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Making the most impact for Haiti relief: Avoiding Fundraising Fraud during Crisis

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In the past 8 days, the surge of generosity for Haiti relief has been amazing. Find a charity with a proven track record of success in providing disaster relief and one that has worked in Haiti. Do Not Give To The Haitian Government – Haiti is known to be a corrupt country. Author: Jordan Viator.

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Leveraging Twitter Influencers to Drive Social Good – a Success Story from Free The Kids

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One of the most recent examples I've seen that exemplifies this concept is from the organization Free The Kids that used its influencers earlier this year when the earthquake in Haiti struck. million + Twitter followers. One large influencer, author Neil Gaiman , shared the message sent to him which was dispersed to his 1.4

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“I just don’t get that generation.”

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Of course, I probably wondered why anyone would use Facebook and Twitter at some point and now I use them regularly. In the coming weeks we’ll be posting more information and hosting webinars, but for now, I wanted to introduce the research to you. I’ve put a lot of "duh moments" into these posts lately.)

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The End of the Beginning of Online Giving

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Here is a short list of innovations that happened after online giving began in 1999: Airbnb, Android, Bitcoin, Chrome, Dropbox, Etsy, Facebook, Github, Hashtags, iPod, iPhone, iPad, jQuery, Kindle, LinkedIn, MySpace, Netflix, Oculus Rift, Pinterest, Reddit, Slack, Tesla, Twitter, USB Flash Drive, Venmo, Wii, Xbox, YouTube, and the Zettabyte.

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“I just don’t get that generation.”

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Of course, I probably wondered why anyone would use Facebook and Twitter at some point and now I use them regularly. In the coming weeks we’ll be posting more information and hosting webinars, but for now, I wanted to introduce the research to you. I’ve put a lot of "duh moments" into these posts lately.)

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If we’d had Twitter on 9/11

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Maybe it’s because I spent so many of the dark hours that followed cut-off from my community – so disconnected from friends & family, on a business trip that mutated into a frantic 2-day race home through the desert Southwest – that I started to consider what it would have been like if we’d had Twitter on 9/11.

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