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Category: The Social Diplomat

Branded content by UN Social 500 contributor Dr Tarah Van De Wiele

Why You can Never Stop Tweeting Support for Refugees: The News, The Fear, The Refugee who Sees You

Refugee advocates have some tireless tweeters in their ranks. The hashtag #refugees already numbered in the hundreds at 7:30...
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Massive study on Ebola-related Tweets debunks the importance of “going viral” on Twitter, among other surprises

How do we spread potentially life-saving information on a global medium with a model that is somehow both crucial and yet also elusive to master? Enter: A new kind of question.

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How images of collaboration and agency are rewriting the story of poverty on Twitter

Photo by Ibrahim Rifath on Unsplash
Today on The Social Diplomat, we draw from the research of Monique Costner and Tanu Kohli, which examines the...
The Social Diplomat

How to Talk about Climate Change on Twitter: 3 Statistically proven Methods to Try Today

Talking about climate change is difficult, but doing it on Twitter is a high-stakes gamble. Get it right and...
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What is Gamification?
The UN Social 500 uses gamification to rank Social Media Champions at the United Nations

Gam·i·fi·ca·tion
ɡāmifəˈkāSHən
noun
The application of typical elements of game playing (e.g., point scoring, competition with others, rules of play) to other areas of activity, to encourage engagement.

Thank you to all Social Media Champions at the UN who "play" by generously volunteering to use their personal social media accounts to share the work of the United Nations and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals!
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