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Guest Post by Heather McLeod Grant: Reflections on the Personal Democracy Forum

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

. · Randi Zuckerberg from Facebook, who talked about how social networks are being used for social change, particularly as an organizing tool for local revolutions such as those in Columbia and Iran. Everyone who has Twitter now has a global distribution network.” Facebook now has 200M users, the majority of whom are outside of the US.

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Guest Post by Stacey Monk: Dogooders Won’t Change the World (Alone)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There’s these kids sitting at the other lunch tables in our global cafeteria. But I think it’s also the road to really fully becoming global.” The 140 Characters conference is being re-broadcast in its entirety Monday, 6/29 and Tuesday, 6/30. To be truthful, I’d rather hang out with you than just about anybody.

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5G coronavirus conspiracy theorists are endangering the workers who keep networks running

The Verge

Since the UK entered lockdown in March, engineers like Qureshi had unwillingly found themselves on the front line of a strange global crusade. Any point he brought up would be shot down by the woman’s self-fulfilling rationalization that Qureshi was part of a global conspiracy. Photo by James Vincent / The Verge.

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Jon Husband, Guest Post: The New Realities of Engagement – Stories That Drive Action Planning and Implementation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A Tweet this week on Iran and on the conventional news coverage there. Each story enters a Sense Making System (a web service and software provided by Cognitive Edge, a global network of practitioners dedicated to helping create meaning and sense in complex situations). We have all been raised in the latter model and know no other.

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Adobe Creative Cloud Giveaway for Nonprofits at 17NTC!

Tech Soup

Sponsored by TechSoup Global, 435 Brannan St., This Sweepstakes is void for organizations in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria ("U.S. Participants must be 18 or older to participate. Sweepstakes Terms and Conditions (Long). The TechSoup 17 NTC Social Media Sweepstakes Terms and Conditions. "Sponsor").

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How AI Takeover Might Happen in 2 Years

The AI Alignment Forum

Top personnel from the NSA and US cyber command collaborate with OpenEye to retrofit a semblance of security for U3s weights before senior leaders in China, Russia, Israel, North Korea, or Iran realize just how valuable OpenEyes software has become. Broadcasters say this is not like COVID-19. 20% of the global population is now dead.

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Why Trump’s Truth Social may not survive the hype

The Verge

Here are Bryan Pietsch and Jeff Stein in the Washington Post : The app says it is “America’s ‘Big Tent’ social media platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating against political ideology.” One, they are marketed as social networks, but they operate like broadcast networks.

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