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Is online activism effective? 5 ways to ask (and answer) the question

6 December, 2011
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by Alexandra Samuel

Can social media catalyze or support political change? To answer that question, you have to understand who is asking, and what they really want to know.

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"IRL" means online, too

It's time to recognize the reality of our digital lives

29 July, 2010
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by Rob Cottingham

There's a habit people have of referring to the offline world as "real"... as in IRL, or "in real life". The implication is that the online world isn't real, and that the portion of our lives spent there somehow doesn't count.

Alex challenged this idea in a blockbuster blog post on Harvard Business Review, 10 Reasons to Stop Apologizing for Your Online Life, where she argued that this artificial division causes real harm - offline and online:

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Disconnected? No problem!

Five ways to work on your blog when you aren't online

19 July, 2010
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by Rob Cottingham

Originally posted on BlogWorld Expo.

Flaky wireless connections are a fact of life for bloggers on the move. If it isn’t tortoise-slow downloads, it’s a password that never seems to “take”. If it isn’t a connection that keeps dropping, it’s a router that refuses to give you an IP address.

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