Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 19, 2011
It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites.
NTEN
FEBRUARY 17, 2010
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. What we often think of as "social media" has given way to a larger movement, known as the Real-Time Web.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 23, 2007
What is interesting to me about this concept of a platform for change that is very different from say - campaigns on social networking sites like Facebook or the use of widgets and charity badges on blogs for personal fundraising campaigns -- is that while Virtual Worlds are empowering individuals -- we are empowering collective action.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
Facebook’s grant will encourage users of the social network to learn more about service opportunities through ServiceNation’s Facebook Page and connect with MyNation, a new, online social-networking community on ServiceNation.org being launched in preparation for the first National Day of Service on September 11, 2009.
Museum 2.0
JULY 29, 2008
For example, most social networks are walled gardens. What I post on my Facebook page is only available to other people in the Facebook network. For example, the Holocaust Museum has a great Flash exhibition of Angelina Jolie’s trip to the Congo. I have a constant personal quandary about the social network ExhibitFiles.
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