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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. org to help raise funds for Haiti and to end malaria. supports nonprofits in many ways through their Yahoo! Owned by Yahoo!, They also launched two Facebook Pages to help promote nonprofits and social causes: Facebook for Good and Non-Profits on Facebook. 2) Google/YouTube.

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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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Recap: Social Media for Social Impact

Forum One

Connie Chan from Yahoo! described how status updates and Flickr photos were used to spread awareness of Yahoo!'s It could be as simple as the hundreds of thousands of Yahoo's status updates from the "You In?" Proceeds from the event were donated to the American Red Cross Haiti Relief Fund. s " You In?

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

TechSoup partnered with agencies like USAID and tech companies like Microsoft and Yahoo to host these "tech for good" challenges annually via our NetSquared program. million posts or testimonies on Ushahidi to benefit an estimated 20 million people in stricken areas like Haiti in 2010 and Nepal in 2015.

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The Social Sector Cloud

NTEN

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. CrisisCamps took off after the earthquake in Haiti. With cloud computing, you access your software applications over the Internet using a web browser.

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The Social Sector Cloud

NTEN

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. CrisisCamps took off after the earthquake in Haiti. With cloud computing, you access your software applications over the Internet using a web browser.

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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.