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How one nonprofit commemorates enduring sibling relationships with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

The private and supportive SibsForever community is made up of hundreds of surviving siblings, totally separate from any major social media platform. How one nonprofit uses AWS to amplify citizen advocacy across Africa. It provides a virtual platform for surviving siblings to commemorate and honor their sibling relationship.

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Rethinking Time Management: Beyond the Clock to True Resource Mastery #2

Grant Writing Made Easy

If you dragged your feet a little or spent a few minutes scrolling social media before finally getting down to it, you could give it a 2 or call it “medium.” If you just did the thing without really putting much thought into it, you could label it “easy” or give it a 1. Cheer yourself on.

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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

At a lesser scale, sabotage, targeted assassination, cyber attacks and political interference through social media are increasingly capable of causing runaway chains of adverse consequences. With a general election pending there is an opportunity to produce some strong advocacy for the development of a better civil protection system.

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Campus activism: potential blowback on the Republicans?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But with cable television and social media and the decline of newspapers and traditional television news, effect can be dissipated, even though social media had some success wrt both Tahrir Square in Cairo and Chiapas state in Mexico. Not to mention the development of a fabulist conservative media ecosystem.

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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

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.

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Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), has been very prominently in the news lately. The changes then became the subject of hearings and legislation in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to reverse the changes.

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African American History Month and Transportation: February 4th | Transit Equity Day

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

She was a leading member of the area transit advocacy group, LINK Houston. Last fall, the Houston Chronicle ran an obituary on one of Houston's foremost transit advocates, " Janis Scott, Houston's 'bus lady,' arts patron and tireless advocate for public transit, dies at 73." Urban design and minority communities.