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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world. Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more.

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Webinar: Converting Prospects to Multichannel Gold

Care2

can dramatically improve response rates. He learned private sector database marketing techniques at Capital One, where he managed marketing and business development teams in both online and direct mail divisions. Annual revenues are often 4x that of direct mail only donors, with higher retention and much better net.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

By harnessing that passion of other people who saw the same vision, and wanted to make it happen, I built a pro bono team for the better part of three years. A lot of attention on team, it's probably the hardest thing because you have to keep getting out of your own way. And the team brings a lot of wisdom there.

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The Mismeasure of War

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our human rights team cares deeply about the issue of truth in human rights reporting. In our opinion, the HSR authors have done the IRC and the community of human rights analysts a service by highlighting errors in the Congo survey. Tags: IRC mortality human rights Congo HSR warfare. Quite the opposite.

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