Ahuvah Berger
Ahuvah Berger (her name is sometimes spelt Ahuva Berger) is a Zionist social networking activist.
Since June 2007, Berger has been an associate at Saddlerock Advisors, a venture capital and private equity firm focussed on US and Israeli companies.[1]
Berger was a participant in the HelpUsWin.org social media campaign during Israel's offensive in Gaza in December 2008/January 2009, according to PBS.org.
- Ahuva Berger, an American immigrant to Israel now working in Israeli startups, regularly reported for duty.
- "We are fighting against the mainstream media who prefer to ignore certain bits of information about Israel," Berger told me in an interview, "and social media is an effective way of providing the right information passively."[2]
Berger stated in an email to SpinProfiles editors received on 23 June 2009, "Other than during that particular war [Israel's offensive on Gaza in December 2008–January 2009], I am not affiliated with the organization [HelpUsWin.org]".
Berger added in the email, "I am ranked the #1 most influential Jewish tweeter in the world - and if that makes me a 'twitter lobbiest' [sic.] I would gladly take accept [sic.] that title." This ranking was awarded to Berger by Jewish news service JTA[3]
In a separate email to SpinProfiles editors received on 23 June 2009, Berger wrote:
- When the war broke out a group of us who work in the high-tech scene decided to get personally involved and use social media to help show /our personal /side to the story. We ended up joining efforts with Help Us Win (even though we do not all agree on their charter) and *none* of us got paid for the days of work we missed to participate in the online efforts.
- We were affiliated with the Israeli government only in as much as we discussed with them how they could utilize social media (twitter and youtube as examples) but we did not run the youtube channel, twitter accounts, etc.
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Berger's blog Sabra at Heart states: "I consider myself a Zionist. I believe in the State of Israel for Jews and run by Jews."[4]
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Contact
- Blog: http://www.sabraheart.blogspot.com/
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/ahoova
Notes
- ↑ Ahuvah Berger, linkedin.com, accessed 20 June 2009.
- ↑ Jaron Gilinsky, How Social Media War Was Waged in Gaza-Israel Conflict, Mediashift, PBS.org, 13 February 2009.
- ↑ JTA’s 100 Most Influential Jewish Twitterers, JTA website, accessed 23 June 2009
- ↑ Ahuvah Berger, Sabra At Heart, accessed 20 June 2009.
