Connection Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2010

In the past 8 days, the surge of generosity for Haiti relief has been amazing. Find a charity with a proven track record of success in providing disaster relief and one that has worked in Haiti. Do Not Give To The Haitian Government – Haiti is known to be a corrupt country. Author: Jordan Viator.

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NCE Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2010

While popular in Europe for some time, texting donations has finally broken through as a promising fundraising tool here. Could this be a fundraising tool that you can promote for your own agency? Social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter have proven to be a way for people to communicate during a crisis.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

." » Your Mobile Giving by State – Wendy Harman at the American Red Cross has posted a map and data about the funds donated via texting "Haiti" to 90999 to support the victims in the Haiti earthquake crisis.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

On January 12, 2010, I didn't personally experience the major earthquake that hit Haiti, but I was forever changed by it. social tools + people = lives saved. . social tools + people = lives saved. . We have a robust social media presence on all the sites you'd expect: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and our blog.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

In 2009, for example, two trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing emergency numbers directly. 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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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2010

Over the last week, technology has played an unprecedented role in bringing aid to and saving lives in Haiti. Over $22 million has been raised by the American Red Cross via text message (about a fifth of total Haiti-related giving to the organization so far). And then there's the role that Facebook and Twitter are playing.

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2010

Over the last week, technology has played an unprecedented role in bringing aid to and saving lives in Haiti. Over $22 million has been raised by the American Red Cross via text message (about a fifth of total Haiti-related giving to the organization so far). And then there's the role that Facebook and Twitter are playing.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 16, 2008

I have a birthday coming up and over the weekend I received an email from Causes, the social change application in Facebook. Thanks to Facebook, in two weeks all of your friends will see that it’s your birthday. When friends donate to the Birthday Cause , they are able to write a message that appears on my Facebook Wall.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Not to be confused with Text-to-Give campaigns (Text HAITI to 90999 to donate $10 to the Red Cross), text alert campaigns are when individuals opt-in to be alerted of breaking news or calls to action via text message. A year ago launching a text alert campaign was expensive, but not anymore thanks to tools like TextMarks and Ez Texting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

She shared some insights about the Red Cross’s social media work leading up to Haiti. She made great points about what they had in place the day before the earthquake in Haiti struck: Robust listening program where staff skims and responds. Over 1,000 mentions a day. They had social content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals. Click to see larger version.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

Read about how Pocket First Aid & CPR helped save a life in the Haiti Earthquake of 2010. Facebook) lets you collaborate with your staff to come up with a disaster plan. iOS) is a beautifully-designed app with all the tools you'll need before, during, and after an emergency. Other Useful Apps. StopDisaster.

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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. After all, funding for the arts (theater, dance, music, museums etc.)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2022

First, organic reach is at an all-time low and the value and effectiveness of social media advertising is questionable : Facebook: 2.9 Are you raising funds using Facebook & Instagram Fundraising Tools ? If the tools are performing for your nonprofit, then keep at it in 2023. 6) Embrace Instagram Fundraising Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2010

Given the visible success of the Haiti text to give campaigns, SMS is bound to become one of the tools in the an organization's fundraising bag if it isn't already. Post it to your Facebook Fanpage and any other social networks your organization is active on. Reinforce this in a follow up thank you email as well.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 3, 2010

With virtual meeting tools and video conferencing, we’re even doing less of that.) 77 percent of respondents were aware of the Haiti text-to-donate efforts. 28 percent of respondents with a mobile Facebook application texted a gift. Here are some of the key findings.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Social media is a great tool for increasing supporter engagement; a majority of nonprofits have realized this. Our survey showed that 91% of our respondents use Facebook, 63% use Twitter, 45% use YouTube and 35% use LinkedIn, amongst other media. And 92% of surveyed nonprofits plan on using at least one of these tools in 2011.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

What should we expect from an online fundraising tool? How did the Red Cross system work for Haiti? Identify an appropriate spectrum of tools (Facebook, Twitter, etc) to use in this endeavor. Provide guidance on how to integrate these tools so updates/monitoring of input can be done as efficiently/promptly as possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. Crowdrise was a good tool, but certainly not perfect: it didn’t allow for $1 donations, as I had wished. That’s why the Red Cross was so successful with their text message donation campaign during the Haiti crisis. But consider the following: Networking.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. CrisisCamps took off after the earthquake in Haiti. By using cloud-based tools, these disbursed teams were working remotely and together on one shared system. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. CrisisCamps took off after the earthquake in Haiti. By using cloud-based tools, these disbursed teams were working remotely and together on one shared system. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

This portal was also launched at the onset of the Haiti earthquake and utilized by relief organizations. Social networks like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube keep many of us connected to a continuous stream of information. Social networks like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube keep many of us connected to a continuous stream of information.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

This portal was also launched at the onset of the Haiti earthquake and utilized by relief organizations. Social networks like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube keep many of us connected to a continuous stream of information. Social networks like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube keep many of us connected to a continuous stream of information.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

You can follow Traveling Postcards at travelingpostcards.org , on Facebook , and on Twitter ( @TravelingPost ). Please tell your friends, and "like" us on Facebook. How does Traveling Postcards work? Lastly we always love to receive an individual card in the mail. The more people who know about Traveling Postcards the better!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2013

five tools that make fundraising easy, effective, economic, and even. Working primarily as a Facebook app, Causes automatically publishes any user’s interaction on their friends’ newsfeed, spreading awareness with each "like," "share," donation, or petition signature, or if they’ve joined the cause.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 26, 2010

BB: I think I heard about the bake sale on Twitter, so that gives me the impression that you used a lot of social web tools to get the word out. AR: Right from the start with Fat Bottom Bakery, and then later on the East Bay Vegan Bake Sale, we decided that the Internet was going to be a great tool and asset for us.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

I’ll review some new green IT developments like how nonprofit solar electricity is thriving in Haiti. Green IT: Glad Tidings from Haiti. We’re used to hearing nothing but bad news from Haiti since it was hit by a succession of catastrophic events since 2010. Sanebox starts at $2 per month per user.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

Project Hope Art engages its supporters to raise funds to help children affected by the earthquake that devastated Haiti. It employs volunteer artists who use the arts as a tool for healing. Developing content that your audience will want is easier if you look at your blog as a curation tool, according to Coley.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

An iPhone app called Memento compiles the data from your various disparate personal information repositories such as Twitter, Facebook and Flickr, and brings them back into a diary format, of all things. We live in the age of Facebook. But Facebook is horrible when it comes to telling stories. You can even add diary entries.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 22, 2010

Recently, Shabbir Imber Safdar , author of the TruthyPR blog and Shayna Englin of Englin Consulting LLC published an eBook entitled "Is Your Nonprofit Facebook Page Worth It? Studying real-world examples of Facebook pages and campaigns, Shabbir and Shayna found many interesting nuggets of guidance to share with the nonprofit community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. Ushahidi has had impressive growth over the past 18 months and most visible was its work with Haiti.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Social Media Nedra Weinreich's tip jar , tipped me off to newly published study from Nora Barnes and Eric Mattson from U Mass Dartmouth about nonprofit adoption of social media tools. " Britt Bravo is surprised that video is the most adopted tool and wonders whether it would be the same for smaller organizations.

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