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[gizmorati]

Do-gooding team from Singapore gets acquired to form online volunteer network

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[theacademy]

Batkid did a lot more than save San Francisco. He brightened all of our lives by showing the innate goodness of the human spirit. Today the Make A Wish Foundation behind it all published these interesting facts: People who RSVP’d to volunteer via the Make A Wish website: 16,077 Estimated size of the crowd at City Hall: approximately 20,000 Number of #SFBatkid/#Batkid tweets generated (through Sunday 11/17): 545,576 % of all tweets coming from outside US: 13% Number of countries where Batkid was discussed: 117  % of all tweets that were deemed “positive”: 96% Total Twitter Potential Reach: 777,453,544 Total Twitter Potential Impressions: 1,816,783,718 Number of Instagram photos with #SFBatkid: 16,000 Total Instagram potential reach: 19.5 million Total Instagram potential impressions: 23.6 million Number of hits per second to all Make-A-Wish websites during peak: 1,400

[erikostrom]

Ethan Zuckerman: "At moments of crisis, mobile phones are critical sources and transmitters of information. They bring news out of war zones and to international audiences. They allow families who’ve fled violence to reconnect and avoid separation. In Ivory Coast, mobile phones and Twitter are turning into a network to help people communicate urgent humanitarian and medical needs, using the hashtag #civ2010.

"Here’s the problem: with violence in the streets of many cities in Ivory Coast, it’s really hard to go out and buy top-up cards for your phone. And since many people haven’t been to work – and since there’s been a currency crisis in the country – most don’t have the money to top up. Beheton’s solution: ask the mobile phone companies in Ivory Coast to offer free SMS during the crisis."

Contact information for the relevant phone company executives is provided.