Tag Archives: Facebook

Formula 1 Driver Heikki Kovalainen reacts for safe hospitals

May 17, 2011 – 12:55 pm

One of the fastest men in the world, Lotus team Formula 1 driver Heikki Kovalainen, has become the first champion to join WHO’s campaign (designed by us!) and challenge the public to beat his reaction time. ”I feel that this is a meaningful and effective way to help ensure hospitals and health facilities continue to [...]

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New project links Facebook+SMS in support of maternal health in crises settings

April 20, 2011 – 7:46 pm

A new M4ID-designed Facebook and SMS communications initiative, Mama: Together for Safe Births in Crises, was launched today in New York by the Women’s Refugee Commission. The project addresses an important information gap for maternal health workers in emergencies, as identified by WRC research.
Through Mama, health workers are now able to identify themselves as maternal [...]

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Next Phase of WHO Safe Hospitals Campaign

March 16, 2011 – 11:50 am

M4ID has been supporting WHO South-East Asia in a regional campaign to raise public awareness and push governments to take concrete actions in making hospitals safe from disasters. In brief this means building them to withstand natural disasters, having emergency plans in place, training staff to respond and continue to provide services post-disaster.  We built [...]

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Nonprofit Social Media Benchmark Study

February 4, 2010 – 4:16 pm

M+R Strategic Services has released a Nonprofit Social Media Benchmarks Study.  The study analyzed growth and social engagement metrics on Facebook and Twitter for nonprofit organizations, including online communities of Oxfam, Human Rights Campaign and Charity:Water. The key findings for Facebook are, among others:

Only a small fraction of  the 180,000 organizations on Facebook have [...]

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Global Time Spent on Social Media Sites up by 82%

January 25, 2010 – 12:26 pm

According to the recent report by Nielsen, in December 2009, global Internet users spent more than 5,5 hours on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. This is an 82% increase from 2008 when users spent just over 3 hours on these sites during December month. Moreover, overall traffic to social networking sites has grown [...]

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Social media support for Haiti forcing shift

January 21, 2010 – 11:09 am

Donations for Haiti continue to pour in and are, in the US alone, exceeding $ 305 million according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy .  Large sums are being donated  online and through text messages. By Wednesday, the American Red Cross had received more than $25 million through its campaign to encourage $10 gifts through texts.
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Bra colour craze on Facebook

January 9, 2010 – 2:05 pm

Tens of thousands of female users yesterday began updating their Facebook statuses with colours: “black”, “beige”, or “white and pink”. It created great buzz among the Facebook community and bloggers who, after some confusion, reported that the colour statuses were part of a new campaign to help raise awareness for breast cancer and [...]

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Facebook – the future of Charity Shops?

December 11, 2009 – 6:40 pm

There’s speculation that Facebook will develop a new universal currency, Facebook credits, which could be used to buy physical, not just virtual gifts, as has been the case so far. The social networking site is also currently experimenting with charity gifts. Although the development of a merchant platform is still at the alpha stage, and [...]

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Real-time search now possible through Google

December 8, 2009 – 10:56 am

Google yesterday launched its real-time search which also includes updates from Twitter and social networks MySpace and Facebook.. it’s the first time ever that any search engine has integrated the real-time web in this way.  The real-time stream of data will be shown within Google’s normal results page and will also be available on smart [...]

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Social media fundraiser

October 19, 2009 – 1:49 pm

The weekend’s ‘beat cancer’ social media fundraiser has so far resulted in more than 200,000 tweets.  The campaign idea is very straight forward, four cancer charities are aiming for a world record in social media mentions and for every tweet, Facebook status update, or blog post containing the #beatcancer hashtag, eBay, PayPal and MillerCoors donate [...]

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