CrisisCamps are independent, disbursed, volunteer efforts to develop lightweight technology solutions to help with disaster relief. CrisisCamps first emerged from a meeting in DC in 2009 in which several dozen local engineers, nonprofit executives, disaster coordinators, and public sector executives got together to brainstorm better, faster disaster coordination possibilities. At the 2009 NTEN conference session on cloud computing, we heard examples Lucy Bernholz, Blueprint R+D Once Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to

At the Arc of the US Convention in Albuquerque in 2009 you could count them on one hand. Verizon Support contacted me through Twitter to see if they could help. They have a staff person whose only job is to monitor social media sites like Twitter to help their customers – and this person had read my tweet. First, I want to acknowledge that there are now 83 Arc-related groups on Twitter . That’s impressive adoption of this emerging technology in the past 16 months.

In addition to the volunteers who signed up to help on the wiki, I directly solicited sixteen professionals in the field who I respect to provide feedback on particular chapters (or in some cases, on the entire draft). Content review (stealth). Readers' comments helped steer the book, even if these commenters never visited the book development wiki. This is the first of a four-part series on the behind-the-scenes experience of writing The Participatory Museum . This week, we'll look at the overview of the process of the creation of the book and some overall statistics for