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Social Media for Good and Evil, Strong and Weak Ties, Online/Offline,and Orgs and Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rather than comparing Woolworth sit-ins to the much-hyped Twitter Revolution, finding the latter coming up wanting, and stopping there, Gladwell might have given some space in the New Yorker to dig a little deeper to find examples of folks using technology to organize in intriguing, successful ways. She Jillian York’s critique.

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Brokrete wants to be the ‘Shopify of construction’, raises $3M seed led by Xploration Capital

TechCrunch

Jordan Latourelle, the company’s founder and CEO said: “Construction today is a largely offline, $1.2 Suppliers get an iOS and Android app for e-commerce to receive offline orders from more “traditional” customers. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt.

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New on SSIR: First and Foremost Know Your Community

Amy Sample Ward

The piece is reposted below: Have we replicated our offline social dynamics and barriers online? If we truly are reproducing our offline social divides online, then it’s further proof that the central part of your social media strategy needs to be focused on your audience. I believe we have, and so does Danah Boyd.

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YouTube took down Michael Moore’s film attacking renewable energy

The Verge

The longer it stays offline, the better for the amazing work that the environmental movement has been doing in the last 10 years,” says Liam Young, who co-founded the studio that collaborated with Smith on Rare Earthenware. The film has already sown distrust within environmental circles. “I org, wrote in Rolling Stone.

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Apple’s AI plan: a thousand small conveniences

The Verge

Fail to hype up machine learning or neural networks when unveiling a new product, and you might as well be hawking hand-cranked calculators. This works completely offline, thanks to on-device machine learning. Among the new AI features Apple announced at WWDC is hand washing detection for the Apple Watch. Image: Apple. Translate app.

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Reflections from Mashable Summer of Social Good Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Was it all hype? . The morning included a speech by Kari Dunn Saratovsky who talked offline/online connections as well as some of the challenges that charities face such as cause fatigue and slacktivism. . Next was the "Social Media for Social Good" segment.

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Facebook Changes for Organization Pages: Focus On Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While the specific tactics and techniques for a tool may change, the concepts generally hold constant. Over the years, as I have watched Facebook roll out features and changes, it seems takes a predictable pattern: the big announcement, hype, backlash, more tweaks to the platform, experiments by users/organizations, and learning what works.

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