Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2008

Flying down the Persian Gulf, alongside Iran's coast, we arrived in Dubai. It seemed ironic, to be encased in this latest and most luxurious flying conveyance, drinking fine wine and eating good food, while Iraqis and Americans are still dying and struggling to bring peace to that troubled land.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Remember the sea of green avatars last summer in support of the Iran ? Two years later, changing your Twitter icon in support of a cause (even though some call this " slacktivism "), is a techniques being used. There are tools now to make it easy for supporters to change their avatars, although you don't get the range of self-expression.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2009

Social Networks Spread Iranian Defiance Online - NYTimes.com - Watching the #IranElection hashtag stream on Twitter, more and more videos on YouTube and the BBC, and the way citizens create and the global networks share updates about the reality of post-election mayhem in Iran has distracted me from work and ignited many conversations with friends (..)

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Forum One

JUNE 16, 2009

Protest Iran Election. Katrin Verclas' Twitterfeed - actively amplifying the news out of Iran. Internet Graphs: Internet usage trends on Twitter show the consistency and growth of the Iran Election movement. Right now the world is watching the next level of emergent social media and citizen engagement. Twitter: #iranelection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

In online discussions with nonprofit techies, Megan Keane pointed to the loss of an anti-censorship tool in places like Iran, and Nancy Schwartz noted in an online discussion, “this is a kick to independent content publishing, not just convenience on the readers side.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2023

the #MeToo movement in Asia , reproductive rights activism in Honduras , and the ongoing fight for women’s equality in Iran. In addition, there is increased global awareness of women’s issues such as reproductive rights in the U.S., What does this mean for grantmakers and philanthropy as a whole?

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Care2

MARCH 10, 2010

2009 Iran Election: Women's Revolution? The panel will review results from a recently completed research project investigating social media fundraising strategies specifically supporting events. PRESENTERS Brooke McMillan, Stacey Monk, Frank Barry, Donna Wilkins and Jodie Kolkowski. Twitter Revolution? March 14 at 11:00 AM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Debbas who was in Iran at the time, risking his life said, "It helped because I didn't want to die anonymously and we can discredit raising awareness.". Slacktivism, if you don't know , is the pejorative term describing, in the words of Barbara Mikkelson , ".the

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

I want you, whether you’re in the Congo or Darfur or if you’re in Iran or if you’re in Tanzania, Kosovo…you shoot that story like it’s your mother, your brother, your sister, your father and your cousin and you tell that in that way because that’s actually the road, I think, to not only clarity and truth and understanding.

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Care2

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Recent events in Iran and India showed Twitter's ability to build a groundswell and deploy rapid response messaging, albeit in a much less urgent sense in holding rallies and actions related to climate change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Digital Protests This session will explore the role that social media plays in protests, through the lens of recent events like Iran and the American health care debate. A panel of experts will debate the pros & cons of couch potato activism. Submitted by Jacob Colker.

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Care2

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Recent events in Iran and India showed Twitter's ability to build a groundswell and deploy rapid response messaging, albeit in a much less urgent sense in holding rallies and actions related to climate change.

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 17, 2009

Mobile Citizen Journalism: The Phone As Global Equalizer « MobileBehavior: "iran-mobile-citizenThe Iranian crisis put Twitter in the spotlight as an organizational tool showcasing how the online world could be used to communicate and unite people, despite government censorship.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Digital Protests This session will explore the role that social media plays in protests, through the lens of recent events like Iran and the American health care debate. A panel of experts will debate the pros & cons of couch potato activism. Submitted by Jacob Colker.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

is in conflict with (currently, Iran). The Waffle Shop team also run other projects out of the space, including the Conflict Kitchen --a take-out place that serves food from countries that the U.S. Chicago Underground Library (Chicago, IL).

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AFP Blog

JULY 13, 2009

From YouTube’s founding in 2005 to the documentation of post-election turmoil in Iran, the progress video on the web has been remarkable in just a few short year. JoeTrippi.com » Blog Archive » The Rise of Web Video: "What’s next for web video? For more perspective, the NYT has a look, in “Rise of Web Video, Beyond 2-Minute Clips” -".

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Digital Protests This session will explore the role that social media plays in protests, through the lens of recent events like Iran and the American health care debate. A panel of experts will debate the pros & cons of couch potato activism. Submitted by Jacob Colker.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 29, 2016

This Challenge is void in Cuba, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, and all countries under sanction by the U.S. This Challenge is void in the U.S. government (" U.S. Embargo Countries "). Submission Restrictions. (a) a) In General.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

In addition to Syria and Iraq, these are Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, and the Azerbaijani exclave: Nakhchivan. (If If you knew all eight, go buy yourself a cookie!).

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. There are now 2.4 billion Internet users around the world, and Internet growth continues to be brisk, especially in developing countries.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2009

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2007

But by avoiding the now and focusing on a potential event, like oil shock, war with Iran, virtual consciousness, or any number of reasonable near-future events, museums can get away with a wider range of "imaginative" presentations. And I immediately considered that that argument is not one which museums could easily present.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

I grew up in Iraq during Saddam's time, and during the time in which we had the war with Iran. On the one hand, the formal way to answer this question would be: I was 20 when I arrived in the U.S.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 28, 2022

Participants also stopped along the walk to talk about the Davos Codes program and its Climate Action Lab ; the specific impacts these programs have had, such as new plastic recycling laws and bans on fireworks; and taking the program global to San Francisco, Tokyo, and Bangalore.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2017

This Sweepstakes is void for organizations in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria ("U.S. Embargo Countries"). Important warning for persons outside the U.S. and Canada (who do not live in the U.S. Embargo Countries): Sponsor is offering this Sweepstakes from the State of California, U.S.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2015

In 2013, he publically confronted Iran's foreign minister, Mohamed Zarif, in New York demanding the release of political prisoner Majid Tavakoli. It caused a social media furor, and the Iranian government released Tavakoli for a time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

A Tweet this week on Iran and on the conventional news coverage there. The Source is owned by commercial or political interests who increasingly use spin . The person is left helpless and alienated - This f eels like Tiananmen. They fight for democracy, we watch, they die, we change the channel. Some intuitively know and use the new model.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

Born in Iran and at age 3 moved to Canada; now in NYC. "I Connecting with Millennials Youngest female B-Corp founder: How Azita got here Starting Lovesocial was an accident. Azita didn''t grow up thinking she would start a digital media agency (because that didn''t exist). That changed when I got to Canada." "As

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

That ethos continued until the last three years or so with issues in Burma, Iran, and China. In Iran we’ve seen it used to get out information and resist censorship but have also seen it used by the government to alter a mobile phone system and monitoring calls. Technology is amoral – it doesn’t care.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

Recent events in Burma in 2007 and Iran in 2009 and even the US in 2010 reveal that governments can easily comb activists’ footage online and seek out protesters and citizens for arrest, persecution or worse. The ability to stream video directly from a mobile phone (i.e.

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Care2

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Women in Iran and protestors on Wall Street think so. During the Iran protests in February of 2011, a woman who was raped, sexually assaulted and beaten once she was identified as a "rioter" simply for voting, had no voice and little way to speak out about her experience. Social media may be changing that across the globe.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 28, 2017

In response to the Supreme Court’s decision to temporarily grant the Trump administration's request to reinstate portions of its travel ban (blocking people from six countries - Iran, Yemen, Sudan, Syria, Libya and Somalia - from entering the United States), CARE reignited their #BetterThanTheBan campaign.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 18, 2010

We see the tragic consequences when fear and hatred win out over the Golden Rule in places like the Middle East, Iran, North Korea, Darfur, Zimbabwe, and Myanmar. As the world grows smaller, as we get to know each other, our 50,000 year old fear and hatred of others is bumping up against 50,000 years of the Golden Rule.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Hungary and Iran. Democratic backsliding and restrictive laws will pose challenges to nonprofits operations and the safety of their beneficiaries. We see restrictions playing out in Paraguay and the United States. In Uganda and Myanmar. It is not just the changing legal landscape affecting organizations.

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Care2

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Women in Iran and protestors on Wall Street think so. During the Iran protests in February of 2011, a woman who was raped, sexually assaulted and beaten once she was identified as a "rioter" simply for voting, had no voice and little way to speak out about her experience. Social media may be changing that across the globe.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

There are people in positions of power in places like Iran and Washington, D.C. That's really what it is about. It's about the belief system. The next belief system is a spirituality that loves science. who have a spirituality that rejects science. The spirituality of this green economy movement embraces science. It loves science.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

. · 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. Facebook now has 200M users, the majority of whom are outside of the US.

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