Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 19, 2011
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. Whether it’s direct or indirect content, why do citizens turn to social media in moments of need or disaster?
NTEN
OCTOBER 13, 2010
We opened ourselves up, invited communities, and created an expectation that asking for help in these spaces will result in real-life action. Unfortunately, this isn't Domino's Pizza and disaster response can't work as if it is. Melissa Eliott was heavily involved in the Haiti relief effort as a volunteer.
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NTEN
FEBRUARY 17, 2010
When disaster strikes, we want information as soon as possible and we want to help just as quickly. But the way we think about and turn to social media in a time of disaster is changing. The disaster in Haiti is a perfect example of these changes: the impact of the Real-Time Web and the power of our phones. How can we do that?
Candid
JULY 27, 2022
Here we share Candid’s processes, the data’s uses and limitations, and a call to action. . Because of the challenges of aligning public promises with later grant dollars , Candid aggregates pledges and grants separately in our analyses. Call to action . Collecting and using “real-time” data during crises .
Candid
APRIL 13, 2021
The $126 million grant, to Easterseals, is an outlier in size and structure—it actually represents an aggregation of grants to a set of individual Easterseals chapters. The leading issue category is health, followed by “public safety,” which includes funding focused on disasters. Grant size distribution.
Amy Sample Ward
APRIL 1, 2009
an easy way to approach this is by updating information in the group/fan page every time you send out an enewsletter or action alert). the key words for your sector (like “blood drive&# and “disaster relief&# if you are the Red Cross). Social Actions. do you link to your group/fan page from your website? Communities.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 1, 2010
Ed Granger-Happ, Nethope; Claire Bonilla, Disaster Response Microsoft; Daniel Ben-Horin, TechSoup Global, Vida Durant, CARE USA. Microsoft researchers are collaborating with the academic community on environmental problems, such as aggregation and visualization of complex scientific data from many sources. We need leverage points."
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