Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Why Social Media?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2015

On this 10th anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, we polled a variety of smart NPtech cognoscenti on the single most important thing charities need to do to prepare for a disaster. With a documented procedure and technology that works from anywhere with an Internet connection. Here's what they said.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

If you pay attention to the news, you may have recently heard about a major Internet hacking of celebrity phones and devices , in which hundreds of photos were leaked to the wider Internet. There was no intentional sharing by the celebrities — they were hacked. Why It Should Matter to Organizations. Back Up Your Data Securely.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This wasn’t Tacker’s first go at responding to a disaster. Through hurricanes, fires, floods, the pandemic, and more, Two Ten awards millions of dollars in emergency relief each year, and they rely 100% on donor dollars to do it. Right before the pandemic hit, we migrated everyone to the cloud, and put all our files on SharePoint.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

And the question was really, were the networks and the Internet bandwidth for each person’s home adequate enough to do the job? I mean, the biggest thing…this would be probably a good time to speak on a little bit of a story here on the last point, which is home network and internet. Things like that. Remote work.

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