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Tips for Remote Presenting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sometimes it has worked swimmingly like this one with Amy Sample Ward in 2008, other times not. When you’re live and in the room, you can observe body language and adjust accordingly. The body language code was as follows: ! It is also helpful to have a back channel for communications with the moderator.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. A similar example is that of an Atlanta city councilman who chose to post a message to Twitter asking for a medic to respond to an unconscious woman on the street rather than to dial 911.

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