{"id":947,"date":"2014-09-26T06:25:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T13:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/?p=947"},"modified":"2014-09-26T06:25:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T13:25:14","slug":"respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2014\/09\/respect\/","title":{"rendered":"Using social media to promote respect, tolerance, reconciliation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Disease Control in the USA uses <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CDCSTD\">a special Twitter account, @CDCSTD<\/a>, to help people&#8221; to be safer and healthier by the prevention of STDs and their complications.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The initiative <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EverydaySexism\" target=\"_blank\">@EverydaySexism<\/a>\u00a0uses Twitter to create awareness about the every day harassment and sexism that women experience. This organization does this both via its own tweets and using\u00a0this hashtag, #everydaysexism, which they encourage others to use with their own tweets; they monitor use of this hastag and, often, retweet messages using it.<\/p>\n<p>These are two examples of organizations using social media &#8211; Twitter, specifically &#8211; as a part of their program delivery. They aren&#8217;t using Twitter to point to a press release or provide updates on programs; Twitter IS the program delivery or, at least, part of it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking for examples of organizations using Twitter, Facebook, even just simple, old-fashioned text messaging, to promote:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>tolerance<\/li>\n<li>respect<\/li>\n<li>reconciliation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And to counter:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>bigotry<\/li>\n<li>prejudice<\/li>\n<li>inequality<\/li>\n<li>misperceptions and misconceptions about a particular group of people or different people<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m not looking for just organizations that are promoting tolerance, respect or reconciliation among different groups; I&#8217;m looking for examples on Twitter or Facebook of organizations actually using social media as a way to build tolerance, respect and\/or reconciliation &#8211; they are sending out messages that somehow encourage two groups that have previously been or are currently in conflict to respect each other, for instance.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to be gobsmacked if some organization somewhere in the world isn&#8217;t trying this\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Disease Control in the USA uses a special Twitter account, @CDCSTD, to help people&#8221; to be safer and healthier by the prevention of STDs and their complications.&#8221; The initiative @EverydaySexism\u00a0uses Twitter to create awareness about the every day harassment and sexism that women experience. 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