Disaster Information Offline Twitter 
Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 19, 2011
My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Citizen-Powered Response.
NTEN
FEBRUARY 17, 2010
When disaster strikes, we want information as soon as possible and we want to help just as quickly. But the way we think about and turn to social media in a time of disaster is changing. The disaster in Haiti is a perfect example of these changes: the impact of the Real-Time Web and the power of our phones.
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Amy Sample Ward
APRIL 8, 2011
To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Rapid advances in digital media and technology are changing how we connect to information and each other. New networks are emerging everywhere.
Amy Sample Ward
APRIL 27, 2009
Learning: evaluating what is being said and what information is needed. Adapting: using the listening and learning to inform how you change. pull in hashtags from Twitter into the RSS reader (pull in the RSS of a search.twitter.com result). Examples: Yammer for internal sharing, it’s a Twitter for groups.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 19, 2008
welcomed everyone "The people on the end of your web site will be informed than the CEO. He mentioned that "digital natives" get their information from their peers. He mentioned that I would be talking about Twitter and quipped."If "If you see me twittering, take me to the back and shoot me."
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 17, 2009
you'll hear case studies of social media disasters and how they could have been prevented, as well as how brands have dealt with potential PR nightmares. This will be a conversation that explores the changing media landscape and how the web can rise to the challenge of supporting our communities and their information needs.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 29, 2010
He tries to make the point: “Social change has been happening before the creation of Twitter four years ago&# but disappoints. Nancy Scola at TechPresident, in a post called, Malcolm Gladwell Goes Searching Twitter for 60’s Activism. We’re only four years into the Twitter era, after all.
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