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Please Help: Volunteers Needed To Help With Hurricane Wiki To Prep for Hurricane Ida

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Weather Channel Alerts 2009 was looking like a very uneventful hurricane season. That is until Hurricane Ida slammed into El Salvador killing 91 people as of this writing. He set up a Ning site Hurricane Information Center. It is now headed towards the gulf coast of the US.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Some include the Red Cross, The Weather Channel, local newspapers, Craigslist, and others. In 2009, for example, 2 trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing directly.

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How Can We Make Charitable Giving A Year-Round Habit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's a few ideas to help make charitable giving get on your calendar each month for 2009. Last year, when I turned 51, I posted a challenge on my blog - could I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation? For example, Mizfit is donated a dime per comment to a local women's shelter. And, yes they did !

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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. Take your pick!

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Steve Bridger

I’ve finally started work on my Now-to-New book (the book is itself a N2N project and you can see it unfold on my blog) and these words are very encouraging. Maybe a section on this blog, or a wiki, pulling the idea together[?] Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 9:03 pm | Permalink Martin wrote: Love this Steve, Great blog for today.

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