Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

.” Many consumers may find it difficult to find the useful and accessible information — and when you consider that there are 30 billion health related google searches a year, it can be a challenge not to get overwhelmed or go down the wrong path. This “Dr. Carrie Martin Munk, The ALS Association.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. So, why shouldn’t our information, data, actions, and search happen in real time as well?

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See3

OCTOBER 29, 2007

New Orleans had problems long before the hurricane and the destruction only has exacerbated a long list of problems. I am on the national Board of Directors of AVODAH and yesterday, in an all-day meeting in New York, we decided to greenlight the expansion to New Orleans. But here we are, two years later. New Orleans is in trouble.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

We're all familiar with it, a message saying "Help the recovery from Hurricane Sandy. Improved search. A mobile website provides improved rankings on mobile-friendly search engines such as Google and Bing. Text MUTUALAID to 69866 to donate $10." Mobile websites are specifically designed for small screens.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. Technorati (the first blog search engine at that time). Net Tuesdays became a series of national and international face-to-face meetings connecting industry and nonprofit techies. " The year was 2005. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. Google Maps.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

In TechSoup's disaster planning and recovery guide , we recommend a 2x2x2 strategy for your mission-critical data, whether you're preparing for a hurricane or for a hacker. The National Cyber Security Alliance has myriad resources for individuals, teachers, and businesses on staying safe online. Back Up Your Data Securely.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2005

Then I did a general search for YMCA and Katrina and found that: the YMCA of Houston is housing evacuees, and the YMCA of Ann Arbor Michigan is collecting gift cards from national chains and sending them down to the Houston Y. The YMCA of San Antonio is matching all employee contributions to its Katrina fund.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 5, 2022

billion ( National Retail Foundation 2017 Survey ) Father’s Day: $15.5 Let’s take a second to play a quick association game: Think about a natural disaster, such as a hurricane or an earthquake. Your organization also needs to show up in search, news, and grassroots efforts by your supporters to make it a staple.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2006

She did a lot of work on the hurricane aftermath (she's an expert on hazardous waste, and a gazillion other things). The two places I looked for mechanisms are the (1) United Nations APELL program (Awareness and Preparedness for Emergencies on a Local Level) and (2) the U.S. I thought her comments would be worth posting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

ServiceNation , a national campaign to increase service opportunities and elevate the importance of service in America, has received a $500,000 grant from Facebook as part of its expanded partnership. September is Preparedness Month: We know that September is usually a bad month for hurricanes and other natural disasters.

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Care2

JANUARY 23, 2008

60) Search « Join WVU for Integrated Marketing Degree Information Session | Main | So Easy, a Chicken Could Do It: frogloop 2008 Reader Survey » Wednesday Jan 23 2008 Who Will Be the Next $100,000 Purpose Prize Winner? She and Murphy were called to immediate service to search the rubble of the Oklahoma City bombing.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

If we go higher than this, we are looking at huge rises in sea levels, complete collapse of ocean ecosystems and more and more unpredictable extreme weather events like hurricanes and tsunamis. Eleven years to keep climate change under 1.5 But what they also tell us is there is still time, if we do act. Conserve your water.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

If we go higher than this, we are looking at huge rises in sea levels, complete collapse of ocean ecosystems and more and more unpredictable extreme weather events like hurricanes and tsunamis. Eleven years to keep climate change under 1.5 But what they also tell us is there is still time, if we do act. Conserve your water.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

a day is also still poverty even in the poorest nations. So on a whim I went to google and searched on “good news that happened today.&# When afterwilma debuted, I like many others felt an affinity to the people afflicted by the hurricane. link] has more examples of how much $700 billion is in a poverty context.

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Care2

JUNE 29, 2009

60) Search « Top 8 Social Media Tracking Tools | Main | Strategies For Optimizing Your Nonprofits Website » Sunday Jun 28 2009 Fundraising Dips In First Quarter Of 2009 Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 07:44PM | by Allyson Kapin The struggling economy hit nonprofits hard in the first quarter of 2009. Gulf Coast hurricanes of 2005.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

So, last spring Ella Baker Center, to launch its new program Reclaim the Future, took a big role in the United Nations World Environment Day Conference that was happening here in San Francisco. It's an amazing act of love really in response to the hurricane and the racial neglect that occurred down on the Gulf. It might be writing.

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