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3 Library Marketing Experts Agree: It’s Time for Your Library To Abandon Twitter

Super Library Marketing

He’s reinstated numerous banned accounts and freely allows posts from climate deniers, anti-vaxxers, as well as antisemitic dog whistles. 10 percent of Twitter users account for about 92 percent of the Tweets shared on the platform. She’s a 2010 Library Journal Mover & Shaker. Most users aren’t active.

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Nationalization of banks came at the expense of local communities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Philadelphia Inquirer business columnist Joseph DiStefano has a piece, " How Philly lost its big banks, and a little survivor that’s grown in the vacuum ," about two books about the history of Philadelphia's banks, most of which have met similar fates to those of Detroit, St. But that story isn’t in this book; he plans a sequel.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

8] The privatization of Fannie Mae in 1968 by the Johnson administration was explicitly done to take government spending off the books under the pressure of Vietnam War era “guns and butter” budget strains. [9] 25] He resigned in 2004 due to accounting irregularities. [26]

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Top 50 City Government Blogs

Masters in Public Administration

Located in Missouri, he often updates readers on the state of the city but has been known to go off topic for items such as books and film. He was elected to the Newburyport City Council for a two-year term in January 2010. The local government here strives to be accountable and accessible. Mayor Graham’s View. City News Blog.

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Learning what not to do from the New England Patriots football team

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From " Design Thinking ," American Libraries, 2008 I used action planning concepts when I did a pedestrian and bicycle plan for Baltimore County (" Best practice bicycle planning for suburban settings using the "action planning" method ," 2010). It was an important lesson to me about not learning the wrong lesson from success.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

These pages, open to anyone with a Facebook account, include ‘friends’ not only from one’s home country or state, but from throughout the world. Further, as protest movements grow more diverse, so must our theoretical framework and investigations of the nature of protest movements in online spaces (Earl, 2010; Earl, J.

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V for Vagina: The Anniversary of Michigan Representative Lisa Brown’s Vagina Monologue

Public Policy Blog

How power can be utilized as a stalemate or “punishment” reads like a list ripped from an old high school year book or a future Mean Girls script. Measuring State House Speakers Formal Power 1981-2010. Links attributed above to phrases or accounts: [link]. Social Science Quarterly , 77(4), 888-898. Mooney, Christopher (2013).