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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. Online social networking was just being born. Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. Social Networking Web 2.0 Tools social media Twitter NetSquared'

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

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. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks.

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