Igniting change through social media | Cassidy Bereskin | TEDxYouth@NTCI

Since the age of 10, Cassidy has been exploring what she can do on Social Media: everything from championing youth voice to effecting social change. As the Conference Chair of the TDSB’s student senate, Cassidy is no stranger to amplifying the student voice: both her own and the voices of over 250,000 students she represents. Cassidy is the Director of Marketing for Model City Hall — the first conference in Canada to simulate Toronto politics for youth. Through using Social Media for social...

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From: TEDx Talks

Related topics : social media changed politics / social media help / social media in government conference / marketing through social media

Data.gov Present and Future - Semantic Web, Linked Data and Social Media - Part 2

George Thomas, Enterprise Architect, HHS

Data.gov is deploying Semantic Web technologies and embracing Social media. Combining the collaborative power of the Social Web with the transparency of the Linked (Open Government) Data platform will enhance data quality and linking across Government information domains, considering metadata creation and data curation as 'social objects' we network around. Come to this session to listen and learn about the present and future technologies being...

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From: gtracouncilmeeting

Related topics : social media link / social network data

Data.gov Present and Future - Semantic Web, Linked Data and Social Media - Part 1

George Thomas, Enterprise Architect, HHS

Data.gov is deploying Semantic Web technologies and embracing Social media. Combining the collaborative power of the Social Web with the transparency of the Linked (Open Government) Data platform will enhance data quality and linking across Government information domains, considering metadata creation and data curation as 'social objects' we network around. Come to this session to listen and learn about the present and future technologies being...

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From: gtracouncilmeeting

Related topics : social media link / social network data

CIA sifts social media sites

More and more people put their lives on social media sites worldwide. Globally Facebook and Twitter have been effective tools for organizing major protests and overthrowing governments. Now members of the CIA department are paid to analyze what people are talking about on social media. This leaves many wondering about the intentions behind this practice. Wayne Madsen, an investigative journalist, gives us his thoughts on why the CIA is concerned with your tweets.

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From: RT America

Related topics : social media site / social media tools