So that’s what Twitter’s good for: #KC4Haiti

Raysa Williams posted a warning on her Twitter page yesterday: “Just so my

followers know.. I’m gonna keep blasting haitirelief all day, I don’t

give $0.02 about any games 2day people need help there!!!“

True to her word, Williams’ next dozen Tweets urged people to stop by the ScionLab at 18th and Oak between 3 and 5:30 p.m. to drop off supplies desperately needed by victims of the massive earthquake that devastated Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince, last Tuesday.

Though the efforts at the Scion Lab were  organized on short notice, Kurt Kloeblen made sure there was nothing slapdash about it. Kloeblen is the managing web editor at KCTV 5, which raised $100,000 in a fund drive the previous Friday for Heart to Heart International, an Olathe-based nonprofit organization that delivers aid to disaster areas all over the world. Kloeblen told The Pitch that he’d wanted to do more, so earlier in the week, he’d reached out to his Twitter followers, asking who’d help him put together a grassroots, single-day donation center. There, people short on cash could still help by donating their time or smaller, practical items. Many of his Twitter connections were with people he’d never met face-to-face.