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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

I’m joining a panel to talk about the response for support after the Haiti earthquakes last year. The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Examples from Haiti. Indirect Content. Now for indirect content or Mash-ups.

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Ushahidi Wins MacArthur Award: Changing the World One Map at a Time

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Following the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 and the tsumani in Japan in 2011, the Ushahidi platform was used to organize emergency responses in real-time.

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A Few of Your Favorite Things (Best of "Things We Like" 2010)

NTEN

Read more posts on our blog. No, these are the links you clicked the most in 2010 -- and after a long and productive year, you deserve, at the very least, some Star Wars cupcakes. The annual roundup of the most clicked items from "Things We Like". We could have sworn "Kitteh Roulette" would be the last cat video site you'd ever need.

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A Few of Your Favorite Things (Best of "Things We Like" 2010)

NTEN

Read more posts on our blog. No, these are the links you clicked the most in 2010 -- and after a long and productive year, you deserve, at the very least, some Star Wars cupcakes. The annual roundup of the most clicked items from "Things We Like". We could have sworn "Kitteh Roulette" would be the last cat video site you'd ever need.

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Great reads from around the web on January 15th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Submissions close January 22, 2010." Digital Media and Learning Competition: Applications now open! Thanks for all that you are doing, ARC!

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How Effective was Crisis Mapping During the 2011 Japan Earthquake? | TechPresident

AFP Blog

How Effective was Crisis Mapping During the 2011 Japan Earthquake? TechPresident : Compared to similar efforts put to use in the 2010 Haiti earthquake, not as consistently.

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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

Tech Soup

The January 12, 2010 catastrophic earthquake in Haiti showed some of the astonishing potential for volunteer-based digital disaster relief. At the time of the Haiti earthquake, very few people in the country were using Twitter, but it was enough to get news of needs out to the world. For others it was not so clear.