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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. It eventually garnered 45,000 users who took advantage of the easy-to-access tool to place reports.

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Vote for these SXSW Nonprofit Panels

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2009, the “Social Media ROI Poetry Slam” SXSW lead to a book “Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” New Tools for Digital Justice - [link] – coordinated by Mike Medow. Social Engagement in Disasters [link] coordinated by Wendy Harman. LOL Cats Are Cute, But Can They Save Lives?

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Online Engagement and Giving: Making the Most of Real Numbers

NTEN

Here are some of the other data points and trends that research and system performance revealed in 2009: More than 111 million consumers planned to donate online to charity in the last quarter of 2009.1. 63% of online consumers planned to use the Internet to donate to charity in the last quarter of 2009, up from 51% in 2008.1.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

In 2009, 350, working in tandem with communities around the world and partner organizations aligned on the shared goal of creating a global movement to solve the climate crisis, ignited the largest collective action that has ever been taken around the world with their 10/10/10 Day of Action. Have people heard of 350.org org before?

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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Last Chance to Vote for Nonprofit SXSW Panels: Closes September 4th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. you'll hear case studies of social media disasters and how they could have been prevented, as well as how brands have dealt with potential PR nightmares.

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What Natural Gas and Email Have in Common

Connection Cafe

So direct mail and telemarketing (offline) for the large part rule the roost. Many organizations learned this the hard way during the acquisition cuts of 2008-2009 trying to save money during the economic downturn. Starting to sound pretty familiar? Perhaps not the cleanest or most glamorous, but they power the revenue engine.

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