Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

Andy Carvin launched the Gustav Information Center on Ning, and through social networks, word is spreading fast - the hash tag #gustav is being used. Home Depot already using the tag to update on stories in the Hurricane???s Photo by Corburn. hat tip Tom Watson ).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. The system had three components: The Image Tagger — Volunteers sort through news photos coming out of Haiti and categorize (tag) them with keywords like “adult, child, alive, deceased.”

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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. Tags: Conferences Experimentation. During an emergency, 41% of respondents would use social media to let their love ones know they are safe. Hope you will too.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Over the last few years of tough economic times, I couldn’t help but take a closer look at the price tag that comes with maintaining our culture. It isn’t very difficult to find easy, inexpensive ways for to give back to your city and your community — especially in the aftermath of natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

flickr: hellojenuine Starting the month on the heels of a hurricane ( here's how you can help ), those of us safe and dry at NTEN World headquarters head into November with more than ever to be thankful for. All month long, use the tag #NTENThanks to share your appreciation for your fellow nonprofit technology community members.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

MicroMappers , a "microtasking" service, lets users tag tweets and photos to help the United Nations Office of for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) in its relief efforts after Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda. Doctors Without Borders has deployed emergency teams to bring care to people affected by the typhoon.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2009

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? Tags: Backing Up Data Hardware Running Your Organization Security Software Tech Planning Technology Assessment Troubleshooting and Maintenance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The non-profit’s followers tagged friends in the comments section to share Wounda’s story. For example, when Hurricane Harvey hit, ShelterBox USA was swift to put out a video letting their audience know that they had people on the ground assessing how they would be able to help. The reason?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2005

or another entity working to rescue and reunite hurricane-affected pets with their families. Or, you can just dedicate blog space to listing websites where people can donate money (maybe even challenge people to match your donation), or share a story of a hurricane survivor. People need help now. That's the power of the blogosphere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Objective : Provide a home site for of CDC’s mobile information about hurricane preparedness and the flu season. Due to the increasing amount of dangerous hurricane like Katrina, Gustav and Ike, the CDC recently created a mobile Web site to further assist during times of emergency. Tags: guest blogging mobile social media.

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NTEN

AUGUST 17, 2010

All the event organizers ask is that you find a venues the can accomodate the following: "People, hurricanes, New Orleans themed music (i.e. Tags: geoff livingston NPTech NTEN Social Media Program. You can attend OR HOLD an event of your own. I have a cassingle of " And We Danced " in my momento box to this day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

Photo by Christine As you know by now, Hurricane Gustav looks even more destructive than Katrina (see this round up from Lisa Stone, BlogHer , of the news reports and links). If you search on the hash tag #gustav , you'll find many relevant threads. shelter, looking for someone or are an evacuee. The widget's resources.

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

AFP: MySpace links users to US hurricane emergency alerts: "NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) — In what is heralded as the seeds of an Internet-age emergency broadcast system, MySpace has teamed with the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to spread news on hurricanes through users of the online social network.As

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Bernard that is providing hurricane survivors with the recovery resources they need in a safe and all-inclusive setting. Include links in your email tag lines. Meet Sharon S. Ober-Lehn who is working at Community Center of St.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

" Macon Phillips, special assistant to the President and director of new media for the White House, was a volunteer during Hurricane Katrina. In the five years since Hurricane Katrina, social media has exploded, and its potential for use in crises was clear after the Haiti earthquake. One person can post a message.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

As noted in an USA Today article , online "donations for the first five days after the January 12 disaster totaled 19% more than during the same time frame after the 2004 Asian tsunami and 109% higher than the equivalent following Hurricane Katrina in 2005."

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2008

But it has also been driven by major events like 9/11 , the Asian Tsunami , and Hurricane Katrina. Tags: Social Networking fundraising trends. The rate of change in the nonprofit world has been steadily increasing over the past decade. This is in part because the easier you can communicate, the faster change happens. And the 2008 U.S.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

For example, the image here is a map showing hurricane impact on the Gulf Coast from 1850 - 2005. Tags: Online Seminar Databases Software Marketing. GIS software can help you build maps, but it has many other capabilities related to the querying, visualization, and interpretation of complex data.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

It's also in part because it's around this time of year that the news is full of warnings about hurricanes and wildfires and we want to do our part to make sure that nonprofits and libaries have resources especially for them. This is, in part, because September is National Preparedness Month.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2013

He says that his inspiration for doing this work came to him in wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 when AFP needed to find additional ways to stay in touch with members. Much of their blog contact is tagged (e.g. ?NPtech Facebook had just been made available to the general public and so AFP became an early adopter of social media.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

As noted in an USA Today article , online "donations for the first five days after the January 12 disaster totaled 19% more than during the same time frame after the 2004 Asian tsunami and 109% higher than the equivalent following Hurricane Katrina in 2005."

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 5, 2022

Let’s take a second to play a quick association game: Think about a natural disaster, such as a hurricane or an earthquake. Here are some ideas on designing this from Pinterest boards on Valentine’s day tags. billion ( National Retail Foundation 2017 Survey ) Father’s Day: $15.5 billion ( NRF 2017 Survey ) Halloween: $9.1

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

September is Preparedness Month: We know that September is usually a bad month for hurricanes and other natural disasters. Tags: nptechtagsummary. To learn more about it, join the Mozilla crew and friends for a Twitter chat next Monday evening. The NY Chapter of the Red Cross offers Ten Tips in this YouTube Video.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2005

Since last Christmas, our planet has suffered through the tsunami in the Indian Ocean, this week's devastating earthquake in Asia, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the recent horrific mudslides in Central America. Tags: nptech , fundraising What a year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

But often our good intentions are undermined by the fear that we are so insignificant in the big scheme of things that nothing we can do will actually help feed the world’s hungry, fix the damage of a Hurricane Katrina or even get a healthy lunch program up and running in the local school. I also had an opportunity.

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Care2

JUNE 28, 2009

Prior to this study, the Index of the National Fundraising Performance had only been showing a gradual decline in donor numbers since the US Gulf Coast hurricanes of 2005. Other key metrics from the study include: Tags: Nonprofit Benchmark Studies Online Fundraising. However, things rapidly changed from Q4 2008 to Q1 in 2009.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." " The year was 2005. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. The buzzword then was Web 2.0,

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The tools are coming together to help people collaborate and receive real-time information such hurricane movements. Technorati Tags: wes08sep. For example, someone could mash-up a feed containing requests made to DC’s Department of Public Works with a map as done by Everyblock.com. It also allowed the U.K.

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 31, 2008

Demo 2008: Good2Gether Uses Social Technology to Help Nonprofits | Epicenter from Wired.com: "Founder Gregory McHale came up with the idea for Good2Gether while looking up information on Hurricane Katrina. Tags: NPtech. He created a widget which.

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AFP Blog

JUNE 13, 2008

Virtually New Orleans : CU News : Boulder Daily Camera: "High school students enrolled in the camp are spending this week intensively exploring what led up to the 2005 storm that ravaged the Gulf Coast and went down in history books as one of the costliest and deadliest hurricanes.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Kari: But the good news is, if you are using Bloomerang, you will have a lot of these, or if you’re not, you can start tagging things so that you can. you know, when Puerto Rico had that hurricane, you know, that was huge here. So that’s the great side of it as well. Living in Florida, like I do, there is. It was huge.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

I see that there is a major tipping point happening in the global climate change movement and consciousness of global warming, thanks in part to Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth , and simply the manifestations that we have seen from hurricanes to melting icecaps, and that it's a time that I could not be working on anything else but this.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. ” Climate resiliency . Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

In 2001 a hurricane struck that island of Cuba, straining that nation's ability to provide commodities such as rice and corn for their population. Tags: NPTech NTEN. Many that see the free market system as leveling the economic playing field might argue against public loans or grants to small businesses.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

On the Flickr point, I’ve just been playing with Flickr for Mindapples too, and I’ve started tagging images ‘mindapples’ that make me feel happy and mentally healthy. Andy, I’ve started tagging some photos from my Flickr photostream “mindapples&# , as you suggest. I enjoyed thinking about this one.

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

For example, the location, number of bedrooms, lot size, if it’s hurricane grade, etc. Your requirements will serve as a roadmap to your implementation price tag. Rather than just thinking about a price tag, you need to remember that your AMS is an investment for the future of your association.

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