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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

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. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Citizen-Powered Response.

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The Single Most Important Thing to Prepare for Disasters

Tech Soup

On this 10th anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, we polled a variety of smart NPtech cognoscenti on the single most important thing charities need to do to prepare for a disaster. Amy Sample Ward — CEO, NTEN. Here's what they said. Have a plan, of course!

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Online Giving Trends from 2009 and the Haiti Earthquake

NTEN

The information in our 2009 research comes from approximately 2,300 nonprofit organizations using a combination of our online fundraising, email marketing, and integrated CRM tools. This represented 77% of the organizations in the sample analysis. 2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations.

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Online Giving Trends from 2009 and the Haiti Earthquake

NTEN

The information in our 2009 research comes from approximately 2,300 nonprofit organizations using a combination of our online fundraising, email marketing, and integrated CRM tools. This represented 77% of the organizations in the sample analysis. 2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations.

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Why Celebrity iCloud Hacking Should Matter to Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

In TechSoup's disaster planning and recovery guide , we recommend a 2x2x2 strategy for your mission-critical data, whether you're preparing for a hurricane or for a hacker. And these things do it automatically and never sleep. Back Up Your Data Securely.

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Win Back Your Lapsed Donors

Bloomerang

So hopefully, you have that information or have some idea of that information. Kari: So we’ve got three sample donors. And again, you may not have all of this information, but if you do, it can be really, really valuable. Because that’s important information to know. So let’s look at recency.

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An Amazing NpTech Social Media Link Buffet: Take Your Pick!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And because you probably can't eat that much - unless, of course, you're Joey Chestnut - you put many small samples on your plate instead. So, here's a few samplings from my digital buffet. To learn more about it, join the Mozilla crew and friends for a Twitter chat next Monday evening. But that would be a lot of content!

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