From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Twitter offline tool

Now that Twitter, the all-praised social networking tool, is going into its 2nd day limping on one leg after yesterday’s hacker attack, it is time to fall back onto proven technology: Twitter’s Offline Utility… Step 1:

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Twitter and Facebook hacked (again)

The more critical, visible or popular a website, the more prone they become to hacker attacks. Social media giants Twitter and Facebook experienced this today. Both sites came under – probably related – hacker attacks today, bringing Twitter down, and Facebook onto its knees. The attacks were of a basic DoS (Denial of Service) types [...]

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Humanitarian organisations: Field blogs spread the message

In our primer series Blogging 101 – Starting a blog from scratch, I covered the topics non-profit organisations typically blog about. I used the example of “field blogs” written by field staff posting project updates, pictures and video, as a good example how blogs can be used as an advocacy tool. As examples are the [...]

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