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Key Questions regarding Social Media
To generate awareness, create a connection between Team Rubicon and its followers,
and drive fundraising/in-kind donations/support actions.
What experience should people have interacting with Team Rubicon online?
These guys are making a serious impact by doing things “their way” and need all the help
they can get to overcome bureaucracy and inefficient processes.
This is a “new model” in disaster response that is exciting, effective, and transparent.
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Types of Social Media Interaction
Be overtly proactive during a crisis, and then use a blend of proactive engagement and
reactive reception during other communication timeframes. Make sure not to “fatigue” the
followers by being aware of their interest capacity during the different timeframes. Perhaps
find a way to “adjust” each individual’s outreach.
Passive
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Four Primary Communication Timeframes - Definitions
During
Before
• Begins with the disaster
• Calm period between • Continues during all TR
disasters field operations
• There is limited media • Finishes at country
coverage of disaster departure
recovery
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Four Primary Communication Timeframes – Turning Points
Disaster Occurs
Before During
Team Rubicon
Departs
• What are the primary tactics and tools during this time?
Tactics
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Before a disaster
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During a Team Rubicon response
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Impact during a disaster
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After the team departs
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After the disaster stabilizes
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Social Media Tools
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Your current social media tools
- Blog on website
- Flickr
- YouTube
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Using Posterous to instantly update your blog
- Email Posterous and they will post a formatted version instantly to your blog
- They will re-size photos for you and create an image gallery on your blog
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A new, updated blog
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iPhone application will keep followers up-to-date wherever they are
- AppMakr
- $299
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Fundraising
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Overview
Registry Campaigns
Text Messaging
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Rubicon Donation Website
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Off Cycle Messaging
A gift of any size to the American Red Cross will save the day when the next emergency
strikes. When a neighbor’s house burns down. When someone needs lifesaving blood
transfusion. When a family needs to contact a deployed service member in an
emergency. When a child needs a hug and a blanket. The gift that saves the day is the
gift you give today. Your gift supports the lifesaving mission of the American Red Cross
down the street, across the country and around the world.
World Vision
In the wake of a crisis, it is children who suffer most. World Vision stands ready to protect
them by delivering crucial assistance within 24 to 72 hours of a disaster. When Chile was
struck by the 8.8 magnitude earthquake, World Vision was able to begin an immediate
response. Your gift to World Vision's Disaster Response Fund will help us prepare for and
respond to disasters around the world. World Vision urgently needs your support to help
children and families suffering from disasters around the world, including earthquake
survivors in Chile and Haiti. Your donation of any size will help us rush life-saving
emergency supplies like food, water, blankets, and shelter to those who need it most. We
are often one of the first organizations to begin relief work after a disaster, and we remain
on the ground for the long haul, rebuilding communities and restoring hope.
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Off Cycle Messaging
Although our efforts in Haiti and Chile have ceased, your your gift today
will help Team Rubicon quickly equip and supply rapidly deployable teams
to help those in need when the world’s next catastrophe strikes. When
Chile was struck by the 8.8 magnitude earthquake, Team Rubicon was
able to….. Your gift supports our lifesaving work around the world and will
help save lives.
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Basic Grant Strategy
Grant/Foundation Money:
Difficult difficult to get grants to have cash on hand for future or current disasters
In-Kind Support
Come up with list of resources you need/use during disaster relief
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Basic Grant Strategy
Prospect:
KEY: Building relationships
Ask board members and other volunteers for their connections
Subscribe to Foundation Center ($19.95/month) to begin searching for foundation
giving (736 hits from grantees interested in “Disasters”).
Identify “competitors” in space and look at annual reports to identify prospective
fundraising sources
Watch Outs
Don’t apply for money that requires you to create extensive new programming or
that comes with extensive and cumbersome reporting
Future Resources
We will provide development contacts at SAGE and NCLR
Foundation Center Classes
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Prospects
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Online Registry Campaigns
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Text Message Fundraising: Cons Outweigh Pros
Pros Cons
• Easy Transaction for Donor • Must be Vetted and 501 (c) 3
• Capitalize on Large Profile Events • Large Setup Fees ($3k-$10k)
• Incorporate into Advertising/Media • Short Code (e.g. “Haiti”) Fee
Campaigns • $500,000 Minimum Revenue
• Donation Capped at $10
• Can’t Access Donors Contact Info
• Lag in Revenues (30 - 90 Days)
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Other Fundraising Ideas
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Tactical and Other Considerations
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TEAM RUBICON COMMUNICATIONS
GEAR
Objective: Find and utilize communications gear with voice
and data standards that pertain to real-time situational
information exchange and reports by and for Team Rubicon
before, during, and after response.
World Internet
Coverage Map
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COMMUNICATIONS GEAR
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COMMUNICATIONS GEAR, Part II
M4 / GLOBAL AREA NETWORK
• Provides access to telephone networks
• Allows data transfer through an ISDN connection
from 64 to 128 kbps
• Can transfer large files, animated or still images,
video-conferencing, good quality audio, etc.
• MPDS connection (Mobile Packet Data Service)
which allows a permanent internet connection.
MOBILE ‘VISIO EMERGENCY’ System
• Allows satellite transmission of live videos filmed directly at the heart of
an emergency
• Allows a real-time visual assessment of the situation in the field that can
be transmitted to the NGOs’ or rescue organizations’ crisis centers or
headquarters on the other side of the world.
• At any time, recipients can communicate directly with the TSF technician
to ask for more visual information (such as scenic views
or close-ups).
• Gives rescue organizations the means to adapt their action to specific
needs.
• Images sent to the recipients’ headquarters can also be used to
stimulate international opinion and for fund-raising.
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OTHER FIELD COMMS GEAR POSSIBILITIES
Portable Satlite Communications
- Airbox CM3
AllTech Comms
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COMMS COORDINATION
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FINAL: OTHER CONSIDERATIONS, Part I
International SOS Partnership
- San Francisco based emergency aid logistics consultancy (Lynn Fritz previously owned a $450 M logistics company sold to UPS.)
- SAR, Med, Telecom units transmit via IFRC base camps (later-stage use)
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OTHER CONSIDERATIONS, Part II
Media Articles Editor Responses
- TR partner with Virgin (airline advertiser flyers), Red Bull, Bono’s One Organization weekly
radio message.
Team Rubicon hold “extreme disaster relief team” media covered training/real events
- GPS position/map on front page of website (updated every hour) – blinking icon
- Front-page of website (or command and control center tab) gives viewer/donator “mission
commander-like feeling.”
- Link to operator “head cameras” strategically placed at the scene on the ground
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OTHER CONSIDERATIONS, Part III
MapAction.com
- NGO / service that combines scouting and data from UN, Google, Sat imagery. Up to
minute maps of disaster relief areas damage and identifies those needing most help
Apple Podcasts
- Promote and push out weekly message from Jake, William, or Drew
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Questions?
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