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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

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. Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites.

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The Single Most Important Thing to Prepare for Disasters

Tech Soup

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. Amy Sample Ward — CEO, NTEN. With a documented procedure and technology that works from anywhere with an Internet connection.

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How Audience Research Is Keeping Up with a Changing World

Forum One

Contingency planning for natural disasters, pandemics, or other large-scale events is not entirely possible, but having a plan B or C helps to navigate uncertainty more quickly and confidently. Diverse research samples result in more inclusive outcomes. Who has previously been included in research samples in the past?

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How to find free things: nonprofit students edition 

Candid

And for more practical application, Candid provides sample templates for documents you will eventually write as an industry professional. PND compiles the best information from across the Internet to provide quick updates on the sector so you don’t have to extensively research multiple sources. . Philanthropy News Digest .

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Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy

Amy Sample Ward

The internet is not new. The real-time web has also revolutionized the way we support local communities in disaster. Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan.

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The Commons Introduces Grassroots Mobile Survey

Saleforce Nonprofit

By using a mobile phone, they can collect data on the go and easily sync it to their Salesforce platform if they are in an area where the internet is unavailable. It became clear as we talked through the process that they needed a lightweight, efficient means to collect data that didn’t rely on internet connectivity. DV: I agree.

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Why Celebrity iCloud Hacking Should Matter to Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

If you pay attention to the news, you may have recently heard about a major Internet hacking of celebrity phones and devices , in which hundreds of photos were leaked to the wider Internet. apps Backing Up Data Cloud security Using the Web and Internet nonprofits mobile phones cloud computing privacy data'