Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

My friend, Manny Hernandez, founder of Tuiabetes Community and author of Ning for Dummies, let me know that today, November 14 is World Diabetes Day. Remember the sea of green avatars last summer in support of the Iran ? What do you think? What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Geoff Livingston invited me to keynote the conference along with Shel Israel , author of Twitterville. This made think of whether trust is only built from knowing someone offline or not. The context at Blogpotomac was the question, "Did turning your Twitter avatar green in support of the Iraniian protests" really mean anything.

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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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