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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

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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American College of Preventive Medicine’s Annual Conference

Amy Sample Ward

Topic : Social Media in Disaster Response. This session explores some of the ways individuals and organizations have used social media in crisis situations, like the earthquake in Haiti, and how various tools and platforms have developed to match the specific needs of rescue or service efforts. Date : February 19th, 2011.

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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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Are Qwerty Monsters the Nonprofit Donors of the Future?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you skip that, your mobile tactics won’t yield much impact or learning. What we witnessed over a year ago with SMS donations to the Haiti disaster is not going to be the norm for nonprofits. View more presentations from Kyoo Slides. Maybe that first step is research. Qwerty Monsters.

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