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Using Twitter to Build a Community and Recruit Volunteers

Amy Sample Ward

Journalists using social media in Egypt. . $100,000 in 3 Days: Interview about #TeamAutism. Social media in disaster response. National Theatre screws up, what we can learn from mistakes. American Red Cross Twitter Mistakes and Fundraising. Atlanta Councilman chooses Twitter. Trimet misses the bus on social media. Twitter for fundraising.

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Great reads from around the web on September 19th

Amy Sample Ward

The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Visualizing Prominent Information Flows during the Tunisia and Egypt Revolutions – This is a very cool visualization from danah boyd pulling together twitter accounts and displaying tweets, reactions, and much more.

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Building a Global Library

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A tech guy from Egypt was the standout moment for me so far. I was attending a session organized by the library association, IFLA, and he got up and talked about how Egypt does not have a culture of reading. His point was the 5 million Internet users in Egypt are the people who do read.

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Spotlight on Social Media, Crowdsourced Translation, Egyptian Protests and Diplomacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From Crisis Mapping Egypt: Collection of Maps. The New York Times reported on the use of social media and protests suggesting that Egypt’s government was afraid of the power of social networking tools. The #jan25 Twitter hashtag also has examples of the State Department’s Arab Twitter Diplomacy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

And all this is on top of Martus work we're actively engaged with in Kenya, Nigeria and Egypt. Susan Bazilli, an international human rights attorney, recently brought Martus to the attention of the women's rights community in Africa, through a posting to the Women's Information Technology Transfer site.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There's more in the press release, and we will be expanding our efforts in Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt and Algeria. We're just announcing this project. State has an active program tracking the state of human rights around the world. We are already working on the translations of Martus into Arabic and French.

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Bookshare without Borders: #3/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our collection includes children’s books from Scholastic, contemporary books from Arab Scientific Publishers in Lebanon and literary books from the public domain from Kotobarabia in Egypt.