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Ushahidi Wins MacArthur Award: Changing the World One Map at a Time

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Following the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 and the tsumani in Japan in 2011, the Ushahidi platform was used to organize emergency responses in real-time.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

I’m joining a panel to talk about the response for support after the Haiti earthquakes last year. The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Examples from Haiti. Indirect Content. Now for indirect content or Mash-ups.

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

Tech Soup

Ushahidi , winner of the 2008 NetSquared Challenge first attracted widespread attention for their work aggregating and mapping real-time reports from victims and relief workers in the violent aftermath of the 2007 Presidential election (see Ushahidi's legacy page for an archived version of this amazing tool). read more.

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Online Giving Potential: How to Bounce Back From Months of Decreased Fundraising

NetWits

Nevertheless, there are ways to put your earnings back on the map when the monetary tides turn against you. The international sector’s online fundraising dropped by 55 percent after the 2010 Haiti earthquake brought in “unprecedented online fundraising levels.”.

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How Effective was Crisis Mapping During the 2011 Japan Earthquake? | TechPresident

AFP Blog

How Effective was Crisis Mapping During the 2011 Japan Earthquake? TechPresident : Compared to similar efforts put to use in the 2010 Haiti earthquake, not as consistently.

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A Few of Your Favorite Things (Best of "Things We Like" 2010)

NTEN

After all, there's no guarantee that, without our fine cat video curation, you'd always end up with something as funny as " Staticky Cat vs. Balloon ", let alone our most popular link: Yes, gentle readers, it gives us great pleasure to re-present your 2010 "Things We Like" champion: " An Engineer's Guide to Cats ". (We

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A Few of Your Favorite Things (Best of "Things We Like" 2010)

NTEN

After all, there's no guarantee that, without our fine cat video curation, you'd always end up with something as funny as " Staticky Cat vs. Balloon ", let alone our most popular link: Yes, gentle readers, it gives us great pleasure to re-present your 2010 "Things We Like" champion: " An Engineer's Guide to Cats ". (We

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