climate change as a "moral issue."

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Game Museum Alternative Iran 20

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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Iran Technology China Sri Lanka 152

EveryAction

AUGUST 28, 2017

In response to the Supreme Court’s decision to temporarily grant the Trump administration's request to reinstate portions of its travel ban (blocking people from six countries - Iran, Yemen, Sudan, Syria, Libya and Somalia - from entering the United States), CARE reignited their #BetterThanTheBan campaign. Take Action |. Take Action.

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International Campaign Charity Libya 100

Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

I grew up in Iraq during Saddam's time, and during the time in which we had the war with Iran. Saving ourselves is part of saving humanity and saving the world, I feel, especially with the discussion of women because it is such a global issue. It is not a third world issue or a conflict issue.

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International Interview Bosnia Congo 40

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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

The lack of diversity was a fact not lost on some speakers, who issued an invitation for any grassroots communities of color to attend next year, although whether or not they meant for free was unclear. and disconcertingly white. Facebook now has 200M users, the majority of whom are outside of the US.

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Grant Personal Reflection New York City 90