Yesterday, a huge debate on Twitter ensued when Mother Jones reporter Mac McClelland began tweeting the graphic story of a Haitian rape survivor – complete with too much personal detail like the woman’s name, age and medical situation. An editor at Mother Jones, Clara Jeffery, also re-tweeted parts of the story and encouraged her followers…
It goes without saying that blogging has taught me so much and connected me with so many amazing people. And yet, I am learning something new about blogging every day; I’ve been following along with Rosetta Thurman’s “Blogging for Branding” challenge, and she’s provided so many excellent tips for blogging. One of her tips centers…
The Be the Change blog series is coming to an end. I have one final guest post coming up on Friday — and then will be wrapping up the series! I’ve been incredibly impressed and completely blown away with the participation in this series. So, a great big thank you to all those who have…
It’s a widely believed theory that the Internet, social media and other online tools and technologies can serve to undermine authoritarian regimes and help to spread democracies. As I wrote before, technology represents the ‘democratization of information’ – by which regimes no longer have a monopoly on knowledge. By reaching people who might never have…