Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 28, 2012
Here’s how it works, according to their recent Facebook and Tumblr posts: The Nature Conservancy has used photo contests to crowdsource photos from its network through social media in the post, as far back as 2008 when it ran a contest on Flickr. There are some obvious benefits: Engaging its network beyond the like on Facebook.
NTEN
NOVEMBER 30, 2008
After you look at the sobering visualization of incidents in the Congo (DRC), you may need another dose of puppies. Google.org has developed a way to track flu outbreaks based on aggregated search data. Economy got you down? You need the live puppy cam ! Ushahidi gathers crisis reports from mobile sources, then maps the data.
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Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 19, 2011
Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. There were also many sites so a searcher would have to go through several and sort through the many different search protocols and syntax. Now for indirect content or Mash-ups.
NTEN
FEBRUARY 17, 2010
Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more.
Have Fun - Do Good
APRIL 2, 2008
Increasingly, rape of women is being used as a tool of war, not just in large scale wars as we saw in the Serbian and Bosnian conflict, but as we saw recently in Kenya and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This year, 2008, is the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I am always a big believer in that.
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