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E-Mediat Networking Conference at the Dead Sea, Jordan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Then we walked with her into the conference room as they played the National Anthem of Jordan. One of my favorite parts was facilitation a small group discussion on managing information overload in an age of distractions. I’ve been working on this project for more than year. I told the NGOs were “fabulous.”

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Recreational drones banned in United Arab Emirates after oil facility attack

The Verge

The attacks were claimed by the Islamist, Iran-backed Houthi rebel group, which currently controls large portions of nearby Yemen and is fighting a coalition of forces supported by Arab countries including the UAE. The UAE withdrew its forces from Yemen in 2019, but continues to supply and train local militia opposed to the Houthi.

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How to Influence the Conversation Around Your Next Campaign

Connection Cafe

For example, United to End Genocide (UEG) used social listening to inform their decision on when to ramp up their campaign efforts in Yemen last year. Noticing an uptick in mentions of Yemen by supporters, they responded in an incredibly effective and practical way that resulted in thousands of mentions of the campaign.

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National Security Council adds Gmail to its list of bad decisions

Engadget

The Washington Post reports that members of the White House's National Security Council have used personal Gmail accounts to conduct government business. And while Signal is a more secure option than a public email client, even the encrypted messaging platform can be exploited, as the Pentagon warned its own team last week.

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The government’s Signal leak is a national security nightmare, but the memes are great

Mashable Tech

The Trump administration accidentally added a journalist to a not-so-secret Signal group chat to discuss imminent military plans. The Atlantic 's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was added to a Signal group chat with several apparent U.S. airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, and then the airstrikes took place.

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As Top Officials Were Messaging a Group Text About Bomb Plans, Their Passwords Were Leaked Online

Futurism

We're on week two of the fallout from the Signal group chat scandal and apparently, there's a lot more where that came from. That same address was contained in at least ten leaked data caches that also included a partial telephone number purportedly linked to a WhatsApp and Signal account for the director of national intelligence.

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Jon Stewart roasts Trump cabinet for leaking its own military plans via group chat

Mashable Tech

It sounds like the kind of thing that would only happen in a political comedy show, but the Trump administration really did leak military plans to The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg by mistakenly adding him to a group chat. He said that in a group chat. A group chat with a journalist." Oopsie poopsie!"

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