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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks.

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are now 990 actively engaged Fellows— across the five focal countries of Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines—regularly participating in the Leadership Development for Mobilizing Reproductive Health network activities. You have to set an example and it only takes a few people to do that and it seeps into the group."

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Nonprofits Imagine a Better Sharing Economy

Tech Soup

Whether it’s AirBnB , the Sharing Cities Network or Car2Go , the range of sharing economy examples is reaching a tidal flood. We should be vigilant when companies with half-a-billion dollar valuations wrap social good initiatives in shiny, marketing wrappings and assume the language of urban planning. … They Like Cities.

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