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#SocialMedia: Kony 2012 Still Stirs Engagement, Controversy, And Embarrassment
Director's breakdown raises further questions The controversy surrounding the viral video ‘Kony 2012′ continues even as its views on YouTube surpass 85.4 million as I write. The director, Jason...
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#PROAGING: Republican Budget Realigns Medicare But Ignores Long-Term Care
The macro-economics of aging over the next 40 years do not look great: the first Baby Boomers reached the age of Social-Security eligibility 15 months ago, but the crest of this so-called ‘Silver...
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#SM4NP: Kony 2012 Will Get A Sequel & More Context Today
Today is the day. Probably. As any Hollywood mogul will confirm, when your movie is watched by 100 million people, you need to make a sequel. That market is just too big to pass up. And the renown...
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#CIVICS: Apple’s Billions In Tax Dodges Come Under Scrutiny
The corporation is in California, but not its tax liability Apple Inc. is making it difficult to feel sympathy for Apple Inc. When the blogosphere challenged Apple the business and Steve Jobs the CEO...
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#TECH: Once Developed By Apple, Now Abandoned By Apple: EPEAT Standards
Has Apple lost its environmental cred? It can be tough to love Apple, Inc. Stock prices over $600? Check. Over $100 billion in cold, hard, cash? You bet. Products loved even by those who don’t even own...
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#CIVICS: Nonprofits Should Watch Their Politics On Their Social Networks
As the now-famous comic writer Andy Borowitz has posted on Twitter: “Only a billion more lies until the election.” Not only is it easy to get swept up in the horse-trading, haranguing and name-calling...
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#FUNDRAISING: Presidential Candidates Ramp Up Mobile Giving
With the (delayed) start of the Republican Convention in Tampa earlier this week, the really officially serious campaign season starts. For the next 10-odd weeks, most American start to focus on the...
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Do You Have a Whites-Only Prospect List?
Cartoon by Thomas Nast Roger Craver, whose blog isn’t called “The Agitator” for nothing, has laid out a provocative question to fundraisers: Are you making the same demographic mistake as the...
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#FUNDRAISING: Crowdfunding Response To Boston Bombing Raises Hope & Caution
One of the wonderful qualities of Americans is the way we respond with our time and our money when a terrible shock or natural disaster hits our fellow countrypeople. The bombings in Boston on the 15th...
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#ADVOCACY: Google Does Harm To Privacy & Suffers An Hour’s Income For...
Google as a gateway spying agency? What you think about Google’s (and Facebook’s. And Twitter’s…) efforts to collect personal information of its users probably says quite a bit about what you think...
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