The staff at Twitter created a site “Hope For Haiti Now” in order to aggregate the Twitter community’s response to the crisis, and provide nonprofits raising money via Twitter with helpful tips for maximizing their distribution.
Vanilla, a free forum tool, helps Haitian Families Reunite. A Haitian expat in Florida used Vanilla to immediately set up a forum for posting information about missing relatives in the local language. The story got to the news, thousands of people came to the site, and a few dozen families were reunited through the tool.
For more information about technology and Haiti, wired Magazine has set up this social network with tons of blog posts and other information about who is getting involved and how.

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