Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 19, 2011
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?
Tech Soup
APRIL 22, 2013
TechSoup recently updated its disaster planning and recovery guide, The Resilient Organization , to include the new ways nonprofits, charities, and public libraries are using technology. To supplement this section, we compiled the best disaster preparedness apps from TechSoup donation partners, government agencies, other nonprofits, and more.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 10, 2010
It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. As we have seen in natural disasters from Hurricane Katrina to the Chile Earthquake, people are using social media to reach out for help.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 12, 2010
The Red Cross is hosting the Emergency Social Data Summit today Thursday, August 12, 2010 from 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM (ET). If there are any questions, please contact Kami Huyse at @kamichat, kami@zoeticamedia.com or Geoff Livingston, @geoffliving, geoff@zoeticamedia.com. You can participate remotely.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
APRIL 10, 2008
It is made up of people who are techically-oriented, largely affluent, and largely spend inordinate amounts of time in contact with electronic devices. But right now, at this moment, twitter’s demographic is both tiny and highly nonrepresentative of the population of the world. And, wow, yeah, you can be highly successful in twitter.
ASU Lodestar Center
JANUARY 19, 2016
But the days of these donors only having knowledge of, and contact with your organization through personal face-to-face interaction are long gone. The most successful social media fundraising is done for problems with immediate, time-sensitive solutions like disaster relief or book drives.
NTEN
MARCH 19, 2010
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