Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

As we have seen in natural disasters from Hurricane Katrina to the Chile Earthquake, people are using social media to reach out for help. This will facilitate a self-organized, community scrapbook of the event from attendees. During an emergency, 41% of respondents would use social media to let their love ones know they are safe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Ben Horin noted that TechSoup Global did not have a partner in Haiti, but they did in Chile. This enables us to have impact, scale and sustainability. “ Unleashing Technology. View more presentations from Akhtarbad. Horin also said that other partners in the TechSoup Global network responded to requests for donations and assistance.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

In Puerto Rico and Chile, there are museums made out of posters so that kids in parks can come and visit real art—well, it’s not real art, but you’re getting access to Picasso for $5. So I think the facilitation of that makes for a new museum. The question you have to ask is: who are the people who have issues with what they are doing?

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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.

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