Time for a Nonprofit Natural Disaster Gameplan

Posted by Allison Fine on January 20, 2010

"The outpouring of concern and donations for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti confirmed what we already know, people are good hearted and want to help. Geoff Livingston has done a fantastic job over at  Mashable identifying the five social media lessons learned from Haiti: the maturation of mobile giving,  the unfolding narrative of the disaster shared on channels like Twitter, the integration of social and traditional media, the glossing over of the underlying issues and story of Haiti’s history of poverty and corruption that excerbates natural disasters, the potential for short-attention spans for the long and difficult road to recovery for Haiti." read more:

http://afine2.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/time-for-a-nonprofit-natural-disaster-gameplan/

"Quake-Up Call"

Aaron Mesh for Willamette Week 1-27-2010

"There’s a massive earthquake in Portland’s future—and a government “prophet of doom” will tell you all about it."

http://wweek.com/editorial/3612/13620/

National Hurricane Center
Click here to download and read "Hurricanes and Global Warming" by scientists at the NHC, Roger Pielke Jr., Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, and others published in 2007 about the connection between hurricane incidence and global warming.
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