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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. The platform would then take their data, map it from their sending location, and create the other visual support data you see on the map. Indirect Content. Examples from Haiti.

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Designing Programs to Build Community: Case Study with Charity Technology Trust

Amy Sample Ward

Ideally, the conversation with map the various services to the segments or groups who already/could benefit. In CTX’s eyes it is the engagement, aggregation, or the weaving of people and ideas, questions and answers. Tags: case studies resources casestudy community communitybuilding ctt howto strategy tsg. peer to peer.

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Can Social Network Analysis Improve Your Social Media Strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. In the book, we talk about the using low tech tools like crayons or post-it notes to map out your network. When you map your network, it tells you a story.

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Collaborative Paper: What to do in the nonprofit sector to offset the economic crash.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Foundation Center Focus on the Financial Crisis The map image above is an interactive map that displays the distribution of the most recent support by U.S. It's part of the Foundation Center's aggregated page of articles, podcasts, data, and resources that Focus on the Financial Crisis. Drill down to see the details.

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Playing the Social Media Game with 100 Bay Area Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. They used "tagging" on Facebook to make people aware of the note. I used the wiki to take notes and add resources on the fly that come up during Q/A. What's the Hash Tag?

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. Steve Anderson continues his series on donation process maps.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results.