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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

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. In 2009, for example, 2 trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing directly.

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An Amazing NpTech Social Media Link Buffet: Take Your Pick!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I wish I had the capacity to write a blog post about each of these links below. I've been retweeting a lot of these links, but I also like to look for patterns and the best way to do that is aggregate them in a single blog post. Steve Heye has been blogging chapters in the book for the past few weeks. blog here and here.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

The women are day after day documenting that healing process in their online journals, in their online blog. We call them journals, because blogging is a little intimidating to the women who are new to this. Last year we piloted it, in 2009. So it's healing, it's just on a bigger scale. So, we started this program.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

Have Fun - Do Good

With finances a little tight this year, I've had to reduce the number of organizations I'm donating to in 2009. The women that we are servicing in Congo, where, if they are lucky, they get $0.20 The women that we are servicing in Congo, where, if they are lucky, they get $0.20 That's the story of Women for Women.

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Five Social Media Fundraising Trends for 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So for this post, I'd like to share 5 fundraising trends that we saw emerging in 2009 related to fundraising and social media and that will most definitely continue to have impact in 2010. In May, 2009, Peter Dietz, founder of Social Actions , reflected on the future of online fundraising and wrote about a shift in donor expectations.

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The Mismeasure of War

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A guest Beneblog by By Anita Gohdes, Megan Price, and Patrick Ball Several media organizations including Reuters , Foreign Policy and New Scientist covered the January 21 release of the 2009 Human Security Report (HSR) entitled, “The Shrinking Cost of War.” Tags: IRC mortality human rights Congo HSR warfare. Quite the opposite.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: WITNESS

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Blog: blog.witness.org. WITNESS currently utilizes the following social media tools: YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and “Video for Change” (blog). Our most useful social media tool is our blog site, especially for discussing WITNESS’ campaigns and sharing many of our and others videos. Organization: WITNESS.