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  • What We’re Reading: July 25 Edition Every week we publish a list of our favorite articles on human rights, video, and advocacy. This week features the promotion of LGBT rights in India, the use of social media to uncover the mystery behind the downed Malaysia Flight MH17 and much more. WITNESS July 25, 2014
  • #AIDS2014 Live Twitter Recap This week will be following our Senior Program Manager Bukeni Waruzi via our #AIDS2014 Live Twitter Recap blog post. Stay tuned for live updates. WITNESS July 21, 2014
  • #Instagood Tips for Nonprofits #Instagood tips for nonprofits will help you start and manage an instagram account to be part of your organization's online storytelling goals. WITNESS July 17, 2014
  • Hunger Games Meme + Call for Social Justice = Empowerment? Thai protesters use the "Hunger Games" three finger gesture to show their silent opposition to the recent military coup. Can this tactic help your campaign? WITNESS July 3, 2014
  • Building Bridges Between Activists and the Tech and Media Communities WITNESS Executive Director, Yvette Alberdingk-Thijm and Program Director, Sam Gregory speak on media, technology and social change at Internet Week New York 2014. Sarah Stein Kerr June 6, 2014
  • Recommended Summer Reading List for Social Media Managers In order to stay relevant social media managers need to continually research and educate themselves about communication technologies, the design of tools/graphics, why people share, visual communication, storytelling and more. WITNESS June 5, 2014
  • Insights on the Use of Memes for Social Justice Campaigns A guest post by The Civic Beat's Ben Valentine about social change memes in global contexts. WITNESS May 29, 2014
  • An Interview with Yemeni Blogger and Women’s Rights Advocate Noon Arabia An interview covering how she got started as a blogger, the issues that are most important to her, and a new crop Yemeni women bloggers. Matisse Bustos Hawkes May 28, 2014
  • How Video For Change is Being Used in the Middle East and North Africa Reflections from WITNESS’ Raja Althaibani on the use of media for social change in the Middle East and North Africa following an UnConference at the University of Birmingham, England. WITNESS May 28, 2014
  • How Video Metadata Can Help Rhinos, Not Poachers Information like geotags, a form of metadata, can help poachers find animals to hunt down, or allow the NSA to find out a lot about a potential target's movements. But should that prevent us from using social media entirely? Morgan Hargrave May 22, 2014
  • Anatomy of a Google Hangout On Air A list of tools, tips, and roles on host a successful Google Hangout On Air from a WITNESS digital producer. WITNESS May 21, 2014
  • Video Exposes Police Abuse in Venezuela (Or is it Mexico? Or Colombia?) One video's journey across Latin American protest movements underscores the challenge of monitoring activism online. WITNESS February 25, 2014
  • Documentary Films I’d Bet On To Get An Oscar Nomination Based on social buzz, colleagues’ input, reviews, watching the shortlist films, and media/PR coverage below are my picks to get an Oscar nod (views are my own, not WITNESS'). WITNESS January 15, 2014
  • It’s That Time of Year for Predictions As the social media manager at the nonprofit, WITNESS, here are my comments on some of the social media predictions for 2014. WITNESS January 9, 2014
  • L6g49CARAAhP660rO9DCn4W3L: Email and Chat Encryption Basics for Activists Activists everywhere face the violations of their right to privacy especially in their online communications. We share basics of encryption that may help keep you, your networks and your communications safer. Sarah Stein Kerr October 16, 2013

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