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What To Do When There Is An Emergency? Red Cross has an App for that!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It also includes a number of features that go beyond what is currently available in other free first aid apps—particularly the ability to earn and share badges with your social network. The Red Cross is releasing the app this morning and it’s the first in a series of Red Cross preparedness apps that will be unveiled this year.

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Katrina IT Musings

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

They remind me a lot of Rod Beckstrom's ideas that I posted earlier about IT support following a disaster. Our agency has that functionality - we have disaster web site, email address and phone number on our ID badges to let the agency know where we are and what is happening, but there isn't any connection outside.

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Hurricane Irene and the Nonprofit Social Media Storm

NTEN

We know our friends over at the Red Cross have been expertly using social media for disaster response for years now, but this weekend, with Hurricane Irene set to touch down all along the east coast, we saw many other organizations and government entities reaching out via social media, as well.

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Airbnb launches nonprofit to provide stays for essential workers and refugees

The Verge

Airbnb is launching a nonprofit to allow the hosts who rent out their properties on its platform to provide free and discounted stays to refugees, people affected by natural disasters, and frontline workers in the coronavirus pandemic. Open Homes started in 2012, inspired by a host who opened her home to people affected by Hurricane Sandy.

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10 Things to Know When Moving To A More ?Capable Software Platform

VisionLink

Alternately, if you can foresee circumstances where you would want to support crisis calls, homeless intake, elderly services, disaster relief, and other family service programs (through your own offices or through partner agencies), then you are looking for a software solution that is designed to support multi-purpose, multi-partner use.

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Level Up and Change the World: Gamification Apps

Tech Soup

One of the biggest trends in mobile giving right now is gamification: the integration of game dynamics, like points, badges, or levels, into a fundraising or social good campaign. SF Heroes is a disaster preparedness iPhone app for the San Francisco area created for the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management.

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Four Social Media Fundraising Tools

NTEN

They also do a solid job leveraging the Pavlovian points / badges / stars / stickers that are, like, so hot right now. I think this tool would be particularly effective following a disaster or other unexpected event - just like the very similar mechanism in text message donations.