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Online Community Organizing: Start small, think big!

Amy Sample Ward

The other interviews include Sylwia Presley from Gobal Voices , and Claire Sale from NetSquared. Or a team of volunteers that manage communications (from phone trees to canvassing). We should approach offline action as one of many channels available to us to reach our mission. I definitely recommend them both!

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The Commons Introduces Grassroots Mobile Survey

Saleforce Nonprofit

By using a mobile phone, they can collect data on the go and easily sync it to their Salesforce platform if they are in an area where the internet is unavailable. It became clear as we talked through the process that they needed a lightweight, efficient means to collect data that didn’t rely on internet connectivity.

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The Single Most Important Thing to Prepare for Disasters

Tech Soup

With a documented procedure and technology that works from anywhere with an Internet connection. Voice over IP phones are probably the most important (and least utilized) technology for that purpose. "The challenge for us is we're not in the cloud in a lot of places we work; there's no Internet.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks.

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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

NTEN

This resulted in us creating a “sneaker-net” approach to providing basic asynchronous ICT services to rural villages: a complete offline Wikipedia that fit on a CD-ROM, and severely restricted bandwidth throttling to allow community radios to access the Internet (via prepaid RBGAN) for $2-3 a day. . Voice remains the killer app.

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Women Who Tech Telesummit: Tools Galore Panel

Amy Sample Ward

They were able to use the platform for organizing offline events, finding and collaborating with volunteer organizers, and more. Helpful resources on Twitter: Pew Internet report. There are many people on Facebook; but far more people have the internet and are not on Facebook than those who are. Read the full case study here.

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. It is a must download!

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