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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While they're scrambling to figure out "new media" alternate entities spring up around them that exist only online. 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. Submitted by Dave Cohn.

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Last Chance to Vote for Nonprofit SXSW Panels: Closes September 4th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While they're scrambling to figure out "new media" alternate entities spring up around them that exist only online. 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. Submitted by Dave Cohn.

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Guest Post: Beth Kanter's SXSWi Nonprofit Panel Roundup

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While they're scrambling to figure out "new media" alternate entities spring up around them that exist only online. 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. Submitted by Dave Cohn.

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Game Friday: The Aftermath of the ARG World Without Oil

Museum 2.0

The beauty of WWO's oil shock is the extent to which oil scarcity is already considered an issue that spans the personal, political, financial, and scientific, and WWO, recognizing this, allowed players to engage on the levels most compelling to them. Alternate reality can encourage players to take action in their real lives.

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Adobe Creative Cloud Giveaway for Nonprofits at 17NTC!

Tech Soup

This Sweepstakes is void for organizations in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria ("U.S. Sponsor shall have the right to select alternate winner(s) if Sponsor determines in its sole discretion that the delivery of winning prize(s) results in an unreasonably burdensome compliance requirements under local law.

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

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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