Sherrilynne Starkie

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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

Geist said that this sequence of events provided “the first inkling that something might be here. From then the movement grew: The Fair Copyright for Canada Facebook Group was launched in 2007 and soon had 90,000 members. Hundreds of Facebook groups started cropping up indicating the issue was finding space in local communities.

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Nine years of Twitter

Sherrilynne Starkie

I joined Twttr (that’s what it was called then) on April 3, 2007 just as it started to gain traction at SXSWi. To keep abreast of events as they happened, I spent that day with one eye out the window and the other on my Twitter feed. Managing a community of thousands can be a bit overwhelming but Twitter Lists really help.

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