{"id":10820,"date":"2010-01-13T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=10820"},"modified":"2010-01-13T16:20:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T23:20:57","slug":"using-social-media-to-help-in-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10820\/using-social-media-to-help-in-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Social Media to Help In Haiti&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn\u2019t going to put anything up on here, but a very gracious e-mail from Greg Swann encouraged me to lay out my experiences over the last 24 hours and how we can use social media not only to further our businesses but more importantly in dark times like this, we can use them to do good for those who are much less fortunate than us.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/InjuredChild.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>For the last 22 hours and 15 minutes (with the exception of a 2 1\/2 hour nap around 4:00 this morning,) I\u2019ve been using social media to help in Haiti. Let me explain:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As many of you know, my wife and I adopted our two youngest children from Haiti in the summer of 2004. We\u2019ve remained very involved with the orphanage that we adopted them from, <a href=\"http:\/\/glahaiti.org\" target=\"_blank\">God\u2019s Littlest Angels<\/a>, which is in Petionville Haiti.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019ve been on the board for the orphanage since 2006 and every year since 2003 (with the exception of 2005), at least one of our family has been back down there on a mission trip to help out. My 20 year old has decided to devote her life to third world medical missions, almost certainly in Haiti.<\/li>\n<li>Throughout those experiences, I\u2019ve developed a pretty extensive network of people around, literally, the world who have connections to Haiti. Most of those are Facebook Friends.<\/li>\n<li>In addition to that, I\u2019ve developed a pretty extensive network of online friends in the real estate and lending communities literally all across the country. If you consider Seattle to Miami to be all across the country, I think I\u2019ve got it covered.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yesterday, those two worlds met and it\u2019s been truly a mindblowing experience. Let me explain:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At 5:15 pm, I got a tweet across tweetdeck that was from @latimes (I use that as one of my news sources). It talked about a massive earthquake in Haiti, near Port Au Prince.<\/li>\n<li>I immediately hopped on AIM and talked to God\u2019s Littlest Angels stateside coordinator and confirmed that the orphanage was affected but that the damage appeared minor and everyone was safe.<\/li>\n<li>I then spent the next several hours e-mailing, facebooking, twittering and IM\u2019ng with people all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10820\/using-social-media-to-help-in-haiti\/#more-10820\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn\u2019t going to put anything up on here, but a very gracious e-mail from Greg Swann encouraged me to lay out my experiences over the last 24 hours and how we can use social media not only to further our businesses but more importantly in dark times like this, we can use them to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,29],"tags":[450,449,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-10820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-general","7":"category-group-therapy","8":"tag-earthquake-in-haiti","9":"tag-gods-littlest-angels","10":"tag-haiti","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4324,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/4324\/every-now-and-then\/","url_meta":{"origin":10820,"position":0},"title":"Every now and then&#8230;..","author":"Tom Vanderwell","date":"September 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Every now and then, I get one of those moments that puts life in a different perspective.\u00a0\u00a0 You know, the times when you look at all of the \"stuff\" that you deal with every day and realize that it's not nearly as important as you'd like to think it is?\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3335,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3335\/an-introduction-from-the-banking-pup\/","url_meta":{"origin":10820,"position":1},"title":"An introduction from the banking &#8220;Pup&#8221;","author":"Tom Vanderwell","date":"July 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi, First I want to thank all of you for making me feel so welcomed as one of the newest members of the Bloodhounds.\u00a0\u00a0 I've felt very welcomed and I appreciate that.\u00a0\u00a0 I've also learned a lot. 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