Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

I’m joining a panel to talk about the response for support after the Haiti earthquakes last year. 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.

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VisionLink

APRIL 24, 2015

Medical Surplus Recovery Organizations (MSROs) provide doctors, nurses and community healthcare workers with the tools they need to treat more patients and improve the standard of care in their community. VisionLink’s commitment to drawing attention to community needs both domestically and internationally does not stop with our work in Haiti.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2011

If decision makers simply had a map, they could have made better decisions more quickly, more accurately, and with less complication than if they had tried to use crowdsourcing. In the comments to our last post, Jon from Ushahidi said "If a tool's fitness cannot be absolute, then neither can it's fallibility." So, we’re speaking up.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

On January 12, 2010, I didn't personally experience the major earthquake that hit Haiti, but I was forever changed by it. social tools + people = lives saved. . social tools + people = lives saved. . Now they have the tools. By Wendy Harman, Social Media Director, American Red Cross. Crisis data = people .

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

After escaping he was left homeless and living on the streets of Haiti until discovered by Haiti Mama , a nonprofit organization committed to connecting homeless children with their families. Most orphaned and vulnerable children in Haiti are not as fortunate. There is hope.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2015

Fast Company's definitions for "innovative" ranges from hyperbole used unironically ("For creating magic with minutiae" — Apple), to relatively reasonable ("For selling good, cheap food to children who need it the most" — Revolution Foods). The Howard G.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And so before their case for support was even dry, before they mapped out their gift tables, their leadership team was. . You know, that’s where you have those visual tools to put in front of a donor that they can go, “Ah, I see. But again, the capital campaign is about a sequence of events. That really is neat.”

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