Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 19, 2011
The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. I will explain the use of mapping, fundraising, and crowdsourcing.
Forum One
MARCH 25, 2009
The GEO project is intended to collect and show data and geospatial information (on maps) of energy resources, generation, transmission, usage, and environmental impacts. GEO will eventually include data, and data on Google maps, for: 1. Again - the GEO site is here: [link].
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Forum One
MARCH 25, 2009
The GEO project is intended to collect and show data and geospatial information (on maps) of energy resources, generation, transmission, usage, and environmental impacts. GEO will eventually include data, and data on Google maps, for: 1. Again - the GEO site is here: [link].
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 22, 2009
On the day of the 2008 US elections, the Obama campaign was able to assign trimmed down telecalling lists to volunteers by ticking off the names of the people who had already voted. My Barack Obama leverage some aspects of Collective Intelligence during the 2008 presidential campaign. What About You?
Care2
SEPTEMBER 14, 2007
Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.
Care2
NOVEMBER 16, 2006
Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.
Museum 2.0
APRIL 18, 2008
Museums and the Web 2008 guest blogger Bryan Kennedy here. Want to plot all the Wal-Marts on a map over time ? Efforts like Freebase , which hopes to be the wikipedia for data, are giving communities the ability to collaboratively share data. You don't need Wal-Mart's permission, just an API and a source for the data.
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