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Micro Volunteering for the Haiti Earthquake

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Like many people, I donated both on the Web and for the first time via text to the Red Cross. Here you will find opportunities to donate your tech skills to Haiti. They have created a Haiti support page to harness the power of the crowd to help locate and identify missing persons with just a few minutes of your time. .

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7 “Must Do’s” When Thanking Donors To Win Their Heart and Set Up Future Gifts

Get Fully Funded

In fact, here’s my list of 7 ‘must do’s’ when thanking donors, so the donor feels warm and fuzzy about the donation they just made and is receptive to giving the next time you ask. Your email thank-you should arrive immediately after a donation is made online. Your donation makes it possible for us to provide food for more people.

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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. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone. Examples from Haiti. Let’s look at a couple of the main examples from the Haiti earthquake response.

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Five Simple (and Fun) Ways to Promote Nonprofits on FourSquare

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FourSquare is definitely starting to catch on with enterprising techie folks that love to be early adopters. Add their address, phone and Twitter ID (search their website and Google to see what their Twitter ID is). That’s a good a sign. Make sure you spell out the name of the nonprofit. Don’t use acronyms.

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10 Nonprofit Text Alert Campaigns

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Not to be confused with Text-to-Give campaigns (Text HAITI to 90999 to donate $10 to the Red Cross), text alert campaigns are when individuals opt-in to be alerted of breaking news or calls to action via text message. Check out their “Donate Now&# page on their mobile website. World Wildlife Fund :: Subscribe.

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Mobile donations and dating – The world has changed

Connection Cafe

My mobile phone’s GPS has also changed getting me to the right place mostly on time. Of all the communication technology the mobile phone is probably as disruptive as any. million people used their cell phone to donate. 77 percent of respondents were aware of the Haiti text-to-donate efforts.

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Sorry, You Can't Say That: Text Message Censorship

NTEN

Since the earthquake in Haiti, we've seen an explosion in interest for all things mobile. Donations via text messages , tweeting real-time updates , mapping need and resources : all examples of stories that captured our sector's attention and got people talking about mobile. The time for mobile is clearly now.

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