Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. It is not just that people need to know of a technology, but they really need to have it already integrated into the way they communicate and share for adoption to take hold during a crisis.

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Disaster Social Media Haiti Media 206

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Very cool project from 2008: Twitter Vote Report.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

In just 50 minutes Laura Quinn of Idealware , Natalie Foster of the DNC and Rebecca Moore of Google Earth Outreach talked about a ton of great tools to ramp up nonprofits online campaigns ranging from Wikis to Google Earth and Twittter. May 15, 2009 | Anne Dougherty Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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Social Media Tools Online Advocacy 34

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Josh Bernhoff, Social Technographics 2008 3. Is there an “offline” marketing push that you need to support/connect? But as adoption of social media becomes more "mainstreamed," homebase could be your blog or both. Remember, social media can also be used to connect people to offline actions and events. by Beth Kanter.

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