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6 Teen Activists You Should Be Following in 2021

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Whether it’s taking a stance for LGBTQ+ rights, fighting against climate change, or shedding light on marginalized communities, this generation is vocal about creating change for the better. They have also started Never Again MSD, a student-run committee that advocates for tighter gun laws, known on social media as #neveragain.

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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

It started in 2004 when a legislative committee held a series of hearings on digital copyright reform. Hundreds of Facebook groups started cropping up indicating the issue was finding space in local communities. There is no song book. People will increasingly seek to influence policy, companies and communities.

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When I Couldn’t Find Marketing Outlets to Elevate My Brand, I Created My Own

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When I first started building Diversability with the vision of creating a community of people with disabilities (and the allies who support us) elevating disability pride, I kept encountering roadblocks when trying to get the word out. Now, in 2023, we have 80,000 followers across our social networks and 5,800 in our closed communities.

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B2B Social Media Gets Intimate

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Strategic planning, competitive analysis and product development are just a few activities most companies prefer to keep confidential. In our rush to amass friends and followers, Rubel argues, we've assembled online social communities that are so loud and so constant, that it's become difficult to use them for more than mundane conversations.

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Joomla! Surpasses 15 Million Downloads

Bill Hartzer

In addition, the Community Oversight Committee has elected several new board members including Steve Burge, Javier Gomez, Marko Milenovic, Jacques Rentzke, Robert Deutz and Akarawuth Tamrareang. In 2010 we look forward to helping the community tackle some major agenda items, such as a new release of Joomla!

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Bloggers Are Not Journalists – But They Are Abducted, Imprisoned Tortured and Assassinated the Same #HowManyMore

Laurel Papworth

And while the Committee to Protect Journalists does an outstanding job of protecting journalists from abduction, imprisonment and assassination as well as free speech for all, how can they protect the bloggers when even the Australian Government doesn’t respect bloggers? In Greece, Sokratis Giolias was blogging on corruption.

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Wired Campus: Computer Literacy Doesn't Mean Information Literacy, Report Says - Chronicle.com

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Research & Books. Community Colleges. Community Colleges. Campus Piracy Company Watch Distance Education Gadgets Leadership Legal Troubles Libraries Offbeat Open Access Research Search Engines Security Social Networking Student Life Supercomputing Teaching TechForum2008 Video Virtual Worlds Wikis. Salary surveys.

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