Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 21, 2010
Photo from International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region showing the complete devastation of its PROFAMIL Haiti clinic. PROFAMIL Haiti has provided sexual and reproductive health services in Haiti since 1984. How can people contribute? .
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 17, 2011
Guest Beneblog by Patrick Ball, Jeff Klingner, and Kristian Lum After the earthquake in Haiti, Ushahidi organized a centralized text messaging system to allow people to inform others about people trapped under damaged buildings and other humanitarian crises. The text message stream doesn't help the decision process.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 28, 2011
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.”
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 31, 2014
One infamous example is Foldit , a protein-folding puzzle game that crowdsources potential real-world protein structures and solutions. Games can also empower players to help solve seemingly impossible scientific problems. Around Gender.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 1, 2013
It takes you through the technologies and tools for each channel for different goals and offers up lots of case studies from organizations such as National Wildlife Federation, Red Cross, AARP, Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, American Museum of Natural History, SEIU and others. Click to see larger version. Sometimes easier said than done!).
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.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 16, 2011
One topic they discussed the challenge of networked governance and leadership and mentioned that they’d be holding this convening to talk about to “smush&# the two networks together and have the networks design the best governance structure. Photo by Glenn Hirsch. Photo by Glenn Hirsch.
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