Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

We took care of it.&# The Red Cross managed to turn a PR disaster into a fundraising opportunity. Thinking quickly, they did disaster recovery on the rogue Tweet. You can’t hide or not respond : The Red Cross is an organization that deals with life-changing disasters. What is your takeaway from this mistake?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The result is a win-win situation where donors feel like they are more tapped into the impact of the organization, and the organization itself is creating a more predictable revenue stream that powers them through uncertain times and sets them up for scale. millions followers on Twitch to raise over $2.3

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

The messages included pleas for support or retweeting the news, but beyond that the stream included pleas from people on the ground in Haiti asking for emergency assistance or letting loved ones and friends know they’re okay. And they expect a response from emergency and disaster response organizations.

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NTEN

AUGUST 30, 2011

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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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

It’s not quite as terrifying as the moon falling , but Netflix’s upcoming Don’t Look Up deals with another space-related disaster: a comet that’s on a collision course with the Earth. The movie will stream on Netflix on December 24th, after premiering in select theaters on December 10th.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2006

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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.orgSource

MAY 6, 2024

Disaster recovery and business continuity are other areas to explore. Revenue Financial diversification and streams of revenue 5. But failure to use data effectively can also be dangerous. It’s a stealthy liability that grows over time. Distribute the Wealth Are the IT resources shared equally throughout your organization?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2010

There are two ways: 1) First is via U-Stream, which will be hosted on the NextGenWeb site ( [link] ). This U-Stream will be archived via The Emergency Social Data blog. This is a hybrid event which means you don’t have to be in Washington, DC to participate. You can participate remotely. 2) Via Twitter and #crisisdata hashtag.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I then opened Tweetdeck, a desktop application for managing Twitter and other social platforms, and watched the stream of content from Twitter flowing by. could become a very interesting space for real time data in situations of natural disaster and crisis communications. Just like that, it was out there. I think Scoop.it

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2010

Here's what he has tried a combination of networking with NGOs, disaster organizations, friends, and strangers participating in different Facebook groups or Twitter hashtags. (1) I can't imagine how helpless Jeff must feel, but he has been using social media and social network tools, along with phone calls to search.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 30, 2006

Here are some of the tips they gave for other disaster relief bloggers: Tips from Grace 1. Most times during a disaster, the survivors do not have power, so your blog isn’t for them, it is for the people on the outside who want to help them. They also set up a wiki. Your blog needs to be a place to “help the helper.” Tips from Sara 1.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2025

Pandemics, natural and man-made disasters, economic challenges, and governmental policy and funding changes are all potentially budget-tweaking scenarios. Hiding a change, no matter how small or how embarrassing, is a recipe for disaster. External Issues A few things in recent years have caused us all to need to adjust our budgets.

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InfoWorld

JULY 1, 2024

Products in the following categories are eligible to win: AI and machine learning: Applications AI and machine learning: Development AI and machine learning: Models API management API security Application management Application networking Application security Business intelligence and analytics Cloud backup and disaster recovery Cloud compliance (..)

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M+R

AUGUST 11, 2021

Disaster Girl Meme ” (sold for $500k). Most concerning of all, they’re an environmental disaster. Twitch is a live video streaming platform for gamers (and everything else). It allows users to take action or donate right from the streaming platform. Some well-known examples of NFTs are: .

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Bloomerang

MARCH 6, 2023

Soliciting donations from event attendees Whether you’re hosting a live event or one conducted via live stream, using Text-to-Donate can encourage attendees to make a donation in the moment. Asking for support for a timely matter If a disaster strikes or a major event affects the work you do , you might hesitate to ask for donations.

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The Verge

AUGUST 24, 2020

Not only is the 60-minute promotional show The Mouseketeers at Walt Disney World available to stream, but all the commercials that aired during the original 1977 broadcast are in there as well. Credit to artist / director Rob Sheridan for the discovery, which he posted on Twitter. Shake ‘n Bake, man. We didn’t know how good we had it. “I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2010

It has revolutionized communications on a global scale, and the transformation continues with every status update, blog post, and video stream. Tracking Environmental Disasters : The size and scope of environmental disasters appears to be growing. Social media has changed the world. It is essentially to document spacetime.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Tomorrow’s event is invite only, but it will be live streamed here. “ If Facebook does decide to flip a switch faster than expected and your nonprofit isn’t the first, will that spell disaster instead of success? Fast implementation is less important than being effective and strategic – so stay calm.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 7, 2021

And a number of bad internal decisions and outside disasters would stall Handspring long enough that Apple would go on to do what Handspring couldn’t. Springboard premieres first on Monday, October 25th, on The Verge ’s new app on TV streaming devices: Roku, Amazon Fire TV, and Android TV (Apple TV coming soon).

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Natural disasters lead to an outpouring of philanthropic support for human services organizations. Due to the on-target messaging, and the fact they coupled the “talk” with some “walk” — creating freeZoom plays people could stream — they found themselves generating many donations from folks who’d never given before.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

PDT Beth and Allison will celebrate with a virtual book party on U-Stream and Twitter (#netnon). " Facebook | The Networked Nonprofit Virtual Launch Party – "After more than a year of anticipation, on June 21 Beth Kanter and Allison Fine will release the Networked Nonprofit, published by Jossey-Bass. At 4:00 p.m. EDT/1:00 p.m.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Those memories and her own professional career led her to think more about how to build better tools for disaster managers. Two years later in Calgary, she saw the same situation again: floods and fear as friends tried to determine whether and how to evacuate. million AUD along with a matching grant.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Early last year, mobile giving evolved from an emerging technology to mainstream awareness with Haiti earthquake relief, raising approximately $45 million for victims of that natural disaster. Since that time, other disaster relief efforts such as the Gulf oil spill, Japan disaster, and tornado relief in the Southeast U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 31, 2007

Your time is dedicated to a moderate room in some Davos hotel, as your team runs a steady stream of key customers, suppliers and potential partners through. You can learn more about the environment, about human rights, about development aid, about the digital divide, about microfinance, about healthy food and about disaster response.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 21, 2011

is to be like a stream: flow within a structure. money, relationships, time, illness, natural disaster) could change your goals and direction, which is when you'll need to be able to flow around the obstacles, and shift your path. Best wishes, Britt www.brittbravo.com Tweet Share Photo of stream by me.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

I like to keep things neat but when I used to clean my room to perfection, my mom would still see that same room as a disaster. There are millions of sources of information and things for you to consume so it’s important to figure out a way to control these streams so you have more time to do things that matter. Apply constraints.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

Using the reams of data collected at the individual and aggregate level, retail media produce high-margin revenue streams. Disaster recovery can be an effective way to ease into the cloud. Before making the wholesale shift to digital, companies can start getting comfortable by using disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS).

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Live Streaming Events: Gamers and content creators on platforms like Twitch or YouTube have successfully hosted charity live streams, where viewers donate in real-time while engaging with their favorite creators. For instance, a gamer could organize a 24-hour marathon with donation goals tied to in-game milestones.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Donors want to help when disaster strikes, but they often don’t realize how long disaster recovery can really take. Donors often contribute toward disaster relief when the news of the disaster is fresh, but months or even years later, the recovery is still in progress and a variety of needs still require funding.

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Allegiance Group

JANUARY 28, 2025

Adopt a Subscription Model Modern commerce has conditioned people to pay monthly for everything from streaming services to meal prep kits. Someone who regularly gives to your disaster relief efforts is more likely to enroll in recurring giving. Explain how the donors continued support helps their neighbors in need year-round.

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AFP Blog

JUNE 5, 2013

Why Adding Tons of Features to Fundraising Software Results in Disaster | Bloomerang : Taking Inventory on Feature Usage in Nonprofit Database Systems Every leading retail store operation knows down to the penny what revenue and profit is being provided daily, weekly and monthly by each item of inventory being sold.

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Care2

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Here’s a quick run down on the Netflix disaster. In August Netflix informed its customers clumsily and without an ounce of remorse that they were splitting their streaming service and DVD via mail service into two distinct services, offering a third hybrid option at a much higher price. Are they really that much better?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

The Red Cross has been around for 130 years and so much has changed – for example with text-to-give after disasters. Many are adding hashtags and so on, but we started streaming content and letting people engage online we found we were engaging 10-100 times more people than were in the room and we could actually listen to them.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Whether involved in humanitarian response in conflict or disaster situations, development work, human rights, or peace-building, our international nonprofit customers have some of the most complex nonprofit missions on earth. This ensures an active session isn’t easily misused to access data. Learn more. Learn more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2007

Photo by David Tames from his flickr stream. after I've cleaned up my computer disaster and recovered from lack of sleep. Steve mentioned another live streaming site similar ustream (blog tv?). The Boston Media Makers is a community of practice consisting of people in the Boston area who are making (new) media.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

CrisisCamps are independent, disbursed, volunteer efforts to develop lightweight technology solutions to help with disaster relief. Volunteers in one region could follow the twitter stream or hashtags from other groups and iterate off their progress almost as if they were all in one room.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

” Alchemist will stream today’s demo day live on YouTube — you can find that right here beginning at 10:30 am pacific. Flyhound : Builds tools to help rescue groups better utilize drones to find missing persons, respond to natural disasters, etc.

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