article thumbnail

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

Disaster 206
article thumbnail

Reduce Travel with Online Collaboration

Tech Soup

This software as a service model of computing has the added environmental and budgetary benefit of needing a less robust computer system, servers, and installed software to host these applications. collaborative work online and hosted by Google or Yahoo, TechSoup has. The most famous wiki is of course Wikipedia.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Google Powered Nonprofit Office Here's a few how-to articles about how to use google applications for your domain or how to become the on demand nonprofit. Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! Miles Maier has been blogging about his Web Office experiment for the past month or so. Perfect Password generator.

article thumbnail

10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2 You can create an RSS feed that would work 24/7 and bring any news to your desktop from Google News or Yahoo News. The power of Web2.0

Remix 50
article thumbnail

Google Homepage: Really, Really Simple Syndication

Museum 2.0

application I employ, it's also a powerful and graceful example of the potential of disaggregated content. On the right, I have direct wikipedia search and feeds from several blogs. No more opening Wikipedia in a new tab. There are many web-based optimizers that just give you more reasons to screw around. So what is it?

Google 20