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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Women for Women International

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Organization Size: Approximately 70 DC/stateside employees; more than 100 field staff employees in eight countries in Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East. YouTube: youtube.com/womenforwomenintl. Following that, Women for Women International moved on WordPress, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter throughout 2008-2010.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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The Social Media Response to Disaster in Haiti

NTEN

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. The relief items are helping more than 10,000 families (50,000 people) to date -- with plans to increase this number.

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