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The NPTech Response to Japan

NTEN

Flickr photo: Logan was his name-o It's been just a few hours since one of the largest recorded earthquakes and subsequent tsunami hit off the coast of Japan. Our hearts go out to the people of Japan. Satellite phones and GPS were the major tools that helped relief workers work faster and stay connected.

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Microsoft's Windows Azure and Disaster Response

Tech Soup

The portal would allow emergency response teams, municipal actors, and other community agencies to use mapping, social media, translation, and other tools for online communications. Second Harvest in Japan.

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Twitter Stats You Need To Know and Tips to Get More Clicks

Care2

I have seen it be a powerful organizing tool as part of a multichannel campaign. 33,000 : tweets per second in Japan during New Years. 80 percent : users on mobile in the UK and Japan. I have personally had some of the most thought-provoking conversations on Twitter about social justice issues and politics.

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Wordpress Extras: My Favorites

Amy Sample Ward

A recent comment from Ichi (working on social media for good in Japan w/ SocialCompany.org ) asked after the tools I was using on this blog to bring in comments via Twitter. I like this tool because it brings in conversation from Twitter to the comment stream for the relating posts.

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Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy

Amy Sample Ward

Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan. Philanthropy has been able to move into the real time web, too. Another great example is Epic Change. We can’t only invest in a product.

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Ushahidi Wins MacArthur Award: Changing the World One Map at a Time

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They couldn’t solve the humanitarian crisis, but they could build a tool that could shine a light on human rights violations, bringing much-needed attention and support to developing emergencies. The tool was Ushahidi. Usahidi means “bearing witness” in Swahili.

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More on Using Crowdsourced Data to Find Big Picture Patterns (Take 3)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The helicopter survey is a more expensive, but more effective tool for getting the big picture. As a thought experiment, imagine this approach being used in the Japan tsunami. I hope that this underscores the seriousness of this issue and makes it more tangible. Delay costs lives.

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