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How to Help: 3 Nonprofits Contributing to the 2021 Haiti Earthquake Relief Efforts

Classy

earthquake followed by four aftershocks struck western Haiti and took the lives of an estimated 1,300 citizens. This is the second earthquake to hit the area with such force after a first shock back in 2010. Organizations Stepping In to Support Haiti Earthquake Victims. Twitter: @CoreResponse. Hope for Haiti.

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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. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter! Examples from Haiti. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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Great reads from around the web on January 15th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Submissions close January 22, 2010." Digital Media and Learning Competition: Applications now open!

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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

Tech Soup

The January 12, 2010 catastrophic earthquake in Haiti showed some of the astonishing potential for volunteer-based digital disaster relief. Online tools like Twitter , Ushahidi , Google Person Finder , CrisisMappers , and the work of nonprofit organizations like Crisis Commons. Twitter uses hashtags.

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Text to Give TweetChat on October 5

Tech Soup

Pacific time via the Twitter hashtag #Text2Give for a real-time discussion of how text-to-give campaigns can help nonprofits. When following the January 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti, the Red Cross quickly mobilized a text donation campaign that raised an astounding $32 million.

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Hurricane Irene and the Nonprofit Social Media Storm

NTEN

The organization also worked with Twitter to create a special badge that marked volunteers' Twitter accounts as valid and official sources of information. Government agencies jumped into the social space on both Twitter and Facebook. They also suggested that followers pass the information on to those who may have lost power.

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Are Qwerty Monsters the Nonprofit Donors of the Future?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Google and Microsoft sent me mobile phones in response to my complaints about the Apple iPhone in-app donation policy. Yesterday I had the pleasure of participating in the final #zoogood Twitter chat of 2010. Mobile can’t be this separate tactic or channel in your communications strategy. Qwerty Monsters.

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