http://www.abcey.com/blog/social-media/how-social-media-can-save-lives-part-2-haiti.html Blog Tagline Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.abcey.com/blog/social-media/how-social-media-can-save-lives-part-2-haiti.html/comment-page-1#comment-65 Eric Lukazewski Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:08:33 +0000 http://www.abcey.com/blog/?p=314#comment-65 Thank you Amanda for posting this article. It is easy to feel compassion and pity for the people of Haiti, but truth be told, those sentiments do little to HELP. The power of Social Media has brought raw video, images and stories to us and we need to use that power to spread the news on what can be done to provide donations, prayers and resources in their time of need. This is not a Twitter trend of the day and we need to be spreading support, not just pictures and news, consistently as the people of Haiti grieve and begin the long road to rebuilding. I believe all of us, as Social Media beacons, are channels for these messages and bear some sort of responsibility to retweet and post to those who may not know what they can do to help. Thank you Amanda for posting this article. It is easy to feel compassion and pity for the people of Haiti, but truth be told, those sentiments do little to HELP. The power of Social Media has brought raw video, images and stories to us and we need to use that power to spread the news on what can be done to provide donations, prayers and resources in their time of need. This is not a Twitter trend of the day and we need to be spreading support, not just pictures and news, consistently as the people of Haiti grieve and begin the long road to rebuilding. I believe all of us, as Social Media beacons, are channels for these messages and bear some sort of responsibility to retweet and post to those who may not know what they can do to help.

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