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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

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. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Direct Content. What’s so important or interesting about this?

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…Who Knows *What* About Me?! Four Tools that Show You How You’re Tracked Online

Tech Soup

According to the brains of Wikipedia , digital footprints* are simply put “the trail of data that is left behind by users on digital services.” Lightbeam for Mozilla* Firefox users, is an add-on that maps out what first and third-party sites you visit on the web.

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Wearable Computing: Sussing Out the Frontiers of Nonprofit Technology

Tech Soup

from the MIT Media Lab), GlassUp , and iOptik augmented reality contact lenses. Google Glass is by far the most famous of them and is a set of cyborg looking eyeglasses (now in five colors) that like many wearable devices, works in cooperation with an Android phone or iPhone. It also can map turn-by-turn directions for you.

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100 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Formstack allows nonprofits to easily create online forms to capture contact information of new supporters, volunteers, and donors. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone.

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85 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

CharityRadio is a live weekly radio program that you listen to over your mobile phone. Listeners opt-in to receive a phone call at show time and no dial-in is required. Formstack allows nonprofits to easily create online forms to capture contact information of new supporters, volunteers, and donors. Formstack :: formstack.com.

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70 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

CharityRadio is a live weekly radio program that you listen to over your mobile phone. Listeners opt-in to receive a phone call at show time and no dial-in is required. Formstack allows nonprofits to easily create online forms to capture contact information of new supporters, volunteers, and donors. Formstack :: formstack.com.

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60 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone.

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