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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

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. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Why Social Media?

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Why Celebrity iCloud Hacking Should Matter to Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

If you pay attention to the news, you may have recently heard about a major Internet hacking of celebrity phones and devices , in which hundreds of photos were leaked to the wider Internet. apps Backing Up Data Cloud security Using the Web and Internet nonprofits mobile phones cloud computing privacy data'

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49 Online Fundraising Ideas to Help You Raise More

Qgiv

Ever since the advent of the internet, the retail landscape has changed drastically. In the aftermath of a disaster, whether it be a devastating hurricane that has left your community flooded or a wildfire that has forced your community to leave their homes behind, you’ll need to mobilize quickly to provide support.

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Advice from Grantmakers on Streamlining Your Tech Solutions

sgEngage

This wasn’t Tacker’s first go at responding to a disaster. Through hurricanes, fires, floods, the pandemic, and more, Two Ten awards millions of dollars in emergency relief each year, and they rely 100% on donor dollars to do it. Many of these people told us this was the first financial help they received.”

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Tech Policies for Virtual Teams: A Leader’s Responsibility

Non Profit Quarterly

And the question was really, were the networks and the Internet bandwidth for each person’s home adequate enough to do the job? Working on a personal PC, what are the requirements in terms of applications and standardization? Will there be a strict policy on non-work-related applications and services? Things like that.

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