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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!

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The Social Media Response to Disaster in Haiti

NTEN

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. We interact with our friends and colleagues in real time on and offline -- either in the office or out at coffee, on Twitter or social networks. How can we do that?

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Social Media: You're Probably Doing It Wrong

Care2

Join me, Allyson Kapin, Co-founder of Rad Campaign and Blogger-in-Chief of Care2''s Frogloop blog and Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director of NTEN for this free webinar. Let''s be honest, social media is progressing and changing every single day and most people don''t have the time to keep up with the most effective way to do social media.