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Cyber Village’s “Spotlight on Success”

I was on Cyber Village’s  “Spotlight on Success” last week with host Rob Thrasher talking about social media, a new gig, and a little digital activism.

2010 Predictions for digital technology, social media and other

I posted a few of my marketing predictions over at Other Side Group, but here’s another set that includes digital activism and other goodies.

Location-based digital technology use will give way to several major advances in the fields of citizen journalism and digital activism.  Patrick will agree with me – there will be a major increase [...]

I’ll be on HubSpot TV on Friday, talking about digital activism

I’ll be the guest on this week’s HubSpot TV.  You can live stream the event (see the site for details), or you can come down to the offices in Cambridge for some chit chat and good food from the Lansdowne Pub.

I’ll be talk about topics of digital activism and some of the work I do [...]

DigiActive Policy Memo to the US Helsinki Commission

Policy Memo for the US Helsinki Commission: In the digital age, where a “good” is a string of code that can be delivered anywhere in the world with the click of a mouse, even today’s smart sanctions are not smart enough. By preventing access to blogging platforms, social networks, and other types of new media, current embargo policies harm the very activists who are furthering our common goals of democracy promotion, while leaving authoritarian governments free to spread propaganda through a range of state-controlled media outlets.

We’ve got a title for our digital activism book

Our book has a title.

Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change

Small update, but it’s exciting nonetheless!

New search capabilities for Twitter: Hope it’s not all business as usual!

At long last, Twitter is allowing for (at least a little) location-aware

capabilities.

Image via CrunchBase

“Developers will be able to access this new geolocation feature early which means it will most likely be available on your app of choice before it is available on Twitter’s Web site. Later, we will add it to our mobile Web [...]

Digital Activism Book: Chapter Abstract

I’m in the last stages of writing a chapter for a book on Digital Activism that’s being written by a really great group of colleagues, such as Patrick Meier, Gaurav Mishra, Mary Joyce, and Tim Hwang (among others).  I thought I’d lay out my outline for now, as I’m working through it.

Please let me know [...]

DigiActive: R@D Digital Activism Survey

Our goal in creating this survey was to collect the first international demographic data on the new group we call “digital activists”: people who use digital technology as part of grassroots campaigns for social and political change.

Pop!Tech post: DigiActive and social tools for social change

A write up on digital activism and DigiActive as an organization.

In recent months, there’s been a marked increase in the mentions of how social media tools have been used around the world to enhance social activism either on a small scale, such as campaigning to free locally-jailed individuals, as was the case with “Free Jestina [...]

DigiActive Post: Moldovan Protests – Was it really a “Twitter Revolution”?

A synopsis of the social media impact on the protests in Moldova that occurred in early April 2009.

source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/creepysleepy/3429118253/

Since Tuesday’s protests and riots in the Moldovan capital Chisinau, there has been much analysis on how this group of protesters was formed.  Initial reports focused primarily on the use of Twitter, while paying scant [...]