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Cool App Roundup: Disaster and Emergency Edition

Tech Soup

This edition of the App It Up project "Cool App Roundup" highlights different ways apps can be used in disaster, crisis, and emergency situations. Preparing for Disaster. The FEMA app includes preparation guidelines for a variety of disasters, including checklists, safety tips, and local shelter maps.

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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Pivots can make the difference between a successful session and disaster. These could done by one person or could be shared if mapped out in advance. Good instructional design to create an environment for peer dialogue begins with good on boarding and for people to connect with something they already know or believe.

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From Cubicle to Community: How to Empower Workplace Giving

Nonprofits Source

For example, did your community recently experience a natural disaster? Especially if your initiative consists of several programs, you might hold a company-wide meeting to go over the program and implement instructions into future onboarding materials. Word-of-mouth: Encourage executives and employees to spread the word!

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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. These definitions have informed the curriculum, instructional design, peer learning design, and how we will measure and learn along the way.

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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. These definitions have informed the curriculum, instructional design, peer learning design, and how we will measure and learn along the way.

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11NTC Preview: Technology in Times of Disaster: The Important Role of Social media in Disaster Response and Awareness

NTEN

Mapping tools were able to highlight immediate needs and additional context around Port-au-Prince’s intricate web of streets, alleys, and back-ways. Largely self-organized groups were then able to begin providing impromptu and invaluable translation services and location information to responders on the ground.

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Forum One Staff Share OpenGov Ideas

Forum One

The memorandum instructed the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to provide guidance to executive departments and agencies on implementing open government. Finally, the data should be easily mapped to State Department data on entity in control of territory aid is rendered throughout the duration of the project. Disaster Response.

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