Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

This software includes assessment tools for evaluating students’ ability to problem solve, explain the relationships in complex systems, and comprehend informational texts and diagrams. SimCityEDU has been piloted by over 100 teachers and 3,000 students. Games provide tremendous opportunities for learning about real-world issues.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

FEMA App (Android, BlackBerry, iOS) contains disaster safety tips, interactive lists for storing your emergency kit and emergency meeting location information, and a map with open local shelters and open FEMA Disaster Recovery Centers. Mobile technologies can help people find shelter information in time of need. Can an app save lives?

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NTEN

AUGUST 30, 2011

The organization also worked with Twitter to create a special badge that marked volunteers' Twitter accounts as valid and official sources of information. The National Hurricane Center used their twitter account (separated by coast line, to @NHC_Atlantic & @NHC_Pacific) to post updates and weather advisories as the storm progressed.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

It can inform members of a community of critical information as it happens, and tell an event's story visually with maps, interactive charts, and other visualizations. One of the new things Ushahidi was doing was crowdsourcing information. Ushahidi would then compile and display the information in real time online on a map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

It takes you through the technologies and tools for each channel for different goals and offers up lots of case studies from organizations such as National Wildlife Federation, Red Cross, AARP, Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, American Museum of Natural History, SEIU and others. Click to see larger version.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

The rise of mobile, social media, crowdsourcing, blogging, and citizen journalism in the mid-2000s created extraordinary new communication and information-sharing opportunities. One of the most innovative things about Ushahidi was that it was a platform for crowdsourcing information. Ushahidi Harnesses Data for Social Good.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Once you've downloaded the app, all this information is accessible regardless of whether you have phone service or internet access during an emergency. Shelter information is updated every 30 minutes. Concerned parties can then search for information and updates using the message sender's email address.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 3, 2010

77 percent of respondents were aware of the Haiti text-to-donate efforts. 17 percent of Gen Y respondents and 14 percent of Gen X made a donation to Haiti relief efforts via text message, and 3 percent of both Boomer and Mature respondents made a donation to Haiti relief efforts via text message.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi. Those of us in developed nations are fortunate in some ways that great amounts of data are available -- data about our people, places, and activities.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi. Those of us in developed nations are fortunate in some ways that great amounts of data are available -- data about our people, places, and activities.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

In response to the 2010 crisis in Haiti , SAP employees contributed US$530,000 for immediate aid, and the company plans to match this over a two-year period. According to the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) Seven Billion Actions.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The technology scene today is distinguished by the growing connectivity among devices, mobile phones, the PC, and the browser, which enable people and organizations to access information, communicate, and collaborate in more powerful ways. This portal was also launched at the onset of the Haiti earthquake and utilized by relief organizations.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The technology scene today is distinguished by the growing connectivity among devices, mobile phones, the PC, and the browser, which enable people and organizations to access information, communicate, and collaborate in more powerful ways. This portal was also launched at the onset of the Haiti earthquake and utilized by relief organizations.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Cloud computing offers us all the same freedom for our information infrastructure. In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work. CrisisCamps took off after the earthquake in Haiti.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Cloud computing offers us all the same freedom for our information infrastructure. In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work. CrisisCamps took off after the earthquake in Haiti.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Reach out to the media with a local angle on a national story. If you see a story in the national news that is relevant to your work in the local community, that can be a great time to be a resource to your local media, offering them a local story. If you can’t figure out which reporter, find the Assignment Editor’s information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Crowdsourcing also provided information on gas stations that were still open (and where lines were actually moving). In Haiti, for example, which was not even in the storm’s direct path, Sandy wiped out 40% of the autumn crop. Through our nation’s history, this light has served as a beacon to millions looking for a better life.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 22, 2010

Working with our friends at Sea Change Strategies and Edge Research announced the results of a first-of-its-kind national research study into the charitable giving behaviors and attitudes across Gen Y, Gen X, Boomers and Matures. This is the same team that brought you the "Wired Wealthy." There is more to come. (I

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Sure, he raised over $20 million for Haiti and an impressive array of non-profit organizations including American Red Cross , Oxfam America , Salvation Army , Habitat for Humanity , International Rescue Committee , and the United Nations Foundation used his services. I really am, but I hope he doesn’t let it go to his head.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2010

Working with our friends at Sea Change Strategies and Edge Research announced the results of a first-of-its-kind national research study into the charitable giving behaviors and attitudes across Gen Y, Gen X, Boomers and Matures. This is the same team that brought you the "Wired Wealthy." There is more to come. (I

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

I’ll review some new green IT developments like how nonprofit solar electricity is thriving in Haiti. Green IT: Glad Tidings from Haiti. We’re used to hearing nothing but bad news from Haiti since it was hit by a succession of catastrophic events since 2010. Sanebox starts at $2 per month per user.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

Areas served: US (primarily Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, & New Orleans), Mexico, Haiti. The primary purpose of their work is dedicated to Indigenous Peoples’ self-determination and the sovereignty of Native nations, while advancing the effectiveness of Indigenous-led work. The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation.

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APRIL 7, 2022

Areas served: US (primarily Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, & New Orleans), Mexico, Haiti. The primary purpose of their work is dedicated to Indigenous Peoples’ self-determination and the sovereignty of Native nations, while advancing the effectiveness of Indigenous-led work. The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

And somewhere on the internet this information is quietly collecting. I don’t have an identity grounded in an single culture, nation or land. You see densities of information where you had memorable events, and long silences where you were buried in depression from being dumped. Newspapers know how to present information.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The coalition includes the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University , GuideStar USA , the Foundation Center , the Urban Institute’s National Center for Charitable Statistics , the Association of Fundraising Professionals and Blackbaud. The 34 page report contains a lot of information across a broad range of questions.

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sgEngage

APRIL 15, 2011

This increase is especially noteworthy considering the substantial giving to Haiti in the prior year period.” This decrease continues a trend from January and is attributable to the large amount of Haiti relief giving in 2010. million in yearly revenue on a monthly basis.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2016

The Red Cross led the nonprofit texting revolution back in 2010 when it launched a successful mobile campaign to ask for donations for the earthquake victims of Haiti. SMS is a great way to spread information and educate the people you want to reach most. In the U.S. Back then, only 27 percent of the U.S. population had a smartphone.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 5, 2011

In the past year, with the help of donations from his fans, Carlo has donated over $4,000 to charities across the nation. For more information about Carlo and his mission, check out his blog. For example, I think it's important to donate to Japan and Haiti and other places that have suffered from natural disasters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

According to a recent national poll , when price and quality are equal, 77 percent will choose a brand that supports a cause. This article summarizes new research from Forrester detailing "The Seven Tenets of the Information Workplace." Holly Ross at NTEN writes about a new ring tone, " Why don't you just shut up?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

And yes, it may mean that a group in Argentina, that is certainly deserving by our basic standards, may not get a grant this year, so that we can support very worthwhile and important requests from a group that has even less access to resources in Haiti. I think my comment in The Nation was really more about that.

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