2010 Blog Haiti Internet 
Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 19, 2011
I’m joining a panel to talk about the response for support after the Haiti earthquakes last year. Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. Examples from Haiti. Let’s look at a couple of the main examples from the Haiti earthquake response.
NTEN
FEBRUARY 26, 2010
Read more posts on our blog. 2010 Haiti earthquake mobile fundraising: $30+ million. Pew Internet, in their report on " Social Media and Young Adults ", reveals that the number of teen bloggers has plummeted since 2006. 2009 total mobile fundraising: $4 million. Google Street View shenanigans.
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Tech Soup
AUGUST 9, 2011
The January 12, 2010 catastrophic earthquake in Haiti showed some of the astonishing potential for volunteer-based digital disaster relief. At the time of the Haiti earthquake, very few people in the country were using Twitter, but it was enough to get news of needs out to the world. For others it was not so clear.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 14, 2010
More than 85% of US internet users watched online video in July, and on average they spent more than 14 hours doing it. Bottom line: If you aren’t developing a video strategy you are not going to capture the mindshare of internet users. In 2010 much of their focus was on responding to the earthquake in Haiti. Holy smokes!
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 22, 2010
Yesterday I had the pleasure of participating in the final #zoogood Twitter chat of 2010. If you skip that, your mobile tactics won’t yield much impact or learning. What we witnessed over a year ago with SMS donations to the Haiti disaster is not going to be the norm for nonprofits. Maybe that first step is research.
Tech Soup
APRIL 19, 2016
The rise of mobile, social media, crowdsourcing, blogging, and citizen journalism in the mid-2000s created extraordinary new communication and information-sharing opportunities. Ushahidi's David Kobia was named Humanitarian of the Year in 2010 by the MIT Technology Review. Since then, there have been more than 6.5
Nonprofit Tech for Good
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Prioritize SEO by publishing content on a regular basis to your website, such as a “News” section or blog. Nonprofit Tech for Good is offering a free webinar on March 29, Blogging Best Practices for Nonprofits. Search engines are constantly crawling, indexing, and ranking websites. Email Marketing & Fundraising.
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