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Your city doesn’t have a startup community? Start one!

The Next Web

After all, a great startup community can grow anywhere — from the buzzing streets of New York City to sleepy rural Iowa. The Biggest Little City campaign turned startup success stories into a stronger community where new businesses can flourish. “I I will say that organic growth is the most sustainable,” Nate says. “A

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Thank You Steve Dembo! Donor #18

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I will be writing a personal thank you note to every single one of the 81 donors who generously contributed to the campaign to send two Cambodian young people to college. Not only did Steve contribute to my campaign, but he was inspired to launch his own campaign to support Habitat for Humanity. Thank you Steve Dembo!

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » O-Bama, O-Bama, O-Bama

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A Black guy wins the Iowa caucus. Whether he goes on to win the nomination and becomes president or not, the fact that Barack Obama won in Iowa, a 95% white state, says something about the ability of Americans, especially younger Americans, to put race aside. I see a campaign that will be studied for years to come. Coincidence?

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The 2010 NTC by the Numbers

NTEN

Judging by the 7,034 views of the 09NTC Scholarship campaign ( Holly's remake of Beyonce's Single Ladies video ), I've concluded that spandex is 12 times more interesting to our community than muppets. . The session with the most tweets ( 398) was The Networked Nonprofit: Using Social Media to Power Social Networks for Change.

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Deplatforming Trump didn’t work

The Verge

To tech determinists, who believe that social networks uniquely enabled Trump’s rise and were among the primary sources of his power, the past 11 months offered us an imperfect test of that hypothesis. He makes frequent cable TV appearances, and recently held a rally in Iowa. his power has arguably only increased.

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It’s (still) time to end ‘Trending’ on Twitter

The Verge

In August 2019, after the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his jail cell, conspiracy theories about what had happened ran rampant on social networks. More recently, QAnon adherents took over the hashtag #SaveTheChildren as part of a campaign to falsely link celebrities to child trafficking.

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