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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

NTEN

On January 12, 2010, I didn't personally experience the major earthquake that hit Haiti, but I was forever changed by it. In the midst of the viral Text HAITI to 90999 message, we saw the emergence of what we're calling emergency social data, or #crisisdata. social tools + people = lives saved. . Crisis data = people .

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American College of Preventive Medicine’s Annual Conference

Amy Sample Ward

Topic : Social Media in Disaster Response. Description : Social media tools allow for people to connect: broadcasting messages to real time communication, online networking to offline collaboration. Date : February 19th, 2011. Location : San Antonio, TX. Related Links : Conference website.

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Microsoft’s Networked Approach To Accelerating Social Change Through Technology

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

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It's Already September? (Or: Two Thirds of a Year's Worth of Fundraising Resources)

NTEN

We also partnered with Sea Change Strategies and Care2 way back in July (when we thought summer would last forever) to present a webinar called the Overachiever's Guide to Year-End fundraising. You can find a more recent update that focuses on the Facebook fundraising efforts of the Red Cross since Haiti on Inside Facebook.

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The New Culture of Storytelling

Forum One

My presentation in particular addressed the challenge of incorporating story telling into an organization's everyday behavior and addressed the fact that the act of collecting and sharing success stories does not happen in a vacuum. Some groups that sent staff writers to document the Haiti Crisis include: International Medical Corps.

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

These challenges helped provide early publicity, support, collaboration opportunities, and funding for now-famous "tech for good" organizations such as Ushahidi , FrontlineSMS , and many others. Finalists were invited to present in person to the NetSquared community at a one-day conference.

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The Networked Nonprofit in Kenya

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ushahidi has had impressive growth over the past 18 months and most visible was its work with Haiti. Ushahidi’s board , like its staff , work together virtually across many time zones using different online tools for meetings and collaborative work. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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