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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. Examples from Haiti. Let’s look at a couple of the main examples from the Haiti earthquake response. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take.

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A Few of Your Favorite Things (Best of "Things We Like" 2010)

NTEN

Read more posts on our blog. No, these are the links you clicked the most in 2010 -- and after a long and productive year, you deserve, at the very least, some Star Wars cupcakes. The annual roundup of the most clicked items from "Things We Like". We could have sworn "Kitteh Roulette" would be the last cat video site you'd ever need.

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A Few of Your Favorite Things (Best of "Things We Like" 2010)

NTEN

Read more posts on our blog. No, these are the links you clicked the most in 2010 -- and after a long and productive year, you deserve, at the very least, some Star Wars cupcakes. The annual roundup of the most clicked items from "Things We Like". We could have sworn "Kitteh Roulette" would be the last cat video site you'd ever need.

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Ushahidi Wins MacArthur Award: Changing the World One Map at a Time

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Following the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 and the tsumani in Japan in 2011, the Ushahidi platform was used to organize emergency responses in real-time. In less than an hour after the 2011 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, the Ushahidi platform was used to spotlight areas of refuge.

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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

NTEN

On January 12, 2010, I didn't personally experience the major earthquake that hit Haiti, but I was forever changed by it. We have a robust social media presence on all the sites you'd expect: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and our blog. Melissa Eliott was heavily involved in the Haiti relief effort as a volunteer.

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5 Online Fundraising Tools: Tools 4 Your Mission Part 2/3

Tech Soup

Supporting more than 100,000 nonprofits, Network for Good provides an aggregation of resources including expert communications and fundraising training as well as webinars , e-books , and a wealth of how-to literature on everything nonprofit, all for. When the earthquake struck in Haiti in. Projects do expire with deadlines.

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