Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

Since Hurricane Katrina struck the US in 2005, TechSoup has created and maintained content specific to nonprofits, libraries, and charities on disaster planning and recovery. Most organizations don't think about disaster planning until it's too late.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

We spend hours pulling together content only for the majority of the folks on our lists to ignore it entirely – or delete it with malice aforethought. The open rate for our August newsletter was down 5% because of Hurricane Irene. At least, I'm hoping it wasn't the content. Online newsletters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

Photo by Christine As you know by now, Hurricane Gustav looks even more destructive than Katrina (see this round up from Lisa Stone, BlogHer , of the news reports and links). He is hoping it will work like Katrina Aftermath , with aggregations of content generated by the public, news orgs and govt agencies. The widget's resources.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 29, 2023

Emergency relief Emergency or disaster relief volunteers come into play after a major, devastating event, such as an earthquake or hurricane. Anyone with an internet connection can be a virtual volunteer. Event Many volunteers choose to help out with major events, such as concerts, festivals, conferences, and nonprofit fundraisers.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

Preparation and Resiliency: The talents and expertise are an enormous untapped resource in preparing our communities for natural and man-made disasters of all kinds, whether it’s hurricanes, earthquakes, school shootings, or global pandemics like COVID – 19. Turn your employees into content creators.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

Then I plunged (late) into a session called “Discover a Hacker’s Mindset,” with Pablos Holman, which was chock-full of traditional hacking (lock-picking, credit card slurping) along with hacking the world: one on maintaining the arctic ice pack and the other on preventing hurricanes.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2015

On this 10th anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, we polled a variety of smart NPtech cognoscenti on the single most important thing charities need to do to prepare for a disaster. "We use Box as a document repository, and we use the API that Box provides to connect to a content management system from Django.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

There are two types of media we will look at here: direct and indirect content. Direct Content. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Indirect Content.

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NTEN

AUGUST 17, 2010

It was highliy orchestrated, from the content to the signage to Phil Collins' travel. All the event organizers ask is that you find a venues the can accomodate the following: "People, hurricanes, New Orleans themed music (i.e. If only for the sheer scale, it was epic, in the truest sense of the word.*

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2013

What I’d expect from an online blog from such an established institution is a weighty selection of content from equally businesslike sources. He says that his inspiration for doing this work came to him in wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 when AFP needed to find additional ways to stay in touch with members.

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See3

AUGUST 31, 2007

For everything that this administration will be remembered for, and we don’t have to go down the list, the response to Hurricane Katrina will surely be near the top of the list. Can you imagine that debris hasn’t even been cleared, two years after the hurricane? Well… about that. It is hard to imagine.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Our thoughts are with those impacted by the devastation of Hurricane Sandy. The following is an excerpt on recovering hardware and IT equipment after a disaster from TechSoup's Disaster Planning and Recovery Guide , currently being updated with additional content and formats.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. Most of the content was (and is) user generated. In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." " The year was 2005. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor.

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2012

iOS/Android: The First Aid app from the American Red Cross is a great example of why the content of an app should inform it’s functionality and design. This is a natural fit for the organization and they have plans for future apps focused on earthquake, hurricane, tornado, and flood preparedness. First Aid by American Red Cross.

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2012

First Aid by American Red Cross iOS/Android: The First Aid app from the American Red Cross is a great example of why the content of an app should inform it’s functionality and design. This is a natural fit for the organization and they have plans for future apps focused on earthquake, hurricane, tornado, and flood preparedness.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The model for disseminating web content is evolving. People curious to learn more about these trends packed a room at the National Press Club in Washington on September 16 to discuss the challenges and successes of content syndication. The winner is the one who creates the best new model for displaying government content.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

We're all familiar with it, a message saying "Help the recovery from Hurricane Sandy. However, simply taking your desktop content and putting it into a smartphone format isn’t enough to really engage your constituents and community. Text MUTUALAID to 69866 to donate $10."

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2008

But it has also been driven by major events like 9/11 , the Asian Tsunami , and Hurricane Katrina. Are you changing with it? More importantly, are you seeking out people with a healthy appetite for change? The rate of change in the nonprofit world has been steadily increasing over the past decade. And the 2008 U.S.

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

But Wally Wood inspired this post, and got me thinking about how we approach the task of content creation. And we are bracing for yet another intense, potentially deadly hurricane season. That’s the reality on the ground, as communities on the Gulf Coast try to recover from another hurricane. Still reading? TIME IS ALMOST UP!

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Connection Cafe

MAY 4, 2012

We engaged in primary research with nonprofits and their donors and became maniacal about data in order to publish educational content. I travelled the country speaking at every nonprofit conference that would have me. Over the years we faced many highs and lows.

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2005

They succeeded because they understood and enabled the power of user-generated content and the power of peer networking.' 'Web-based A prime example is the Katrina PeopleFinder Project [link] an ad-hoc online collaboration of organizations and individuals to help locate loved ones in the hurricane-affected areas.'"

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

Maybe your organization helped over one hundred hurricane survivors find temporary housing. You can also use this information to tweak layout, content, and donation processes. Your letter must address what your donor wants to know and what warms her heart. Tell the story of one person or one family. That’s great!

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

We had all these amazing volunteers and food trucks and chefs who had managed their own businesses but lost so much after the hurricane and decided that they wanted to offer their time and resources to WCK. We had over 20,000 volunteers in Puerto Rico alone, most of whom were Puerto Ricans who had been impacted by the hurricane themselves.

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VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Hurricane Katrina was such an event for VisionLink, as was the more recent tornado through Joplin Missouri, which caused a 400% increase in system demand. Second, can the firm demonstrate that they can meet unexpected levels of peak demand?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

But that would be a lot of content! September is Preparedness Month: We know that September is usually a bad month for hurricanes and other natural disasters. And because you probably can't eat that much - unless, of course, you're Joey Chestnut - you put many small samples on your plate instead.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

We have a lot of content, and we know that you’ll have questions. And as I said, there’ll be formal breaks in the content where we review some of those questions. So, what do you do in case things go wrong, whether it’s with a technology system, or there’s a hurricane that wipes out your office or whatever? Remote work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

But it isn’t just about the presenting content, it is about applying the ideas in a series of small experiments or action learning experiments and sharing insights with peers. Use promoted posts to accelerate the engagement of good quality content that you know from previous measurement insights performs well. Do a content audit.

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Launch Day | Idealware : We had hoped that our latest report, Consumers Guide to Low Cost Content Management Systems, would be the biggest news of the week, but Hurricane Sandy trumped us. Published in partnership with Beaconfire Consulting, it offers detailed reviews and comparisons of 11 Content Management Systems for nonprofits.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Redesigning Charity for the Digital Age Skip to content Home More about Steve Bridger UK Charities Twitter 100 This was written by. When afterwilma debuted, I like many others felt an affinity to the people afflicted by the hurricane. We did start a group hurricane blog after Wilma, thankfully we have not put it to good use.

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