Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

I grew up in a small town by the New Jersey shore in a house a block from the Atlantic Ocean that my elderly parents still live in today. With Hurricane threatening a direct hit and potential devastating damage, emergency officials called for a mandatory evacuation — something that hasn’t happened in many years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2012

As Hurricane Sandy was barreling up the Atlantic coast of the United States, a husband and wife in their early 90s, frail of body and mind though resolute (some would say stubborn) of spirit, finally gave in to the pleadings of their family. It’s not a nightmare,” I said, “It’s for real.”.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Among the things to consider are the recording medium (flash drives are becoming ubiquitous, but some cameras still use digital video tape) and transfer method — can you remove the media and plug it directly into your computer, or can you use a cable? An external microphone can drastically improve audio quality. Others are handheld.

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2008

You can dismiss some of these things as fads or just a flash in the pan. But it has also been driven by major events like 9/11 , the Asian Tsunami , and Hurricane Katrina. And this list of new-but-not-yet-perfected things will go on and on. You can choose to ignore it all, but that won't stop the changing tides. Change is messy.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2012

As Hurricane Sandy relief efforts continue, I'm reminded of the significant negative impact that poor weather can have on a fundraising event. Unforeseeable bad weather – flash flood or tornado. Catastrophe immediately before event – hurricane. nonprofits whose primary source of revenue comes from a single.

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Tech Soup

JULY 19, 2013

surviving Mother Nature’s wrath: tornado, hurricane, flood, fire. Create a Master Key – a simple USB flash drive where you keep all of the. We don’t mean the power-surge-ate-my-blog-post kind of disaster, though. frequent backups can help there. We’re thinking more along the lines of. inaccessible?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

you know, when Puerto Rico had that hurricane, you know, that was huge here. A, we understand how horrible it is to go through a hurricane, and B, a lot of people who live in Florida have family members in Puerto Rico. There’s no real, you know, flashing lights and, you know, “You suck,” or anything like that.

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