Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2018

From Twitter to Pinterest to Instagram to LinkedIn, social networks are becoming environments where video content not only thrives, but is expected. Square videos provide 78% more space in social feeds than landscape and they don’t require that the user tilt their phone to view it in full-screen.

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Social Media Video Marketing Practice 261

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Imagine a hurricane bearing down on an isolated village. The report also highlights the deep impact of technology in a wide range of other issue areas, from agriculture to education to the environment. Before the hurricane hit, residents could receive location-targeted SMS messages directing them to evacuate. Image: Sonny M.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

16:9 ratios require that the viewer tilts their phone and watches it in a non-vertical orientation. For example, when Hurricane Harvey hit, ShelterBox USA was swift to put out a video letting their audience know that they had people on the ground assessing how they would be able to help. However, storytelling isn’t enough.

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Profit Video Facebook Marketing 86

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Note from Beth: I’ve wrote about the importance of building resilience in networks given the complex and connected environment we live in today. They had no internet access and – most distressingly for me – no phone service at all. But given the size of the storm, even their safe haven was not without damage. But: no chance.

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Network Build Sierra Leone Hurricane 111

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone. Several websites were set up to help family members find out information about each other in the chaos. Thousands of reports were placed via SMS.

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Disaster Social Media Haiti Media 206

Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

Providing accommodations for somebody with a disability to be able to work from home looks a little different from providing those accommodations in the office environment. So, what do you do in case things go wrong, whether it’s with a technology system, or there’s a hurricane that wipes out your office or whatever? Remote work.

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Policy Team Virtual Tech 102

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

The slogan is "Green Collar Jobs, not Jails" and what we're trying to promote a big vision which includes being able to employ formerly incarcerated people from the Oakland area, "at risk" -- quote unquote -- people from this area into jobs which don't hurt the environment, that actually help sustain us as a community.

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