VisionLink

AUGUST 25, 2011

Preparing for Hurricane Irene? The application is free; it maps information about open shelters, and provides information about location, capacity and more very useful to those near the disaster area. Be sure to keep up to date with Disaster Shelter information from the American Red Cross.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

(Android, iOS, Windows Phone) connects you with friends and family during a large-scale disaster such as an earthquake or a hurricane. The Esri ArcGIS app (Windows 8) is useful for organizations that wish to build their own relief-related maps. The app lets you preview different data skews and features from Esri's mapping software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

Teresa Crawford (a Dirk Award Winner in 2002) is working with Humaninet to develop the vertical track on Disaster Management/Humanitarian Assistance at the Nonprofit Software Development Summit. Here's a description that Teresa sent me: It has been over two years since the Indian Ocean tsunami, and 16 months since Hurricane Katrina.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. The bombings created confusion and as people were able to put details together for themselves, they did so in a way that others could learn and follow the developments. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. Marnie, Daniel, and Billy had been following developments at O’Reilly Web 2.0 An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.). Google Maps. " The year was 2005. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. Podcasting.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

" Macon Phillips, special assistant to the President and director of new media for the White House, was a volunteer during Hurricane Katrina. In the five years since Hurricane Katrina, social media has exploded, and its potential for use in crises was clear after the Haiti earthquake.

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2012

This is a natural fit for the organization and they have plans for future apps focused on earthquake, hurricane, tornado, and flood preparedness. If you find yourself in an unsafe situation you can quickly alert a pre-set list of “guardians” to your location via an automatic text message with a Google Maps link.

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2012

This is a natural fit for the organization and they have plans for future apps focused on earthquake, hurricane, tornado, and flood preparedness. If you find yourself in an unsafe situation you can quickly alert a pre-set list of “gaurdians” to your location via an automatic text message with a Google Maps link.

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

It opened up the question of what roles chefs can play in international development. Can you talk a little bit about your response from the development and communications side? 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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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

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. Visiting Cancun this very week, I am struck by the damage that is still visible. The Hub on Saturday, June 19, 2010 at 2:06 pm [.]

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