Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Description : Social media tools allow for people to connect: broadcasting messages to real time communication, online networking to offline collaboration. Topic : Social Media in Disaster Response. Related Links : Conference website.

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NCE Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2010

Social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter have proven to be a way for people to communicate during a crisis. It is how some of the major charities providing relief and news outlets are broadcasting their stories and information. How would you provide services?

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Learning Haiti Europe Broadcast 109

NetWits

APRIL 4, 2012

Every fundraiser knows the role that social media users played in delivering dollars to the American Red Cross for disaster relief in Haiti and to Planned Parenthood for mammogram screenings in the wake of the Komen Foundation’s withdrawal of funding, but actually how social media delivers such results has been a bit of mystery.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 22, 2010

Today, Jordan Viator, our super communications manager for all things interactive, fun and digital was featured in The New York Times about using Foursquare to broadcast to her friends where she is during SXSW Interactive. Of course, I probably wondered why anyone would use Facebook and Twitter at some point and now I use them regularly.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2010

Today, Jordan Viator, our super communications manager for all things interactive, fun and digital was featured in The New York Times about using Foursquare to broadcast to her friends where she is during SXSW Interactive. Of course, I probably wondered why anyone would use Facebook and Twitter at some point and now I use them regularly.

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Generation Jordan Demographics Haiti 20

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

Maybe it’s because I spent so many of the dark hours that followed cut-off from my community – so disconnected from friends & family, on a business trip that mutated into a frantic 2-day race home through the desert Southwest – that I started to consider what it would have been like if we’d had Twitter on 9/11.

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