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Tips for Disaster Relief Bloggers

Have Fun - Do Good

They also set up a wiki. People wanted to see how her town looked before, as well as after the hurricane. If you want to help, you can make a difference. She called blogs, wikis and Skype/VoIP, “technology with heart,” tools that allow people to help one another and to, “give real information, in real time, with real voices.”

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. There were also many sites so a searcher would have to go through several and sort through the many different search protocols and syntax. http ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 7_July_2005_London_bombings. http ://www.noula.ht/index.

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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

NTEN

" Macon Phillips, special assistant to the President and director of new media for the White House, was a volunteer during Hurricane Katrina. In the five years since Hurricane Katrina, social media has exploded, and its potential for use in crises was clear after the Haiti earthquake. One person can post a message.

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Tech Policies for Virtual Teams: A Leader’s Responsibility

Non Profit Quarterly

And I’ll actually reiterate what you said about the different levels, because this rolling out of tech policies and thinking through them and really trying to implement them wisely really works at every level. And they’re different things, but they’re so interrelated that we’re going to touch on those throughout. So that’s great.

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Steve Bridger

Maybe a section on this blog, or a wiki, pulling the idea together[?] I don’t think I have a ‘5 a day’ – maybe I should but just seems a bit unrealistic and maybe even a bit boring – although maybe I could get round that by having 5 different things every day?! Nudge me again soon. Same with my wife, 3.

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