February 2, 2010 • 4:37 pm 0
144 Social Media Policies by Doug Cornelius. You can also use the underlying data in the Google Docs Spreadsheet. The spreadsheet also has the date of the policy (if there is one).
Please let Doug Cornelius at ComplianceBuilding know of other policies that are not in the list.
Sample with some of the policies:
Filed under: Community, Organization, technology
January 14, 2010 • 9:02 pm 0
Social media, satellite communications spring into action to help earthquake-devastated Haiti
The federal government is playing a major role in earthquake relief and recovery efforts in Haiti, aided by an array of technology tools, some of which were not been available in past disasters. Social media, satellite communications and other innovations could make a real difference as the battered island nation struggles to regain some degree of normalcy.
Social media tools, significantly Twitter and Facebook are playing a major role in communicating information about the effort. The State Department began sharing information on its official Facebook pages hours after the earthquake struck.
One post told people who want to donate money or provide assistance whom to contact. Persons responding to the post shared other ways to provide assistance.
State’s Web site points people wishing to donate or provide assistance to theCenter For International Disaster Information. The center operates under a grant from the United States Agency for International Development’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance and support from IBM. Continue reading
Filed under: Community, Organization, technology, Transnational
January 13, 2010 • 11:10 pm 0
Original Blog Entry at AdMedia
For the citizens of Haiti, real-time search may have arrived just in time. The 7.0 earthquake that shook the poverty-stricken nation hit just 5 hours ago, but you can easily find information about the disaster, and, most importantly organizations to donate to.
On each of the top four search engines, searching “Haiti relief” yielded extremely useful information. Google and Bing were the most comprehensive:
Filed under: Community, Organization, technology, Transnational
