World Food Program has offered its gratitude to FarmVille farmers for donating generously to help rebuild a school in Haiti. In addition to this, the pupils at the school are being provided with free lunch from FarmVille farmer donations.
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theGrio, NBC News’ African American-targeted news and opinion site, is marking the anniversary of the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti with news package Buried in Crisis: Haiti One Year Later, which features contributions from Mara Schiavocampo, Jeff Johnson, Todd Johnson, and Garry Pierre-Pierre.
Among the features, Schiavocampo and Johnson each produced original reports about life in Port-au-Prince since the tragedy struck, with Schiavocampo accompanying former U.S. President Bill Clinton on his visit to the island nation.
Wednesday is the actual one-year anniversary of the earthquake.
Twitter enables you to know what Ashton Kutcher is thinking and where your friend is eating lunch, but could it also save your life? The nation’s largest relief organization, the American Red Cross, believes so, and is taking steps to help.
To capitalize on the potential social media provides to help during disasters, the Red Cross last week brought together more than 150 leaders in the government, social media, emergency response and non-profit sectors for the agency’s first ever “Emergency Social Data Summit.”
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Earlier this month I attended Jeff Pulver’s 140 Character Conference (#140conf) in Tel Aviv and one of the most memorable presentations was by the Israel Defense Forces. The IDF has really taken social media under its wing, being one of the first military forces to embrace networks like Twitter and YouTube. At the 140 Character Conference, IDF Spokesperson Lt. Aliza Landez and Shalev Hulio of MediAnd talked about the IDF Search and Rescue team’s use of Twitter earlier this year in Haiti, when searching for and saving earthquake victims.
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Updating a social networking website has never been easier with the plethora of tools available. And for many of today’s Internet users, updating these networks has become a common thing. According to a study performed by the North American Technographics Empowerment Online Survey, 33% of the surveyed group indicated that they update a social networking website or post tweets to Twitter on a weekly basis.
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Zynga, the developer of Farmville, has raised $1.5 million for the earth quake relief efforts in Haiti. Zynga collaborated with World Food Program for the relief efforts and the generated funds would be dispersed via WFP in the affected areas. The money was raised by selling virtual goods to gamers across Zynga’s top four games.
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