To support disaster relief efforts after this morning’s magnitude-8.8 earthquake in Chile, the Mobile Giving Foundation has announced the following text donation campaigns:
Text the word “CHILE” to 25383 to donate $10 (Habitat for Humanity)
Text the word “CHILE” to 20222 to donate $10 (World Vision)
Text the word “CHILE” to 52000 to donate $10 (Salvation Army)
Text the word “YOUTH” to 20222 to donate $10 (UNICEF)
100% of your donation goes to the recipient charity, and the donation appears as a charge on your carrier bill, standard rates may apply. Additional campaigns will be announced here.
Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/todosnuestrosmuertos/
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pluyckx
Update: AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless are providing free text messages for these campaigns.
Mar 1st, 2010
Greg Rasa
Social media were also used as a tool to alert Hawaiians about the tsunami warning following the Chilean quake. (Of course, tweets probably still don’t have the bone-chilling effect of those air-raid-type tsunami warning sirens!) …
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2011226386_apustsunamisocialnetworking.html
Mar 1st, 2010
mqjeffrey13
I was actually surprised when I realized that Twitter had broken the news of the Chile earthquake before the New York Times’ text-ed me about it 15 minutes later. It was very eye-opening…
Mar 1st, 2010
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