The group was a broad, above-ground movement that was determined to launch a social revolution.
Yet the 4m mark has now been reached and neither rioting nor social revolution has broken out.
Same with Twitter: are you helping your company join the social revolution, or is it still banned at the boardroom?
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To play well in Peoria, the social revolution needs to be more than chatting with folks down the hall.
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Chavismo and the social revolution that Chavez began will continue, she predicted.
That such a respected statesman is in their crosshairs is a sign that the red-shirts' agenda contains the seeds of a social revolution.
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But Sanjeev Uprety, a novelist who writes in his native Nepali, says it has been energised by the country's social revolution and turbulent modern politics.
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NGOs have created a social revolution in a conservative Muslim society.
When the unemployment numbers burst through the 3m mark at the end of 2008, a senior trade unionist said that 4m would provoke a social revolution.
As with so many social revolutions in recent decades think PCs, satellite TV and cell phones technology has finally become good enough, cheap enough and ubiquitous enough to support a social revolution.
Rothschild Boulevard, a pleasant, leafy thoroughfare that meanders through Tel Aviv, with offices and commodious flats on either side, has oddly become a colourful encampment, seething with talk of people-power and social revolution.
Or perhaps a social revolution.
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Just as Sakamoto helped bring about a social revolution that set Japan on the road to modernization, Son, Sawada and Nambu are calling for another revolution - one that will replace what they believe is an inefficient, outdated business culture with a new paradigm that will prepare Japan for the next century.
In that context, your decision on whether or not to participate in the social revolution could very well determine the role your company plays in the ongoing cycle of creative destruction: will your company be among those that have the insights and depth of engagement to create the new, or will your company simply be among those that get pushed aside and rendered irrelevant?
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It follows that it is in American interests, and the interests of the hemisphere, that we be much more assertive in standing up for our values and our interests rather than kowtowing to a President who lacks legitimacy, who was elected without anything other than a synthetic majority, and who is playing out the last messages of the failed social revolution of Hugo Chavez.
The game that more or less started the social gaming revolution is back.
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As businesses and individuals discover the strong operational returns they can get from these communities, they are creating a quiet but powerful social business revolution.
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Thanks to the social media revolution and the advent of cheap video technology the playing field is leveling between big huge corporations and small business owners.
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The editor Blei Zhang, a casually dressed man in his early 30s, believes Tencent is part of a social media revolution opening up debate in China.
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There is both a shift in focus and power which has been clearly amplified by the ongoing social media revolution which has dramatically altered the customer landscape.
Over the last year, the social network revolution has made tycoons out of the likes of Sean Parker, Eduardo Saverin, Mark Pincus and Reid Hoffman.
Furthermore it is important to remember that the receiver has limits, and the businesses that stay within those limits will be the ones reaping the rewards of the social media revolution.
She says she finds the experience of blogging cathartic, but says she and the UK as a whole "has lost any perspective it ever had on what constitutes privacy" as a result of the social media revolution.
Indeed, Chavez sees the military as the backbone of his social and political revolution.
Signature social programs from the revolution, from health care to the education system, were struggling.
On the human side, social is really a revolution in terms of interaction within the enterprise.
If that were to happen in this new era of electronic social media, the revolution would be televised or more appropriately, Youtubed, Tweeted, and Facebooked.
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