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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 30, 2011
I grew up in a small town by the New Jersey shore in a house a block from the Atlantic Ocean that my elderly parents still live in today. With Hurricane threatening a direct hit and potential devastating damage, emergency officials called for a mandatory evacuation — something that hasn’t happened in many years.
Bloomerang
MARCH 29, 2023
How to incentivize volunteerism At its core, volunteerism is the engagement and mobilization of groups of people to support others or fight for a worthwhile cause. The Great Depression saw a mass mobilization of volunteers to assist the unemployed and impoverished. Let’s take a closer look at this phenomenon!
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Tech Soup
MAY 14, 2013
Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. Online social networking was just being born. 'Net2 in Action' highlights more than 30 real-life examples of nonprofits using this new breed of Web-based technologies to tackle issues such as reaching and mobilizing constituencies.
Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 19, 2011
It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 1, 2015
Mobile health apps have grown in popularity. She was one of the first patients to use video blogging through her nationally recognized YouTube channel to share her story and educate people about life with IBD. It got started in upstate NY by Pat Quinn and through social networks, it spread to Pete Frates.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 12, 2009
Courtesy of Alexandra Rampy, publisher of SocialButterfly Mobile. Rather than go on, instead, I want to give some examples and highlight the cool factor of how mobile can add some out-of-the-box type thinking to an overall health and/or social marketing-related initiative. Cool Factor : Mobile as a research tool.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
ServiceNation , a national campaign to increase service opportunities and elevate the importance of service in America, has received a $500,000 grant from Facebook as part of its expanded partnership. September is Preparedness Month: We know that September is usually a bad month for hurricanes and other natural disasters.
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