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"Then, if the crap does hit the fan, maybe – just maybe – they'll like you enough not to tweet about your stupid CEO or your dumb-ass promotion or whatever. And hey, if they really love you, they might – just might – stick up for you. Now, that's a key measure of success in the online world (and offline too)!"
Link courtesy of @susanlambe
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Twitter posts appeared within seconds of the quake, while photos emerged on Twitpic and Flickr almost instantaneously. Videos soon appeared on YouTube. Text message donations flooded charities in Canada. Messages of condolences were everywhere on the Internet. From concrete relief efforts to gestures of sympathy, the world is reacting through the new social means of global communications. This is despite the fact that only 10 per cent of Haiti's 9 million have access to the Internet.
Port-au-Prince Salvation Army director Bob Poff has been using Facebook and Skype to communicate with teams on the ground, and back in the US. While some may have had their religious faith shaken by the quake, Poff wrote: "Thank God for Facebook."
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