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• Unsilence Azerbaijan’s Donkey Bloggers!

  
  Human Rights Now - Amnesty International USA Blog — Authority: 133
  A satirical YouTube video showing a press conference by a blogger in a donkey costume was meant to make a point in ex-Soviet Azerbaijan. Instead, it got the activist and his associate behind bars. Now in jail and convicted of “hooliganism,” youth activists Emin Abdullayev and Adnan Hajizade hope that an appeals ...
  2 days ago

• Unsilence Azerbaijan’s Donkey Bloggers!

  
  Human Rights Now - Amnesty International USA Blog — Authority: 133
  A satirical YouTube video showing a press conference by a blogger in a donkey costume was meant to make a point in ex-Soviet Azerbaijan. Instead, it got the activist and his associate behind bars. Now in jail and convicted of “hooliganism,” youth activists Emin Abdullayev and Adnan Hajizade hope that an appeals ...
  2 days ago

• Unsilence Azerbaijan’s Donkey Bloggers!

  
  Human Rights Now - Amnesty International USA Blog — Authority: 133
  A satirical YouTube video showing a press conference by a blogger in a donkey costume was meant to make a point in ex-Soviet Azerbaijan. Instead, it got the activist and his associate behind bars. Now in jail and convicted of “hooliganism,” youth activists Emin Abdullayev and Adnan Hajizade hope that an appeals ...
  2 days ago

• “Digital” vs. “real”

  
  ::: Think Macro ::: — Authority: 106
  Evgeny Morozov started an interesting conversation on the webpages of the Prospect Magazine about the role of “new” media in civic activism under repressive regimes.  He is rather skeptical about the equation “internet=democracy” and provides a plethora of examples where relying on “new” media can ...
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• When Silence Is Golden

  
  The Agitator — Authority: 122
  I noticed this brief post on Social Media’s SmartBlog. It makes a hugely important point about social media. "It’s tempting to focus on social media as a pulpit for your own ideas. Who will you connect with? What will you say to them? How will you build those relationships into something tangible? But the fact ...
  1 week ago

• Evan Osnos: Top Ten China Myths of 2009

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 549
  On his New Yorker blog , Evan Osnos parses out ten myths about China that were in circulation this year, including: Chinese Web users have no impact on the government. Fact: In June, China unveiled plans to require all new personal computers to come with filtering software “Green Dam Youth Escort,” but an ...
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• Finding Red Balloons

  
  The Agitator — Authority: 122
  Here’s a fascinating Defense Department experiment that nonprofits can learn from. DoD offered a $40,000 prize to whomever was first to locate ten red balloons placed in various locations around the US … some in very obvious places, some not so obvious. The balloons were eight meters in diameter. The winning ...
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• Terrific Email Fundraising Tips

  
  The Agitator — Authority: 122
  I was going through some "saved" stuff and realized I hadn’t yet called your attention to this terrific compilation of email fundraising tips and resources from Joanne Fritz, nonprofit "guide" at About.com. Lots of good material here. And as Joanne says, email is not dead! But go ahead, Twitter this post if you ...
  2 weeks ago

• Not Until Your Mail Planning Is Done

  
  The Agitator — Authority: 122
  Here is a terrific article from Beth Kanter on trends she sees taking shape in the nonprofit social media world. Now, I do not want you to read her article until AFTER you are sure you’ve crossed all the "t’s" and dotted all the "i’s" on your year-end direct mail, email, and telemarketing appeals … to say ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hackers and Hacks: A Post-Mortem on PdF Europe in Barcelona

  
  Personal Democracy Forum — Authority: 435
  Im really pleased with how everything went at PdF Europes first conference in Barcelona. We had a great mix of political hacks and hackers from all over the Continent, and the conversations buzzing in the hallways before, during and after each session are the best proof that people were connecting to each other in all ...
  3 weeks ago

• 5 Trends Reshaping Nonprofit Sector

  
  The Agitator — Authority: 122
  Here’s some food for the brain if you have some spare time over the Thanksgiving holiday.  Agitator readers outside the US, set it aside for your next long weekend. You won’t raise more money tomorrow from reading this report, but it might help you make better sense of the context in which nonprofit fundraising, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Photos: Residents Protest Garbage Incinerator in Guangdong (Updated)

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 549
  Residents of Panyu, Guangdong, are protesting plans to build a garbage incinerator in their city, and the actions are being tweeted live at the hashtag #pylj . @ellachou is translating many of the tweets into English. Photos have been posted on flickr and Twitter : (by [BLT]FQX ) (”We Don’t Want to be ...
  3 weeks ago

• Slave rescuer Aaron Cohen interviewed in the Observer

  
  newsjiffy — Authority: 123
  Todays Observer magazine has a fascinating interview by Carole Cadwalladr with Aaron Cohen, the founder of the Abolish Slavery Coalition . Cohen, whose book Slave Hunter: One Mans Global Quest to Free Victims of Human Trafficking was published this June, has rescued children from sex slavery and child solider ...
  3 weeks ago

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