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Interview: SXSW4Japan Raises over $120,000 #sxswcares

Amy Sample Ward

Last month, the Japan earthquake and tsunami occurred on March 11th 2011, the first day of the conference. That morning, I saw the jaw-dropping photos and videos from the Japan tsunami disaster. Meanwhile, bloggers Leigh Duncan and Deb Ng were starting a grassroots effort to raise awareness and support for the Japan disaster too.

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Great reads from around the web on April 8th

Amy Sample Ward

" 6 questions to prepare you for a social media crisis – "In social media, the disasters people talk about most are fundamentally crises of public relations. These fall into two types: crises that originate in social media, and crises that originate offline.

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Social Media for Social Good Video Roundup from #BBCon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Questions for you … Will the fragmentation of online fundraising effect non-profits? Next, focus on your goals – Are you trying to raise a million dollars or mobilize a group of offline volunteers? Check out the video. Negatively? Positively?

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He mentioned that he ad done a great deal of research. He was asking his local guide a lot of questions about what was and what wasn't appropriate. He pointed to the Japanese wikipedia page noting that in Japan, the cultural norm is for the group to discuss the page in the discussion area before developing the content together.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

So ask questions, use that chat box. In fact, we may call on you to answer some questions of ours as well. And so I have more than five years of experience creating online and offline communities to support social and environmental causes as Steven said and I worked a lot in Latin America. But most importantly, chat in.

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Disaster Giving and The Blackbaud Index

sgEngage

billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online. Disaster Giving Giving both online and offline towards disaster relief had a significant impact on the nonprofit sector in 2010. Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami Blackbaud is monitoring early giving data from the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.