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More than one-third of Facebook users in the US, UK and Australia have donated money and/or goods to relief efforts aimed at the January 12, 2010 earthquake which struck Haiti, according to a joint survey conducted by Facebook and The Nielsen Company.

By Kate Ausburn

On Tuesday January 12th, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake devastated the Caribbean nation of Haiti. The earthquake has destroyed the nations capital of Port-au-Prince including the Parliament building, the United Nations national headquarters, the hospital, the prison and many homes and businesses. Tens of thousands are dead and millions displaced in an event that United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has described as the worst humanitarian crisis in decades.

Photo by IFRC.

The United Nations, who lost 46 staff members in the earthquake and have hundreds more still missing, are …

A few weeks ago, we told you about the 2009 eNonprofits Benchmarks Study, which allows you to compare the effectiveness of your e-mail campaigns to that of other nonprofits. Today, M+R released its 2010 Nonprofit Social Media Benchmarks Study, reporting the effectiveness of nonprofits’ Facebook and Twitter efforts. In a conference call today, they discussed some of the highlights.

via guardian.co.uk
The Guardian Tech Weekly podcast team, discusses how the digitalworld has responded to the Haiti Earthquake. Five Minute spot, begins at 15:19 mins in.

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

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?

Copenhagen is almost here and the news will be fast and furious. News organizations and climate campaigners have created hub sites, power rankings and Facebook fan pages to help you keep track of the UN Climate Conference mayhem.