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American College of Preventive Medicine’s Annual Conference

Amy Sample Ward

Description : Social media tools allow for people to connect: broadcasting messages to real time communication, online networking to offline collaboration. Location : San Antonio, TX. Topic : Social Media in Disaster Response. Related Links : Conference website.

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Great reads from around the web on April 8th

Amy Sample Ward

Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. " The US will use Twitter and Facebook to issue terror alerts – "The U.S. These fall into two types: crises that originate in social media, and crises that originate offline. What does it mean for community change?"

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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. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Citizen-Powered Response.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first reason is the excessive focus on specific social media tools. Many first-timers are introduced to social media via specific tools. Many ’social media experts’ who are practitioners rather than thinkers also focus on specific tools. My own approach to social media is both tool-agnostic and terminology-agnostic.

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Which Social Networking Analysis Term Best Describes Virgin America?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. The Core are people who do most of the work (think wikipedia editors.) This is an area of tools and techniques that I have wanted to explore in further depth, but haven't. .

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. A section of the e-newsletter entitled “Resource Spotlight” features a new tool in each edition. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. e-Newsletter.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. She notes, "It doesn't specifically talk about open content, but discusses online and offline content income models in depth, with numbers." The site was developed by Democracy in Action.