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Technology Toolbox: Learn from Occupy Wall Street to Occupy YOUR Street

Amy Sample Ward

The revolution may not be televised, but no matter where you are, you can now have a front row seat to the broadcast. Over the past few years, the use of social technologies during disaster response has become a central component to news and information delivery. Online Homebase. One key element is the use of an online homebase.

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How a Simple Facebook Strategy Can Turn a Crisis into a Community

NTEN

In the middle of the process of purchasing a backup generator, thanks to a federal grant, the station turned to the next available medium to continue the broadcast: their website and social media outlets. Shortly after the fire began, KRTS lost power to their terrestrial signal.

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50 Nonprofits To Be Grateful For This Thanksgiving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Because they are always the first to arrive on the scene after a natural disaster. Feeding America. Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Because 3-4 million cats and dogs are euthanized each year in America. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Flickr. American Red Cross. Amnesty International. Habitat for Humanity.

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50 Nonprofits To Be Grateful For This Thanksgiving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Because they are always the first to arrive on the scene after a natural disaster. Feeding America. Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Because 3-4 million cats and dogs are euthanized each year in America. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Flickr. American Red Cross. Amnesty International. Habitat for Humanity.

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Great reads from around the web on March 21st

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). The launch of a Digital Volunteer program will help Red Cross respond to questions and information from the public during disasters."

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Blackbaud Index for February 2011

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These organizations are defined by Giving USA as museums of all kinds, historical societies, humanities organizations; and media and communication charities, including public broadcasting. Blackbaud used these organizations’ National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) codes as reported on their 990 tax returns for grouping purposes.

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If we’d had Twitter on 9/11

Connection Cafe

Because I can imagine how I’d have instinctively, obsessively pulled up my feed, to check the pulse of the planet again and again and again. It wasn’t yet my turn to drive, and I’d have been broadcasting observations all morning, with nothing better to contribute. No satellite radio yet. Because things have changed.

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