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Vote for Your CNN Hero: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Impact

Have Fun - Do Good

Liz McCartney "Dedicated to helping Hurricane Katrina survivors in St. I've included part of the nominees' profiles below, as they are written up on the site, but added links to their organizations and projects where I could find them. Anne Mahlum "Used to run by homeless men each morning. Bernard Parish, a community just outside New Orleans.

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Katrina IT Musings

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

She did a lot of work on the hurricane aftermath (she's an expert on hazardous waste, and a gazillion other things). I thought her comments would be worth posting. Any IT setup has to be distributed as we saw so many single point data sources taken out by Hurricane Katrina, with no alternate location for getting same data stream.

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