sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2011

Disaster Giving Giving both online and offline towards disaster relief had a significant impact on the nonprofit sector in 2010. Online giving in response to Haiti was higher than all previous disasters and demonstrates that the Internet is a first response channel of choice for donors.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Have you checked out TechSoup's new Disaster Planning and Recovery Toolkit ? We've updated and expanded our downloadable book, The Resilient Organization: A Guide for Disaster Planning and Recovery , and hosted two webinars on disaster planning. Back That Mac Up: Isn't Time Machine enough?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2005

Andy Carvin has created Katrina Aftermath Blog and has declared September 2: International Blogging for Disaster Relief Day. Sometime tomorrow, take a break from whatever it is you usually blog about, and post something constructive related to disaster relief. One collection of disaster relief resources, countless bloggers.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

The view includes FEMA boundaries, open disaster shelters, social media hash tags specific to the Winter Storm, and other relevant information. In the disaster realm, this solution is the same platform supporting the National Shelter System, Safe & Well, and the Coordinated Assistance Network.

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NCE Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2009

Tags: Tools ddos disaster media social twitter. Even if they couldn’t tweet their status, Twitter was able to post to their information to their blog and get information out through print and new media outlets. How many of you are using more than one type of social media? Please let us know in the comments section.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2009

Does your organization have a plan to keep your technology, data, and assets protected in the event of an emergency or disaster? What if it's not an actual disaster like a hurricane or flood, but a staff member simply loses or breaks a laptop carrying essential supporter data? Join me on Thursday, August 20 at 11 a.m.

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Judi Sohn

JULY 9, 2009

According to their website, the service provides alerts for: Major emergencies, like terrorism or natural disasters. The ad seems to imply that if disaster strikes and you’re sitting on the Metro, you won’t know about it until it’s potentially too late. Tags: Personal Posts. Severe weather. Severe traffic.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

During certain moments – such as natural disasters – they quickly pivot planned content to be more contextual and reflect new priorities. They maintain a standard number of posts per day for optimal performance. They also have a keen focus on the broader environment, ensuring their content is relevant and appropriate to the moment.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

One talked about species extinction, and the other talked about the prevalence of natural disasters. The one talking about natural disasters was responsible for 80% of your donors, and 10% of those donors went on to become regular givers when you asked them 2 weeks later. They simply refer to tags that can be added to any URL.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

If you haven't already, check out TechSoup's new Disaster Planning and Recovery Toolkit. In addition to our free book, The Resilient Organization: A Guide for Disaster Planning and Recovery , you'll also find webinars, articles, and links to other information around the Internet.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2009

Have you ever checked out TechSoup's Disaster Planning and Recovery Toolkit ? It's a good place to turn for any organization whose tech infrastructure has suffered a disaster, natural or otherwise. Even if you haven't been impacted by a disaster , your input is still important. Respond by July 10 to be eligible for the drawing.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

As you may have noticed, we've been writing tooklits and guides , conducting webinars , and blogging about different ways to plan and prepare for disasters and emergencies over the past couple of weeks. Tags: Physical Security Running Your Organization Services Software Staff Tech Planning Training Troubleshooting and Maintenance.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

" Tags: roundup behavior bethkanter bookmarks campaigns challenges climatechange competitions disaster facebook fundraising innovation list mob mobile nature nptech postalicious resources strategy.

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Web Bookmarking Haiti Lesson 132

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 7, 2009

Always have a disaster recovery plan. Tags: Data blogging Uncategorized Technology Zen services Web Tools. Lessons to learn: Always have your own backup of your data/content. Remember when setting up a website or blog that if you use a service, the data is not in your hands, but in someone elses.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? New Blogs Yes, Tobias Eigen blogs and we've just discovered his blog in the NpTech Tag stream. Privaterra blog showed up in the tag stream. nonprofit technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

As we have seen in natural disasters from Hurricane Katrina to the Chile Earthquake, people are using social media to reach out for help. And they expect a response from emergency and disaster response organizations. Tags: Conferences Experimentation. Hope you will too.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

We've compiled a list of organizations to which you can donate to support these efforts as well as some disaster recovery resources. Oxfam International's disaster relief teams are assessing the extent of the damage in the Philippines and deploying water and sanitation materials. Donate to Organizations Providing Relief.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 1, 2009

If you work for the Red Cross, as an example, you can search in Causes for “red cross&# and find groups that are focused on the Red Cross but also those focused on specific disaster relief efforts and international projects. the key words for your sector (like “blood drive&# and “disaster relief&# if you are the Red Cross).

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NCE Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2010

What steps do you need to take to make sure your agency is prepared for a natural disaster like this. Tags: Facebook Marketing and Awareness Tools communications crisis earthquake wyclef yele. How would you provide services? How would you communicate? Please feel free to share your feelings on this in our comments section.

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Learning Haiti Charity Broadcast 109

sgEngage

MAY 10, 2011

All four of the Social Services organizations raised a significant amount of their online giving because of disaster relief efforts. Earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, and New Zealand along with floods and landslides in other parts of the world drove donors to give online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

It was initially developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008 and has been used for many other projects, including tracking disaster relief efforts in Haiti. Tags: Networks mobile. More recently, the London Tube used it to track disruptions from the Tube strike.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? The main reason I'm still tagging is for retrieval when asked for a resource on and to write this summary. communication surrounding disaster relief and reporting."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2010

When a disaster of this magnitude strikes, our impulse is to help in some way. People work on projects based on their skills and interests to create technological tools and resources for responders to use in mitigating disasters and crises around the world. Tweet from kateatyrownrisk.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Using Perimeter, citizens can upload geospatial-tagged information such as a new fire outbreak or a tree that has fallen and is now blocking a road. Unlike with just a text message, Perimeter will send both the message and a URL, which can then display maps and real-time information on how a disaster is progressing.

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Disaster San Francisco California Map 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2010

The American Red Cross is hosting the Emergency Social Data Summit to bring together government agencies, emergency management professionals, disaster response organizations, tech companies and concerned citizens to address how to reply to these digital requests for help more effectively. Tags: Conferences.

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NTEN

APRIL 22, 2010

Except in the immediate aftermath of a disaster, clickthrough rate drops off when UNICEF-USA posts to their fan page more than 3 times per day. Clickthrough rates skyrocket during disasters, providing the best possible opportunity for fundraising. Tags: facebook NPTech NTEN Social Media. > Download the full e-Book for Free.

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Facebook Nonprofit Disaster Social Media 74

NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Generate interest in your organization’s social issue agenda in the absence of a “media worthy” disaster. Tags: Blackbaud #nptech CauseShift Non-Profit Nonprofit Confrences sxsw. Chris Noble on Check in for Charity, Pepsi Refresh and Social Media for Nonprofits. NetSquared with Amy Sample Ward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. A Brief History of Hash Tags Chris Messina ( @chrismessina) is credited with starting hashtags and has written about how to make them most useful. That's, of course, if the tag used is unique enough. It still continues to be used on Twitter as well as other places.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2010

Tracking Environmental Disasters : The size and scope of environmental disasters appears to be growing. In 2008, we had the Tennessee coal ash spill , which was billed as “the largest environmental disaster of its kind in the United States.&# Tags: Guest Post mobile. It is essentially to document spacetime.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Emily Weinberg has some terrific notes from the "Branding Through Websites: Building Your Brand from the First Click" Heather Carpenter summarizes what she learned from the Disaster Planning for Nonprofits session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Philanthropy, Fundraising, Disasters, and Video Good corporate citizenship was highlighted at Davis this past week. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week. Guess you can't have too many social bookmarking applications.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Ed Granger-Happ, Nethope; Claire Bonilla, Disaster Response Microsoft; Daniel Ben-Horin, TechSoup Global, Vida Durant, CARE USA. Ed Granger-Happ shows off his office server in a carry on bag that disaster relief workers can use to set up IT support in the field. Tags: Content Networks Philanthropy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Actually uploading photos to Flickr doesn’t require much time, but shooting digital photos, editing them, and then properly adding them to Flickr sets and collections with tags and titles can become time-consuming. It can also work well for nonprofits that respond to natural disasters or crises.

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 21, 2009

It could have been an expensive disaster, but a great free anti-malware tool made it easy to remove the malicious software myself, without tech support, before any harm was done.( Tags: Non-profit technology nptech security application. read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Tags: wiki. That is until Hurricane Ida slammed into El Salvador killing 91 people as of this writing. It is now headed towards the gulf coast of the US. I've just come across another site/platform that is designed for aggregating information for emergencies and they have also established a Hurricane Ida Information Site.

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Hurricane Wiki El Salvador Volunteer 94

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

" URL Shorteners: Blind(ly) Heading Towards Disaster? " Tags: roundup bookmarks casestudies facebook future honesty innovation internet law list marketing millennials politics postalicious research resources twitter. However, just today a.ly shortener called vb.ly And now this has all.ly url shorteners on high alert.

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