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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

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. What’s so important or interesting about this? Indirect Content.

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

NTEN

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. By Kurt Voelker, CTO, Forum One Data is the new black.

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

Forum One

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. Data is the new black. And for good reason.

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Data and Story Telling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

Forum One

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. Data is the new black. And for good reason.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

public information??? Steve Anderson continues his series on donation process maps. Social Explorer Maps - interactive Census maps! Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! A wiki filled with information and presentations about Second Life in Higher Education. For me, the web and 2.0 and asking for ideas.

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Guest Post from Museums and the Web: Bryan Kennedy

Museum 2.0

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. By submitting Freedom of Information Requests he was able to get listings of several major UK museum collections.

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Screencast Treatment: Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you're curious about Occam's Razor, here's a more detailed description or see the simplicity page in wikipedia. To understand how to identify actionable reports from the complex sea of information collected in an analytics tool. How does the information from Google Analtyics inform your decision-making re: web site campaign?