Future:Media:Change

Type “Haiti” into Twitter, Facebook or Youtube and you soon encounter a message from @redcross sent at 05:38 GMT on Jan 13.
In less than 48 hours, the American Red Cross had received more than $35m in donations – including $8m directly from texts.
“This breaks all world records for a mobile giving campaign,” says their spokeswoman, Gloria Huang.
“It’s been incredible. People have donated more to Haiti than to Hurricane Katrina or the tsunami in Asia.
“And Twitter has played an extremely significant part.”

via news.bbc.co.uk

I ran across a new app for democracy today and thought it was time to share some of my favorites so far.

In a world of far too many social media tools and not enough resources, FourSquare the popular geo location social network/game/craze has tested their own fund raising component to the service. Is this something that nonprofits need to keep on their radar? Do you need to hire a foursquare intern now?

Twitter is a powerful real-time information tool but sometimes the enormity tweets can be daunting. What if you only want to find out what your followers and talking about? Enter FlockingME. The handy little free TwitterTool allows you to search your friends tweets, see where they are from, and even see trending topics.

While many corporations are using the phrase ‘going green’ as a marketing tool, your non profit can actually help save the environment by changing simple aspects of your web site.

Need a free way of creating a quick iPhone app? There’s a site for that.

SynchTube allows you to watch YouTube videos with a selected group in real-time.