Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On the morning of July 7th, a page was created for the events taking place in central London and as both television news and personal witnesses revealed more information the page content grew – by the minute. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Note from Beth: Here’s a guest post from my colleague Steve MacLaughlin that is a great example of “ data informed fundraising.” What about Hurricane Sandy? Are people going to give less because they donated to Hurricane Sandy relief? Hurricane Sandy is unlikely to have a significant impact on this trend.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 27, 2017

As mobile phone use continues to surge, texting is becoming an increasingly relevant tool for nonprofits. Mobile phone subscriptions worldwide were at 4.01 A recent study shows that, for every 1000 email subscribers, nonprofit organizations have 13 mobile subscribers. Mobile has simply become too big to ignore.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

If you pay attention to the news, you may have recently heard about a major Internet hacking of celebrity phones and devices , in which hundreds of photos were leaked to the wider Internet. Their iCloud online storage was targeted, and hackers stole personal data and photos from their mobile phones and iPads.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2015

On this 10th anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, we polled a variety of smart NPtech cognoscenti on the single most important thing charities need to do to prepare for a disaster. Voice over IP phones are probably the most important (and least utilized) technology for that purpose. Here's what they said.

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2012

iOS/Android: The First Aid app from the American Red Cross is a great example of why the content of an app should inform it’s functionality and design. This is a natural fit for the organization and they have plans for future apps focused on earthquake, hurricane, tornado, and flood preparedness. First Aid by American Red Cross.

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2012

First Aid by American Red Cross iOS/Android: The First Aid app from the American Red Cross is a great example of why the content of an app should inform it’s functionality and design. This is a natural fit for the organization and they have plans for future apps focused on earthquake, hurricane, tornado, and flood preparedness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Courtesy of Alexandra Rampy, publisher of SocialButterfly Mobile. Rather than go on, instead, I want to give some examples and highlight the cool factor of how mobile can add some out-of-the-box type thinking to an overall health and/or social marketing-related initiative. Cool Factor : Mobile as a research tool. Wide Reaching.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

She leads that Idealware team of researchers, presenters, writers, who create technology information resources, and as I said, we’re going to share a resource with all the participants at the end of this webinar, and I’m sure we’ll allude to it. Not really specifically to computers, but mobile devices. There is a learning curve.

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Tech Soup

JULY 19, 2013

surviving Mother Nature’s wrath: tornado, hurricane, flood, fire. information you’ll need to restore your technology infrastructure after a disaster or respond to any other unforeseen incidents. Disaster preparedness apps can help you back up a mobile phone or tablet to stay organized and updated during times of crisis.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

I got involved in some of the anti-globalization work at that time and my group, Art and Revolution, was doing a lot of education and outreach through dance and giant puppets and theater and doing a lot of tours to mobilize people to come to Seattle. I'll post all this information in my shownotes on my website, www.brittbravo.com.

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