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A Few Twitter Campaigning Tips

We’re in the midst of an attempt to get the #Gaza hashtag to trend on Twitter (if you don’t know what that means, let me Google that for you), and are learning bit by bit what doesn’t work (and of course, what does).  Twitter is an ever-changing platform, so what mattered one year ago may […]

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The Role of Global Voices

By now you might have seen David Sasaki’s retrospective about Global Voices,  or Rebecca MacKinnon’s post about GV, five years in.  Maybe you’re aware that GV is celebrating its fifth anniversary.  Anyway, now you are! I joined Global Voices in April 2007, about two years and 8 months ago.  As I explain in this video […]

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The Inimitable Arab Bloggers

Perhaps you’ve wondered about my bit of a blogging hiatus: I spent December 7-13 in Beirut for the second annual Arab Bloggers Workshop. The workshop, sponsored by The Heinrich Böll Foundation and Global Voices Online, with support from HIVOS and the Open Society Institute, brought together about 80 of the most amazing bloggers from around […]