Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Indirect Content. Now for indirect content or Mash-ups.

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Disaster Social Media Haiti Media 206

Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Vivek Kundra, Chief Technical Officer, for the District of Columbia, discussed the District’s radical transformation a model of the to the digital public sphere model. The rise of data aggregation and collections has spurred tremendous collaborative interactions among people. For Kundra, old paper records had to be digitized.

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District of Columbia Management API DC 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

I've been retweeting a lot of these links, but I also like to look for patterns and the best way to do that is aggregate them in a single blog post. So, here's a few samplings from my digital buffet. September is Preparedness Month: We know that September is usually a bad month for hurricanes and other natural disasters.

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Nptech Social Media Ning Media 91