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Haiti Earthquake: Orphans, Crisis Mapping, and Tech Volunteers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Earthquake Aftermath in Jacmel Photos by Andrew Bigosinski, Director of Ciné Lekol. Crisis Mapping My colleagues at Ushahidi have been working around the clock and around the globe mapping crisis information from Haiti. Tags: maps. Please spread this emergency link: EarthquakeOrphans.com . Disclaimer: I'm on the board).

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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

An ad-hoc group of tech bloggers based in Kenya decided to do something about it. The election controversy became the pretext for ethnic clashes that displaced hundreds of thousands of people and claimed the lives of more than 600, some in grisly fashion.

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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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Technology Toolbox: Learn from Occupy Wall Street to Occupy YOUR Street

Amy Sample Ward

Be as we have seen in events around the world, the revolution will be tweeted, photographed, mapped and posted to our status. Creating a space where you can collect and aggregate the news, content, and updates of your movement is important for people to better understand, follow, and join you. How To: Use Tech to Organize Today.

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Going to the Inauguration? Tech You!

NTEN

Flickr Photo: Travlr After I sent out a message announcing our Drupal Webinar Series , my in-box filled up with "Isn't the first one of those scheduled for Inauguration Day? To help: You'll probably want a map of some sort. Tags: NPTech inauguration flickr twitter google maps iPhone. Aren't you going?" " messages.

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Big Data, Philanthropy, and Health at SOCAP13

Tech Soup

The tools aggregate data from a few different sources: The Center for Responsive Politics , GovTrack.us , Follow The Money , and the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. This isn't your average tech company, however. CHNA is part of a larger project called Community Commons , an interactive mapping, networking, and learning tool.

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If your organization tweets it, will they donate?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by NimagesDR. This would have to be done with some social networking analysis software that maps twitter accounts to donors and displays results. TwitLinks aggregates the latest links from the worlds top tech twitter users. Can Twitter help your cause raise money?, a question asked by the Give and Take blog.