Saturday, December 25th, 2010 03:07 pm GMT -5 in Content, News Briefs, Tips and Tricks by Reda Cherif
At the same time that the Internet grows, it Achilles’ Heel gets more exposed too. Therefore, the fact that the Internet is growing is neither good news, nor bad news. That’s purely factual.
Tags: blogs, communication, data management, google, internet, media, open source, wikileaks
Monday, December 13th, 2010 12:28 pm GMT -5 in Content by Erika Whillas
What does Purpose do? Creates powerful movements that impact the political process and solve global problems.
Tags: activism, communication, media, mobilization, social media, social networks, technology
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010 01:32 am GMT -5 in Content, Tubes by Bianca Wilson
U.S. diplomats praise the ability of mobile technology to fight poverty and fund a youth empowerment program to advance it.
Tags: africa, communication, mobile phones, politics, technology
Monday, December 6th, 2010 09:03 am GMT -5 in Content, News Briefs, Tips and Tricks by Reda Cherif
Logically speaking, if Wikileaks is a criminal organization, then the New York Times, El Pais, Der Spiegel, Le Monde and The Guardian are too (they have been working with criminals) and should be blamed for complicity.
Tags: advocacy, blogs, china, communication, internet, journalism, media, New York Times, open source, politics, social media, transparency, wikileaks
Sunday, December 5th, 2010 11:57 am GMT -5 in Code, Content by Gabrielle Tang
A new open-source social networking platform, Diaspora, gives an alternative to Facebook for those who value their privacy.
Tags: communication, consumers, diaspora, facebook, internet, news, open source, privacy, social network
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010 03:08 pm GMT -5 in Content, News Briefs, Tubes by Reda Cherif
Aware that Islam is the most volcanic taboo in Morocco’s society, M.A.L.Is did not choose provocation deliberately. What they were bent on doing was to act as the mirror of “the provocative contradictions of Morocco’s social, religious and institutional fabric.”
Tags: activism, advocacy, africa, blogs, censorship, communication, facebook, internet, journalism, media, politics, religion, social media, social networks, transparency
Monday, November 29th, 2010 11:47 am GMT -5 in Content by Reda Cherif
Ask children in rural Kenya working with their parents in community fields what their hobbies are, I’m not sure you’d get answers such as “photo”, “horse-riding”,”bird watching”.
Tags: africa, communication, data management, development, facebook, imperialism, internet, media, numeric divide, social media, social networks
Monday, November 15th, 2010 12:23 pm GMT -5 in Content by Bianca Wilson
By analyzing past successes and listening to its audience, the IRC has developed a particularly effective web strategy. Nonprofits seeking to increase their online presence can take some pointers from the IRC’s best practices.
Tags: branding, communication, crowdsourcing, facebook, nonprofit, social media, social networks, twitter
Monday, November 8th, 2010 11:57 pm GMT -5 in Content, News Briefs, Tubes by Reda Cherif
The first issue of the magazine, which was posted in July 2010, clearly announced the type of target the Jihadi editors were looking for: provide bomb instructions and offer English translation of Osama Bin-Laden speeches to young American and British readers.
Tags: al-qaeda, blogs, branding, communication, internet, Jihad, marketing, media, social media, social networks, terrorism
Monday, November 8th, 2010 09:45 am GMT -5 in Content, News Briefs, Tubes by Gabrielle Tang
RockMelt offers a completely new way to browse the web now, integrating your social networks to your browsing experience.
Tags: browser, chrome, communication, facebook, firefox, google, internet, marc andreesen, mosaic, mountain view, mozilla, open source, rockmelt, search, social media, social networks, twitter, web, youtube