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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

I’m joining a panel to talk about the response for support after the Haiti earthquakes last year. In 2009, for example, 2 trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing directly. Examples from Haiti. Let’s look at a couple of the main examples from the Haiti earthquake response.

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The End of the Beginning of Online Giving

Connection Cafe

Let me also suggest that we need to stop placing a wall between offline and online giving strategies and tactics. And donors that are 55-years and older have the highest retention rates for both online and offline giving. This online versus offline wall is mostly in our own heads. of total sales. It’s in our org charts.

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Top 5 Lessons Learned in 2009: Multi-Channel Engagement

Connection Cafe

And with the publishing of the 2010 Nonprofit Resolutions Guide , 5 main lessons learned in the way of multi-channel marketing were evident in 2009. Top 5 Lessons Learned in 2009: Multi-Channel Engagement. If you insist on contacting me offline, then please tell me how I can respond online. Coordinate your efforts.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Beth Kanter and Allison Fine, the authors of The Networked Nonprofit that inspired this experiment, wrote an Assessment and Reflection Report on America’s Giving Challenge 2009. That’s why the Red Cross was so successful with their text message donation campaign during the Haiti crisis. Technology and ease of process is very important.

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Improve Online Fundraising Results and Wow Donors with These 7 Obvious Secrets

Tech Soup

According to Blackbaud 's 2011 Online Giving Report , online earnings dropped by 55 percent; but that was likely due to the increase in donations due to the Haiti earthquake in January 2010.

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What's Different One Year After Haiti? | Nonprofit Trends with.

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All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking What’s Different One Year After Haiti? The earthquake occurred at 4:53pm EST and the epicenter was 16 miles west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Do you have offline and well as online channels ready to go?

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