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.

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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. Voice over IP phones are probably the most important (and least utilized) technology for that purpose. 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. Their iCloud online storage was targeted, and hackers stole personal data and photos from their mobile phones and iPads.

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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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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2018

Like other areas of disaster relief , wildfires, particularly in California, have becomes an increasingly common occurrence. But, when you examine disaster-related funding in the last five years, funding directed at wildfires is $13.1 million, while hurricane-related funding totals $480.6 Perhaps length of time. Perhaps not.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

The things that we realize that happened most around file-sharing and collaboration and having two people look at the same document. And before you know it, there are so many different file-sharing systems, and so many different…for example, marketing solutions and things like that. There are probably many reports to file.

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