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The Social Media Response to Disaster in Haiti

NTEN

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. But the way we think about and turn to social media in a time of disaster is changing. Fundraising.

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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. It evolves to meet our changing needs, to fit our changing lifestyles, and to integrate into the way we do our work. Examples from Haiti. Let’s look at a couple of the main examples from the Haiti earthquake response.

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Blackbaud Index for April 2011

sgEngage

Blackbaud updates these indices each month and they are based on a three-month moving average of year- over-year percent changes in revenue. billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online. This decrease continues a trend from January and is attributable to the large amount of Haiti relief giving in 2010.

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The End of the Beginning of Online Giving

Connection Cafe

Let me also suggest that we need to stop placing a wall between offline and online giving strategies and tactics. And donors that are 55-years and older have the highest retention rates for both online and offline giving. This online versus offline wall is mostly in our own heads. of total sales. It’s in our org charts.

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How Digital Democracy Empowers Marginalized Communities

Tech Soup

For example, in post-earthquake Haiti, Dd trained and empowered local women to track and document incidents of gender-based violence. In her talk, Jacobi noted: "Traditionally marginalized groups like indigenous populations or the grassroots women in Haiti, when they are just telling their own stories, often they are not listened to.

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Millennial Innovators: Meet Ecoviate, GiveMob, and Scholarships Expanding Education (SEE)

NTEN

I was especially intrigued about this part of the event because, with the help of our friends at LimeRed Studios, NTEN is planning its own Idea Accelerator at the Leading Change Summit this September.) Pitch-It competition. (I billion motor vehicles in the world today; 2.4 million pounds of CO2 released per second. In the U.S.,

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Chase Community Giving Contest: The Organizations on the Leaderboard Go Up and Down

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The second round of the contest opened on January 15th and the pre-contest promotion on January 14th on the contest fan page was met with a chorus of "Vote for Haiti." Chase had, in face, already donated to the relief efforts, although the link to the corporate press release was not posted on the Fan Page all until two days later.

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