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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. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Citizen-Powered Response. Direct Content.

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Give Local America Disaster Offers Lessons for Next Time

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

“ Give Local America Disaster Offers Lessons for Next Time – Guest Post by Peter Panepento. It would be easy for community foundations to back away from giving days in the wake of the Kimbia disaster and similar problems that plagued Minnesota’s popular Give to the Max Day in 2013. Communicate clearly and regularly.

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The Social Media Response to Disaster in Haiti

NTEN

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. 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. 100% of donations went directly to disaster relief. How can we do that?

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How Audience Research Is Keeping Up with a Changing World

Forum One

Risk planning is particularly helpful when working with audiences who have been highly affected by the pandemic, such as public health officials and healthcare professionals. Diverse research samples result in more inclusive outcomes. When it comes to audience research, it’s imperative to examine the diversity of research samples.

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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. Candid’s Foundation Directory is another robust source for finding funding from foundations, public charities, and federal funders—it's a great research resource to get giving insights.

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Giving USA 2021 Key Findings: How to Retain and Upgrade Nonprofit Donors Before Year’s End

Bloomerang

Fearing the sky was falling, they thought people would hunker down and fundraising would be a disaster. In terms of issue area, giving to: Public-society benefit organizations grew 15.7% (14.3% The organization described how they were helping those affected by the disaster, and how their services would be evolving over time.

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Issues with Crowdsourced Data Part 2

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re reacting to the following claim: “Data collected using unbounded crowdsourcing (non-representative sampling) largely in the form of SMS from the disaster affected population in Port-au-Prince can predict, with surprisingly high accuracy and statistical significance, the location and extent of structural damage post-earthquake.”

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