{"id":176790,"date":"2010-01-13T20:25:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T01:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/13\/haiti-earthquake-triggers-1-5m-in-mobile-donations-1500-facebook-updates-a-minute\/"},"modified":"2010-01-13T20:25:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T01:25:45","slug":"haiti-earthquake-triggers-1-5m-in-mobile-donations-1500-facebook-updates-a-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/176790","title":{"rendered":"Haiti earthquake triggers $1.5M in mobile donations, 1,500 Facebook updates a minute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-153582\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/7d275_haiti.jpg\" alt=\"haiti\" width=\"582\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At a time when there are few news organizations with the capital to put reporters on the ground in Haiti, social media is helping to fill the gap with information and financial relief for victims of the earthquake.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than $1,500,000 has been raised so far through the Red Cross&#8217; mobile donation program, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/s\/p\/115458.htm\">Jared Cohen,<\/a> who is on the State Department&#8217;s policy planning staff. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcross.org\/portal\/site\/en\/menuitem.94aae335470e233f6cf911df43181aa0\/?vgnextoid=15c0c5a210826210VgnVCM10000089f0870aRCRD\">Red Cross started a program today,<\/a> allowing the public to donate $10 by texting \u201cHaiti\u201d to 90999. Music artist Wyclef Jean is also running a mobile donation campaign for his charity Yele. If you text &#8216;Yele&#8217; to 501 501, $5 dollars will be donated. Both programs automatically add the charges to your cellphone bill.<\/li>\n<li>1,500 status updates a minute mentioning &#8220;Haiti&#8221; are running through Facebook, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/anoyes\">Andrew Noyes,<\/a> the company&#8217;s manager of public policy communications.<\/li>\n<li> Haiti URLs have <a href=\"http:\/\/research.zscaler.com\/2010\/01\/haiti-earthquake-also-rocks-internet.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zscaler%2Fresearch+%28Zscaler+Research%29\">seen a 1578% increase in traffic<\/a> and a 5407% jump in bandwidth usage, according to Zscaler, a cloud-based security service for web traffic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-153594\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e0fdf_screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"screenshot\" width=\"320\" height=\"267\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A number of citizen journalism projects are providing news and media from the ground. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalvoices.org\">Global Voices,<\/a> a non-profit blog aggregator for international news, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/georgiap\/live-from-haiti\">has created Twitter lists of people on the ground in Haiti<\/a>. So has <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes\/haiti-earthquake\">The New York Times.<\/a> The Boston Globe&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2010\/01\/earthquake_in_haiti.html\">Big Picture also has a truly heart-wrenching collection of photos,<\/a> which is where the top picture comes from.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/haiti.ushahidi.com\/page\/index\/1\">Ushahidi<\/a>, a non-profit project that uses mobile phones to crowdsource news and information in times of crisis, started up a Haiti site where hospitals can show what services they offer and people can post messages to search for family or friends.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-153600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e0fdf_Picture-1.png\" alt=\"ushahidi\" width=\"544\" height=\"298\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/g7qrasUpznLrZrO2QgP6G1Qycvc\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e0fdf_di\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/g7qrasUpznLrZrO2QgP6G1Qycvc\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e0fdf_di\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Venturebeat?a=Y3pKvloJfKI:-IDBwBE7aqk:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e0fdf_Venturebeat?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Venturebeat?a=Y3pKvloJfKI:-IDBwBE7aqk:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e0fdf_Venturebeat?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Venturebeat?a=Y3pKvloJfKI:-IDBwBE7aqk:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e9009_Venturebeat?i=Y3pKvloJfKI:-IDBwBE7aqk:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Venturebeat?a=Y3pKvloJfKI:-IDBwBE7aqk:I9og5sOYxJI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e9009_Venturebeat?d=I9og5sOYxJI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Venturebeat?a=Y3pKvloJfKI:-IDBwBE7aqk:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e9009_Venturebeat?i=Y3pKvloJfKI:-IDBwBE7aqk:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e9009_Y3pKvloJfKI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Venturebeat\/~3\/Y3pKvloJfKI\/\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when there are few news organizations with the capital to put reporters on the ground in Haiti, social media is helping to fill the gap with information and financial relief for victims of the earthquake. 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