American College of Preventive Medicine’s Annual Conference
Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 19, 2011
Description : Social media tools allow for people to connect: broadcasting messages to real time communication, online networking to offline collaboration.
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Great reads from around the web on April 8th
Amy Sample Ward
APRIL 8, 2011
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
FEBRUARY 19, 2011
If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.
Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 22, 2009
Collective action can take the form of signing online petitions, fundraising, tele-calling, or organizing an offline protest or event. It is also important to bridge online conversations into mainstream media buzz and online engagement into offline action. The Third C: Community.
50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JANUARY 30, 2012
A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. A good quote is certain to garner your nonprofit Retweets and thumbs up on Facebook any day of the week. CheckFacebook :: checkfacebook.com. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 20, 2007
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.
Which Social Networking Analysis Term Best Describes Virgin America?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 29, 2009
The Core are people who do most of the work (think wikipedia editors.) Christine Egger from Social Actions left a thoughtful comment on my Facebook profile about process: . I've been intrigued by social data exploration and wonder what offline processes might be adapted to doing this with a software tool?
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