Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2010

Located the family I lived with in Chile. RT @JeffVallarta #Chile, help me find godson Amaro $ family: Eric Rojas e Ingrid Sepulveda, Melepilla, 601-5063, 8-568-5570, 9-423-1180. 8) Using information from Crisis Commons and Ushahidi (9) Networking with professional colleagues online by leaving messages on their FB or Twitter.

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Chile Spain Help Disaster 94

NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

We set up the home bases, provide mission-related information, and enjoy all the people who come in to play. But I wasn't prepared for the type of incoming information I saw in the weeks after January 12, 2010. . Unfortunately, this isn't Domino's Pizza and disaster response can't work as if it is. Crisis data = people .

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Disaster Haiti Los Angeles Social Media 89

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

The real-time web is a paradigm based on pushing information to users as soon as it’s available, instead of requiring that they or their software check a source periodically for updates. The real-time web has also revolutionized the way we support local communities in disaster. The internet is not new.

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Philanthropy Social Media Media Social 244

sgEngage

MAY 10, 2011

Earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, and New Zealand along with floods and landslides in other parts of the world drove donors to give online. All four of the Social Services organizations raised a significant amount of their online giving because of disaster relief efforts.

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Online Fundraising Blackbaud Chile 111

Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2013

Miguel Paz, the founder of Hacks/Hackers Chile in partnership with Mariano Blejman of Argentina’s Hacks/Hackers network , and with the support of the World Bank Institute’s Global Media Development program intends to open data from across Latin America through their OpenData Latinoamérica project. Image: NetSquared.

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