Posts Tagged ‘haiti’
Andy’s Answers: How UPS defends its brand online
Brand discussions — both the positive and negative ones — move fast in social media. The great social media teams out there are working hard to keep up with both. At our recent BlogWell conference, UPS’ Corporate Public Relations Manager Debbie Curtis-Magley shared her experience defending the UPS brand online. She offered some great tips [...]
Mobile giving: Where does social media fit in?
The earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan last week is once again proving the mobile phone has become a viable tool in raising funds to support relief efforts. Millions of dollars were raised via text to aid people following last year’s devastating earthquake in Haiti, and the response to the disaster in Japan is on [...]
2010′s 5 most engaging social-media stories
This post is written by Geoff Livingston, an author and co-founder of Zoetica. Read more of his writing at his personal website and follow him @Geoffliving. It’s easy to gripe online about the ways that something could be better. During the holidays, however, it’s always good to consider things that filled us with a sense [...]
Responding to disaster 2.0: Haiti’s “wake-up call” for the Red Cross
Social networks are profoundly changing the way we receive and react to news about disasters around the world. In the aftermath of the earthquake that struck Haiti in January, the response on Twitter provided a “textbook example” of how people use social media as a community to share information about a crisis, provide solutions to [...]
Live from Social Media Week: How Twitter saved lives in Haiti
Twitter can save lives, influence world events and give ordinary citizens a way to take control of the flow of information, said NBC reporter Ann Curry at a recent Social Media Week event. Curry speaks from experience: She went from writing headlines to making them last month, when she used Twitter to convince the U.S. [...]
Sending out an S.O.S.
It’s often said that crisis brings out the best in people — I certainly think it brings out the best in Twitter. Users in Haiti are responding to a 7.0 earthquake by sharing first-hand accounts of the event and photos of the devastation. It’s true that a journalist could have filed a report over the [...]
