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. They were on a bus to Stgo during the night when the quake hit. Located best friends Carlos/Erika in Talca near the epicenter.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

We have a robust social media presence on all the sites you'd expect: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and our blog. Unfortunately, this isn't Domino's Pizza and disaster response can't work as if it is. The American Red Cross is now looking into how best to give the public an increased role in disaster response.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

The online survey asked 1,058 adults about their use of social media sites in emergency situations. As we have seen in natural disasters from Hurricane Katrina to the Chile Earthquake, people are using social media to reach out for help. And they expect a response from emergency and disaster response organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Ed Granger-Happ, Nethope; Claire Bonilla, Disaster Response Microsoft; Daniel Ben-Horin, TechSoup Global, Vida Durant, CARE USA. Or the Web site Microsoft Hohm that lets people calculate their energy footprint and get tips on conservation. Ben Horin noted that TechSoup Global did not have a partner in Haiti, but they did in Chile.

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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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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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