Matthew de Gale's blog

Social Media and NGOs: Getting it Right

So Twitter is Iran's voice of dissent (right now #iran, #iranelection and #neda are all trending) and Facebook and Youtube is where you go to see a 40 seconds of Neda Agha-Soltan dying (I couldn't watch it).

Using SMS as a Communication tool for NGOs: Frontline SMS

Frontline SMS LogoDuring the recent SANGONeT roadshow we talked a little about Twitter as one of the leading edge social media tools available to us in our work,. The overriding response to the talk was: "can I use it to send SMS's to my community/constituents/clients".

The answer, in South Africa, is no. You can can use SMS to update your twitter status, but you can't recieve updates from people on your phone.
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