Social Media Summoning Aid for Disaster Relief in Japan (ContributorNetwork)

Thursday, March 17, 2011 3:01 PM

In nowadays of crisis, ethnic media much as Youtube.com, Facebook.com, Linkedin.com and Twitter.com crapper hold improve awareness, denture communication gaps and acquire hold for comfort efforts, much as those needed right today in disaster-ravaged Japan. There is a worldwide outpouring of hold and some efforts are existence made by ethnic media to hold grouping manage with the current tragedies striking Nihon in the terminal week.

Youtube.com

There are some videos existence posted on YouTube by disaster comfort organizations, grouping participating as onlookers and lovesome or afraid individuals asking that we provide to charities.

In a recording named "Dispatch from Sendai," Save the Children UK (user: savethechildrenuk) has free a recording most the plight of Asian children who hit been displaced by the past events. The recording says that Save the Children has dispatched teams to Sendai to hold these children by setting up "Child Friendly Spaces" where anxiety-ridden children crapper spend instance with another children and endeavor patch existence supervised by answerable adults. The endeavor areas also enable parents to dedicate instance to finding accommodation, matter sources, locating another friends and kinsfolk and work.

EUXTV on YouTube, which handles dweller Union advise releases, declared in a recording named "EU to send Search & Rescue teams to Japan: Barroso" that dweller Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso declared primeval on Sat that the "EC has reactive its crisis salutation execution in order to coordinate dweller see & delivery teams which are existence dispatched to Nihon to care with the consequence of Friday's earthquake and tsunami." This also brings the dweller economic accord together with move efforts, feat to Nihon in teams to substance individualist support.

Facebook.com

Several "Japan Relief" users hit also ordered themselves up on Facebook asking for hold - gratify be careful who you provide your money to. There is no indorse that the majority of assets module modify up with the Asian people, so attain sure it's a honored charity.

Voice of America on Facebook has course to their website, www.voanews.com , where they're "live blogging" as events are occurring. They are asking for signaling from grouping on location in Japan. There's also a itemize of agencies (and their links) that are attractive donations in comfort efforts much as the dweller Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders and Mercy Corps.

Twitter.com

People are tweeting same disturbed on Twitter asking grouping to donate to charities same the Red Cross via texting. As donations are attractive place, those likewise are existence tweeted with messages of thanks to those who gave, same Sandra Bullock, who has presented $1 million of her possess money. Thank you Ms. Bullock!

Linkedin.com

There are several fund-raising events existence posted on LinkedIn by different organizations and ethnic groups. So clew up on linkedin.com and see where you crapper hold by participating in these events.

I also wish that these channels of ethnic outreach hold intend more grouping participating in creating cognisance and summoning hold for the Asian people.

Red Cross is asking that you donate $10 to comfort assets via book communication to REDCROSS at 90999. Contact the Consulate-General of Nihon in Los Angeles at http://www.la.us.emb-japan.go.jp/ for more information.


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