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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
Syria Untold: Refocusing on the Civil Society Movement Inside Syria This new project aims to frame information on Syria within its historical, political and social context, and to focus on Syrian civil society's ongoing actions to keep its calls for reform alive. WITNESS September 18, 2013
Being Social on Social Media Two interns with WITNESS' social media team learned not only how to effectively share information with our followers, but how to create a strategy for engagement. WITNESS August 13, 2013
10 Tips for Filming Protests – Turkish Version Now Featuring Images An image-based version of our "10 Tips for Filming Protests" in Turkish WITNESS June 13, 2013
Marshaling Social Media to Tell Stories of Death Row Innocence Too many cooks spoil the broth? Not anymore, says One for Ten producer Laura Shacham. She's hitting the social media superhighway to bring hundreds of voices to the stories of death row exonerees. WITNESS February 22, 2013
Kony 2012: Juggling Advocacy, Audience and Agency When Using #Video4Change "Kony 2012" is now the most rapidly disseminated human rights video ever. In six days it reached an aggregate 100 million views – faster than other pop culture phenomena like Susan Boyle (9 days), Rebecca Black (45 days) and ‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ (445 days). Sam Gregory March 17, 2012
A Few Reasons Activsts Shouldn’t be Banned from the Internet Last month on Human Rights Day (December 10th) I wrote an opinion piece for the HuffingtonPost about the increasingly important role technology companies and platforms are playing in the human rights landscape. Yvette Alberdingk Thijm January 23, 2012
Video Advocacy Example: Bullying, Social Media & Suicide Teen suicide in the United States has been on the rise. One cause is that teenagers have been increasingly bullied in school and through the use of social media. There are so many ways kids can post what is going in in their lives, whether it is via Twitter, Facebook, Google +, or a YouTube video. Ricky Cortez November 2, 2011