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Social media activism

By Angelo Fernando on September 28th, 2007 In Social Media

If you’ve been a Business 2.0 reader, and I know many readers of this blog are, you probably know that the much loved magazine is being shuttered. That, despite a Facebook group that was formed several months ago by loyal readers to make Time Inc. reconsider.

Today I had an invitation to join another Facebook group calling itself Red Shirt for Burma. It is protesting the harrowing incidents going on right now in Myanmar. The RedShirt for Burma group has already garnered 1,360 members.

Facebook activism works - sometimes. Beyond Facebook, blogs are a natural outlet for news and activism. Some are shut down as Mathew Ingram reports from The Globe and the Mail in Toronto. Someone is uploading pictures to a blog even today.

The new rules being written, scratched, and re-written in social media bears close watching. If you’re so inclined, and always wondered what the heck happened to Twitter now that all the attention is on Facebook, take a look at what Reuters, and The International Herals Tribune has doing with a Twitter feed.

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For a great post on the who/what/why of Twitter, see Guy Kawasaki’s recent interview with Chris Brogan -
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/09/ten-questions-w.html

[...] Yesterday, I noted the appearance of a Facebook protest group (grown since by more than 500 members.) Today, there is a BBC report on YouTube, that is available on several blogs, and online newspapers capturing the horrible shooting of Mr. Nagai. [...]

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