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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

According to the American Red Cross , A recent Red Cross survey asked 1,058 adults about their use of social media sites in emergency situations. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Free Ranger Rick, Green Geekery, and Blog Day is Next Week!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

as early adopters rather than the phenomenon being linked to youth." The AFP blog points to a press release from Firstgiving about the launch of a social networking site. Rayt allows users to rate the content of web sites by making a comment and also to rate other people's comments. young people??? " I agree.

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Nonprofit Technology News: The Demise of Facebook Causes and Cloud Storage for Charities

Tech Soup

Parker is an original investor in the political social media site, Votizen. Brigade will merge Votizen and Causes to create a political organizing site that will that will “tackle the problem of declining citizen power and engagement in democracy.” ” Sounds pretty good.

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