Last year, I connected with Stephanie Rudat over a year ago when we were both named on a list of 11 Twitter Activists You Should Be Following. (It is also how I met Mark Horvath, an activist for homelessness). Stephanie is the founder of the Alliance of Youth Movements.… Read More
I’ve been closely following the use of social media for activism the Arab world given the project I’m about to begin work on at the end of the February. Jillian York, a US-based blogger who free expression, politics, and the Internet, with particular focus on the Arab world and also write for Global Voices (see their special coverage of the Egyptian protests here.… Read More
Note from Beth: I’ve been looking for good examples of nonprofit mobile strategies. I had to look no further than the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch Program. With 75% of the world’s fisheries are fished to capacity, or overfished, the fish we order in restaurants or pick up at the grocery store for dinner, has the power to make this situation worse, or improve it.
Two weeks ago, the social media maven from the National Wildlife Federation, Danielle Brigida, tweeted the above photo showing how they were mapping one of their networks with one of my favorite low tech tools: sticky notes. This got my attention because I was designing a Networked Nonprofit workshop for E-Mediat and will incorporate a network mapping exercise. … Read More
Shawn Ahmed, Free Agent and founder of the Uncultured Project, has been invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he will meet with business leaders and heads of state. This year, Shawn’s video was selected from over 100 covering a wide range of topics and debates, to participate in the meetings. … Read More
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