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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

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. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone. Citizen-Powered Response.

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The Commons Introduces Grassroots Mobile Survey

Saleforce Nonprofit

Enter: Grassroots Mobile Survey, now available to install. By using a mobile phone, they can collect data on the go and easily sync it to their Salesforce platform if they are in an area where the internet is unavailable. Cori O’Brien (CO): Trish, you brought Grassroots Mobile Survey to The Commons.

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How to Back Up Your Android Phone or Tablet

Tech Soup

It can be a tedious chore, but if you use mobile devices at your organization, it is likely there is valuable data stored on them. In this three-part series, we'll walk you through backing up your mobile device. In this three-part series, we'll walk you through backing up your mobile device. Built-In Backup Settings.

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How to Backup Your Windows Phone or Windows 8 Tablet

Tech Soup

It can be a tedious chore, but if you use mobile devices at your organization, it is likely there is valuable data stored on them. In this three-part series, we'll walk you through backing up your mobile device. We'll start with Windows devices, but posts on Android and iOS phones and tablets will come in the following weeks.

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Giving Trends in Mexico: Millennials and Gen Z Drive Rise in Online Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Fundar is a 20-year old Mexican NGO in the filed of research and advocacy to fight corruption, impunity, and to adovcate for human rights. Mobile: 70% of our traffic comes from mobile. Charities need to adopt mobile-first solutions to collect online donations. 78% donate in response to natural disasters. ?

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The Single Most Important Thing to Prepare for Disasters

Tech Soup

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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TechSoup Makes an E-Book

Tech Soup

We recently updated our book, The Resilient Organization: A Guide for Disaster Planning and Recovery. While we are providing the document as a PDF file also, ebooks are easier to resize fonts and thus easier to read, especially on an e-ink device. Ideally you would be writing them as an HTML file in the first place.