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Which Company is the Most Socially Responsible and Generous to Nonprofits: Facebook? Twitter? YouTube? LinkedIn? MySpace? Flickr? Google?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Google donated $1,000,000 to Haiti. LinkedIn launched LinkedIn for Good , but they only partnered with 10 organizations and are not accepting new partners. org to help raise funds for Haiti and to end malaria. supports nonprofits in many ways through their Yahoo! Owned by Yahoo!, 2) Google/YouTube. 3) LinkedIn.

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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. Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. Examples from Haiti. Let’s look at a couple of the main examples from the Haiti earthquake response.

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

These challenges helped provide early publicity, support, collaboration opportunities, and funding for now-famous "tech for good" organizations such as Ushahidi , FrontlineSMS , and many others. Relief organizations and others could get an immediate picture of what was happening on the ground.

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The Social Sector Cloud

NTEN

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. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook.

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The Social Sector Cloud

NTEN

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. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook.

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You Are Never Too Old To Change The World!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Almost ten years ago, she founded a nonprofit organization, The Sharing Foundation , dedicated to meeting the physical, emotional, educational, and medical needs of orphaned and seriously- disadvantaged children in Cambodia. be it Cambodia, Africa or Haiti.??? Nancy Hendrie, a retired pediatrician in her seventies, who didn???t

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Changing the World One Gift at a Time: An Interview with Deron Beal of the Freecycle Network

Have Fun - Do Good

I was a member of my neighborhood association at the time, and that was a Yahoo group, so I said, "Why not just set up a Yahoo group? I sent out one email to 30 or 40 friends and a handful of local nonprofits announcing the start of this Yahoo group. Then she got FedEx to pay to ship the whole thing over to Haiti.