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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. Whether it’s direct or indirect content, why do citizens turn to social media in moments of need or disaster?

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Lessons From Haiti: Uses of New Media in Disaster Recovery Efforts

Tech Soup

Even if you pay only glancing attention to news about technology and social media, you've probably heard something about their uses during disaster response and relief efforts. magnitude earthquake that devastated Haiti in January 2010. read more.

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Twitter and Nonprofits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. I love twitter, which in some ways surprises me, and in some ways doesn’t.

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

Ushahidi got its start in early 2008. Founder Erik Hersman and a group of fellow Kenyan bloggers were frustrated by the lack of accurate information or media coverage of the violence surrounding the 2008 Kenyan election. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008.

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Benchmarks Extra: Monthly Giving

NTEN

Working on our 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , we noticed something interesting when looking at year-over-year data by sector: The share of online revenue from monthly giving for International groups seemed to decline from 2009 to 2010. We decided to do some deeper digging to see if we were right!

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Online Giving Trends from 2009 and the Haiti Earthquake

NTEN

Blackbaud’s research found that online revenue grew by 46% in 2009 compared to 2008. This was a decrease of only 2% compared to December 2008. Another very positive sign was that online giving in December 2009 grew 32% compared to December 2008. The analysis also looked at a subset of the same 1,703 nonprofits in 2008 and 2009.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

In working with most nonprofits, I’ve found that they have a difficult time swallowing the fact that they have to lay out a big fat licensing fee, spend valuable cash on a vertical app or custom development and THEN have to hire highly priced experts or be at the mercy of volunteer DBAs… stuff fraught with disaster and frustration.