Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

We've compiled a list of organizations to which you can donate to support these efforts as well as some disaster recovery resources. Oxfam International's disaster relief teams are assessing the extent of the damage in the Philippines and deploying water and sanitation materials. Donate to Organizations Providing Relief.

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NTEN

AUGUST 30, 2011

We know our friends over at the Red Cross have been expertly using social media for disaster response for years now, but this weekend, with Hurricane Irene set to touch down all along the east coast, we saw many other organizations and government entities reaching out via social media, as well.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

In partnering with the White House, National Lab Day, and videogame makers Sony and EA, the Digital media and Learning Competitions has prizes up to $200,000 and is open to all kinds of innovative projects (including games) that make use of digital media for education and social change.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

" National Theatre’s Twitter Screw-up – What We Can Learn From Other People’s Mistakes | The Nest – "Over the last month, The Nest has been conducting social media training in nine regional theatre venues across five states. " URL Shorteners: Blind(ly) Heading Towards Disaster? However, just today a.ly

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Source: National Arts Index It's at times like these -- in the midst of an extended recession and the wake of the tragedy in Haiti -- that the role of funding arts in society may be called into question. had already been in a long-term decline, as documented recently by the National Arts Index from Americans for the Arts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

We have to respect Mother Nature – and whether we live by the Ocean where Hurricanes can hit or along a fault line where earthquakes can shake down our homes. Do we take natural disaster seriously ? Are we prepared? We were experimenting and learning about what an online community organized around service might look like.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Those of us in developed nations are fortunate in some ways that great amounts of data are available -- data about our people, places, and activities. But for many people in the world, especially in developing nations, the data simply isn't available. Tags: Data Newsletter NPTech NTEN Program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. A Brief History of Hash Tags Chris Messina ( @chrismessina) is credited with starting hashtags and has written about how to make them most useful. That's, of course, if the tag used is unique enough. It still continues to be used on Twitter as well as other places.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Those of us in developed nations are fortunate in some ways that great amounts of data are available -- data about our people, places, and activities. But for many people in the world, especially in developing nations, the data simply isn't available. Tags: Data Newsletter NPTech NTEN Program.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

CrisisCamps are independent, disbursed, volunteer efforts to develop lightweight technology solutions to help with disaster relief. As the CrisisCamps example shows, disbursed teams of volunteers can be engaged, coordinated and productive over time zones, national borders, and several weeks of work.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

CrisisCamps are independent, disbursed, volunteer efforts to develop lightweight technology solutions to help with disaster relief. As the CrisisCamps example shows, disbursed teams of volunteers can be engaged, coordinated and productive over time zones, national borders, and several weeks of work.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 21, 2014

From local athletes and community members in Boston it quickly became a national movement. However, the backlash to it is gaining momentum and it's being tagged as slactivism. " This seems interesting considering that "downer news," more specifically disaster imagery, has always driven up donations.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

Disaster Relief in Eastern Europe. Our TechSoup Global partners there are also working hard on disaster relief in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia through the Community Boost r program and also a project called Mapa Poplava. Find out more on this project here. The social media hashtag for this effort is #poplave.

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 28, 2010

New technology tools help Haiti earthquake relief - NashuaTelegraph.com: "Volunteers have built and refined software for tracking missing people, mapping the disaster area and enabling urgent cell-phone text messaging. Organizations including the International Red Cross, the United Nations, the World Bank and the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

I have not come across too many organizations using Slideshare for fundraising , although I’ve seen a few breath taking decks created by “free agent&# fundraisers for disaster relief efforts over the years. National Wildlife Federation uses Slideshare for its presentations, but also to promote the winners of their photo contests.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Disaster response work that used to take days now takes minutes, using a combination of Sharepoint, mobile devices and airplane surveillance. Tags: interview reports case studies readwriteweb realtime report research web. As they say, “at the Red Cross, the real-time web saves lives.&# It’s amazing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 14, 2009

When disaster strikes and people need water and shelter, they are not usually in a position to pay for that service. We have political leaders with an active interest in changing the status quo— for finding innovative and scalable solutions to the challenges facing our cities, states, nation and the world. First, charity.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

NWF - tag mentions in delicious with which programs or projects are mentioned, can share link to that tag on delicious with staff to see their section. Any resources to move from national to local? Tags: events liveblogging 09ntc beth kanter conference metrics strategy. How do you change around from failure? take chances.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. the integrated philanthropy model in honor of National Corporate Philanthropy Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2005

Since I had never come across this nonprofit blog, I wanted to learn more about the topics covered: QPP is part of a national and international network of people with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), helping each other to take charge of their lives, care and destinies. Technorati Tags: npblogexchange Try to relate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I had to look up the Clark Griswald reference ( National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation ), but you might be scratching your head wondering what the heck is a back channel? once and it was disaster, best to use to supplement discussion in between phone calls). Tags: online communities technology training training materials.

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sgEngage

APRIL 22, 2021

The National Centers for Environmental Information has been tracking ‘billion-dollar disasters’ since 1980. Since they started collecting this data, there have been 291 Billion Dollar disasters in the United States alone, totaling over $1.9 Trillion in damages. Another idea is to issue a consumer-facing social media campaign!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Multi-tenant Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provides nonprofit organizations of all sizes access to the same tools and scale as the nation's largest and best known nonprofit brands. Tags: Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Web Sites Fundraising.

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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 vibrant, moderated discussion will include representatives from Kiva, OptINnow, and 2 national advocacy organizations. Tags: sxsw. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

For example, they partnered with groups like Focus the Nation and 1Sky so that they could share a backend database ensuring that they were then able to share calls to action and garner far more numbers together than as competitors. Have you heard the number 350 parts per million?

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 5, 2022

billion ( National Retail Foundation 2017 Survey ) Father’s Day: $15.5 Let’s take a second to play a quick association game: Think about a natural disaster, such as a hurricane or an earthquake. Here are some ideas on designing this from Pinterest boards on Valentine’s day tags. billion ( NRF 2017 Survey ) Halloween: $9.1

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 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 vibrant, moderated discussion will include representatives from Kiva, OptINnow, and 2 national advocacy organizations. Tags: sxsw. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 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 vibrant, moderated discussion will include representatives from Kiva, OptINnow, and 2 national advocacy organizations. Tags: beth kanter NPTech sxsw. Carie Lewis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

The Return by Danielle Brigida, NWF NWF Description of Case Study While strategy plays an important role within the National Wildlife Federation, initially it was very hard to determine one for our social media presences. With NWF as the hash tag; Wildlife sightings perhaps would not lag; (for all to brag?). media: local and national.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So they got the whole nation covered, which is also cool. Kari: But the good news is, if you are using Bloomerang, you will have a lot of these, or if you’re not, you can start tagging things so that you can. So if you’re a disaster response organization, this is a toughie. Combined decades of experience.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The competition would progress through in-person competitions to a national competition. Disaster Response. International Disaster Community of Practice. Citizen reports should be relayed to both national CERTs and the companies or communities respond for patching the vulnerability. Vote for this Idea].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

ServiceNation , a national campaign to increase service opportunities and elevate the importance of service in America, has received a $500,000 grant from Facebook as part of its expanded partnership. September is Preparedness Month: We know that September is usually a bad month for hurricanes and other natural disasters.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Combining maps with data can take you even further: Humaninet uses GIS to help disaster response teams; Movesmart.org helps people find apartments in Chicago; Map Kibera is adding a level of detail to one of Africa's largest slums even Google Maps can't offer. Tags: NPTech NTEN.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2011

In December 2010, Target Analytics brought together six national nonprofit organizations to discuss event fundraising and compare fundraising performance of team captains, team members, individuals (non-team participants), and donors. The donorCentrics Events Benchmarking Group was the first time research of this kind has ever been conducted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Objective : Get the word out about National HIV Testing Day. Objective : Provide lifesaving assistance during the natural disasters that occurred in China and Myanmar. Tags: guest blogging mobile social media. But, for creative juices, let’s show off some coolness.). *. Organization(s) : The U.S. Cool Factor : Mobile Giving.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The coalition includes the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University , GuideStar USA , the Foundation Center , the Urban Institute’s National Center for Charitable Statistics , the Association of Fundraising Professionals and Blackbaud. and the Urban Institute’s National Center for Charitable Statistics. sectional studies.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2011

Blackbaud’s Internet marketing manager, Chad Norman, will lead the session, with support from leading experts including Danielle Brigida, digital marketing manager at National Wildlife Federation. Tags: Big Ideas , Nonprofit Trends , nptech , NTEN , Online Giving , Social Media , Web 2.0

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