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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. The platform would then take their data, map it from their sending location, and create the other visual support data you see on the map. Indirect Content. Examples from Haiti.

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New on SSIR: #4Change Examines Social Media for the Climate Change Movement

Amy Sample Ward

For those that follow the #4Change twitter-based chats, this is a post recapping and highlighting our latest conversation on social media application in the Climate Change movement. Collaborative mapping of climate change policy [link]. My latest post is up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog.

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Wiring the Green Movement for Earth Day

Amy Sample Ward

The way I see it, there are many directions that technology is aiding social change work: enabling data sharing, exchange and mapping. Facebook has lots of applications, it’s true: whether they are specifically targeted at “green&# efforts (like the lil green patch app) or not (like Causes ). What do you think?

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The Social Media Response to Disaster in Haiti

NTEN

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008.

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ROI (Results on Insights): Nonprofit Examples of How Listening Returns Value

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is an excellent example of working through how an organization might respond to comments on a blog, but even better it is map for insight harvesting. As David Meerman Scott notes in his analysis of their social media strategy, the goal is "to use current and developing Web 2.0 This drove traffic. You should reach out to both audiences.

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Mobile Innovations for Social Good

NTEN

The team is also building modules on top of this core platform that will compress data into text messages to send electronic medical records, create real-time maps to visualize health programs, and connect clinics to a revolutionary mobile phone-based diagnostic tool. Of course a selection of these updates will be aggregated on the team blog.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

applications have changed the rules of online community. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. He also shares some process maps for donor management. (If There are two sets of social roles here. Also announced 2.0 Commentary here.

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