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Syria’s internet blackout
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/18/syrias-internet-blackout/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 18, 2012 Google launches speak to tweet service because of Syria’s internet blackout, a good example of the use of social media to provide crisis communications.
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VoxDev launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/30/voxdev-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 30, 2017 Free access to a great new portal from the Centre for Economic Policy Research, the International Growth Centre and the Private Enterprise Development in Low Income Countries...
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Guardian newspaper launches new business blogs
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/10/07/guardian-newspaper-launches-new-business-blogs/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2011 http://www.guardian.co.
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Politics twitter feeds
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/11/28/politics-twitter-feeds/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 28, 2011 Politicker USA http://www.politickerusa.com/ Good directory of twitter feeds from politicians, parties and USA presidential candidates. Follow them all in one place.
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Peace Women
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/10/17/peace-women/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 17, 2011 http://www.peacewomen.org/ A project of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) which seeks to promote peace and disarmament.
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Google public alerts
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/08/google-public-alerts/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2013 http://www.google.org/crisisresponse/publicalerts/ Google is now advertising public service crisis and disaster alerts.
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Bloomberg: Macroeconomic data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/22/bloomberg-macroeconomic-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 22, 2013 The U.K. economy grew 0.3 percent in the first quarter, avoiding a triple dip recession. Bloomberg functions show much of the recovery comes from the services industry.
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Historical American Newspapers – a reminder
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/03/historical-american-newspapers-a-reminder/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2014 The Chronicling America database from the Library of Congress provides access to more that 8.1 million newspapers 1836-1922.
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Gender, race and money in politics database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/12/gender-race-and-money-in-politics-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 12, 2019 The Center for Responsive Politics has just released a new database which enables researchers to explore the interaction between gender and race in US campaign funding.
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Presidential inaugurations
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/01/25/presidential-inaugurations/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 25, 2021 US senate has a list of dates off all ceremonies. Many examples have links to digitised images of official photographs or paintings plus ephemera such as tickets. U.S.