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Tech Talk: Tweeting about Isaac

This blog was written by Kim Stephens and originally posted on idisaster 2.0 blog Although Hurricane Isaac (or #Isaac if you are on Twitter) has still yet to decide where it wants to make landfall in the United States, it has already produced som...

Tech Talk: Volunteer Spotlight

Meet one of our volunteers Joallore Alon. Joallore volunteers with the Red Cross, however he holds a volunteer position that most people are probably not familiar with. He is a member of the Canadian Red Cross Twitter Team – a group of keen Twitter u...

Tech Talk: High- and low-tech innovations leading the fight against HIV/AIDS

Whether it’s a new social media campaign in British Columbia with huge aspirations of ending HIV/AIDS in the province or work by the Red Cross to improve people’s lives in countries with limited resources, innovations are changing the face of hea...

Tech Talk: What we learned from Snoop Dogg and geolocation

Geolocation technology is super useful in emergencies and many other situations. However, it can sometimes go awry and lead to some random and occasionally hilarious results. This morning, as we were going about our usual business of reading tweet...

How to decorate your home – the Red Cross way

[slideshow] There’s no question that many of us who work at the Red Cross bring our work home with us – you never do know when a disaster will happen. But, since joining Pinterest a few weeks ago, I’ve realized that many people literally bring the...

A disaster lives on

In Halifax, there’s a lot of interest this week around the 100th anniversary of one of the largest maritime disasters in our region, the sinking of the Titanic off the Atlantic coast. It's part of the city's history, as cable ships were dispatched fr...

Tech Talk: Trends to look out for in emergency response

Last week in Toronto, officials from across Canada and the US attended the annual Emergency Management and Social Media conference sponsored by Public Safety Canada, Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services and University of Tor...

Building communities online and off: a new partnership with momstown

I was with Red Cross Twitter Team member Ann Douglas at a social media event last year and she said to me: “There is someone here you must meet.” That someone was Ann Marie Burton from momstown.ca. And Ann was right – within just a few minutes of ...

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