Social Media & the Haiti Disaster: 'Twitter Helped Save Lives'
Doctors Without Borders communications director Jason Cone and NBC Today news anchor Ann Curry shared their experiences in trying to get planes carrying supplies and emergency personnel the clearance to land in Haiti after that country’s devastating earthquake during the Social Media & the Haiti Disaster panel at The New York Times Building in New York, part of Social Media Week 2010.
Curry had prior experience with the way humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders worked, and she took action after receiving tweets from Cone describing the frustrations of not being able to get the group’s planes to land.
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