Community Disaster Map Sample 
Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 19, 2011
My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world. Why Social Media?
NTEN
FEBRUARY 17, 2010
Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. When disaster strikes, we want information as soon as possible and we want to help just as quickly. But the way we think about and turn to social media in a time of disaster is changing. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world.
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Amy Sample Ward
JUNE 6, 2011
Technology and Community: Strategic Options for Movement Building. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. How many people hear that word and think it is just as generic as the word community? To that end, siloed brands are replaced by unifying goals that rally more than select individuals but entire communities.
Get Fully Funded
JANUARY 1, 2024
The more detail you include in your fundraising plan template, the easier fundraising will be throughout the year because you’ll always know what to do next with no more guessing or DIY disasters. You also have the chance to start identifying ideal donor prospects and create a plan for finding them in the community.
Amy Sample Ward
DECEMBER 26, 2011
Be as we have seen in events around the world, the revolution will be tweeted, photographed, mapped and posted to our status. 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. Brought to you Live.
Amy Sample Ward
APRIL 27, 2009
I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. listening has been to the community and to the quantitative results. Below is the live blog or the archive of the live blog. Can’t wait! How do you use a RSS feed like a rockstar?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 19, 2013
There is so much data coming in at a fast past, with 4,000 tweets per day – a number that skyrockets during a disaster. We also discussed that it would be useful to have a map or fuller array of case studies that illustrate how the data might be used for different interventions. Crisis communication strategy.
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