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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Working together, citizens could piece together news stories as well as facts from witnesses as they emerged to create the most complete picture of events. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!

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49 Online Fundraising Ideas to Help You Raise More

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In the aftermath of a disaster, whether it be a devastating hurricane that has left your community flooded or a wildfire that has forced your community to leave their homes behind, you’ll need to mobilize quickly to provide support. Final thoughts.

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My Organization is in “the cloud”! – What does that mean?

3rd Sector Labs

Worse still, if you weren’t in “the cloud”, then your organization was exposed to all sorts of risks, problems and unnecessary costs? Not long ago, chatting with a prospective customer about their donor data storage practices, I suggested we step back and look at the organization’s bigger technology picture.

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Tech Policies for Virtual Teams: A Leader’s Responsibility

Non Profit Quarterly

The problem they had was they didn’t really have policies to really govern and guide their staff towards effectively transitioning. Not really specifically to computers, but mobile devices. Things to think through in terms of usage of these computers, these mobile devices, etc.—are are their household members using it?

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Interview with Jodie Van Horn of Freedom from Oil and Plug-in Bay Area

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JVH: The primary argument coming out of the automakers at this time is I believe a bit of a cover-up for a larger problem, which is simply the inertia on the part of companies to change their model of business; to change their way of doing things. BB: What's preventing this from happening? What is the argument against plug-in hybrids?