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Technology Toolbox: Learn from Occupy Wall Street to Occupy YOUR Street

Amy Sample Ward

The revolution may not be televised, but no matter where you are, you can now have a front row seat to the broadcast. Over the past few years, the use of social technologies during disaster response has become a central component to news and information delivery. Online Homebase. One key element is the use of an online homebase.

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If we’d had Twitter on 9/11

Connection Cafe

It wasn’t yet my turn to drive, and I’d have been broadcasting observations all morning, with nothing better to contribute. I’d have taken a picture and figured out TwitPic. Could you illustrate your expertise & readiness regarding housing, nutrition, mobility, or animal care in the face of disaster?

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