Sunday Feb 12, 2012
Since its earliest days the “Internet gathering” known as Anonymous has declared “we are legion”. After attacks on PayPal, Amazon, Sony, various banks and US Government websites, as in Roman times, the power of the legion is again feared. According to some, anonymous’ latest target is Israel, with a threat to systematically removing Israel from the internet. The evidence, however, suggests this is far more likely an...
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Tuesday Oct 11, 2011
Wow. That’s was my first reaction to the SMS my brother sent me. The message was short and to the point, “Hope you’re awake and seeing the Gilad Shalit News!” The news was going viral in social media. It took me a few minutes to process it. The @meetgilad account on twitter, part of the meetgilad.com campaign I created, started receiving messages. My brother’s next message arrived, “It’s massive!...
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Tuesday Sep 13, 2011
The Palestinian push for statehood is being promoted in every way possible, by legitimate, questionable and outright illegal means. The illegal means will likely include cyber attacks on the websites and servers of the Israeli Government, Israeli companies, and Jewish and Zionist organisations worldwide. There has already been a small wave of cyber attacks by Turkish hackers resulting in a general spike in hacking activity against Israel. As the...
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Friday Sep 02, 2011
Pirkei Avot records Ben Zoma’s advice that a wise person is one who learns from all others. Online advocacy is a rapidly evolving field and one in which Israel advocates are regularly out maneuvered. We must learn not only from actions on our side, but also from the campaigns of those opposing us. Following my last article, which discussed two campaigns in support of Gilad Shalit, this article looks at a campaign in support of a...
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Saturday Aug 27, 2011
Everyone wants a social media campaign; they’re just not quite sure what it is. Every marketing student, blogger and self styled activist wants to be known as a “social media expert”. This post looks at two social media campaigns of particular relevance to today, Gilad Shalit’s birthday, and what we can learn from them.
Tweet4Gilad.com
The idea for this campaign came from Melissa Jane Kronfeld and the...
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