Hold Fast

I was shocked to discover that Mark Penn’s book Microtrends has its own Facebook application. Here’s what it does: One percent of the nation can make or break a business, tip an election, or start a social movement. Which 1% Are You? Take the Microtrends quiz to find out and compare results with friends. You’ll [...]

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The Entertain Consumers Association, which is focused on video game consumers issues, gets in the net neutrality fight. I’m ver glad to see the coalition working for net neutrality continue to expand, as it’s a sign that people are recognizing that it is not a fringe issue that only affects a few people, but something [...]

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The Observers, a publication of France 24 TV, has documented Yahoo! China and MSN posting banner ads and prominent photos of Tibetans the Chinese government have identified as “most wanted” in connection to recent protests inside Tibet. Yahoo! China pasted a “most wanted” poster across its homepage today in aid of the police’s witch-hunt for [...]

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For those of you who found the recent BBC and Washington Post articles about Chinese cyber attacks on Tibetan support groups interesting, I recommend this post by Allan Benamer of the Non-Profit Tech Blog. It’s a somewhat more technical look at what these attacks consist of, how they’ve been designed to allude detection, and what [...]

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The Editors on the energy crisis and global warming: People, listen: reducing the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere?  Obtaining all the energy we need directly from sunlight?  These are the kinds of insurmountable engineering challenges overcome every day by plants.  Plants.  And not just those clever trees or those cunning shrubberies, mind you – [...]

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There’s been a number of stories recently about the potential for telecom companies to begin filtering all internet content to search for copyright violations, a move that would assist the entertainment industry police digital piracy. Early indication was that AT&T and others would also be filtering content for illegal or immoral material. In short, it’s [...]

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Youth vote and tech guru Mike Connery has posted his own post mortem on the Facebook Causes Giving Challenge at techPresident (and his own blog, Future Majority). I agree with Connery’s conclusion: Most pertinent to youth organizers, this contest and any future iterations provides a model for organizational development that can at least begin overcome [...]

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The Challenge is over and Students for a Free Tibet came up just short. 4,522 individuals donated to SFT at least once over the course of 50 days. Remarkably, over 2,500 of those donations came in the final 24 hours. Even more remarkably, SFT received between 500-600 donations in the final hour, a number that [...]

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This is incredible. In the last 23 hours, Students for a Free Tibet has had at least a 100% increase in their total number of donors in the Facebook Causes Giving Challenge. It took 49 days to find the first 1,943 donors. The next 2,082 were found in just over twenty-three hours. This is remarkable, [...]

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Facebook Causes has been running a giving challenge over the last 49 days. The contest, sponsored by The Case Foundation, has been phenomenally interesting to watch. The challenge is simple: what Facebook cause can collect the donations from the most unique individuals over the course of 50 days. There are smaller contests for you can [...]

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