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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Citizen-Powered Response.

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Reduce Travel with Online Collaboration

Tech Soup

I liked our 10 technology tips to help you reduce your need to travel, and also our travel reduction tools we compiled. All of the tools mentioned allow you to do things like store and share documents, calendars, project management schedules, and presentations online at no or low cost. Online Project Management Tools.

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Those whacky wikis

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

In our search for collaboration tools we've been looking at web sites that in one way or another make use of the wiki model - pages which are freely editable by a community of users. Probably the most dramatic wiki project is the wikiPedia - an online encyclopedia edited by -- the entire world.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

What tools do you already use, if any? What tools are you comfortable with? Should you support their use of existing tools, or create a new space? What are some possible tools? A wiki is a great low-cost solution if your community is comfortable with it technically. VolunteerMatch has taken advantage of this tool.

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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

With the entire network engaged, the leaders worked together to create a report to document the lessons they were learning from implementing leadership programs for reproductive health, through a new wiki. Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. tools can provide quick and dirty market research tools or the ability to do an environmental scans for strategic planning. Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool. Step 9: Wiki Wiki. An example?

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools! If you want to keep up with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), check out the wiki. The site was developed by Democracy in Action.