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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. Direct Content. What’s so important or interesting about this?

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Mark Pesce at CUA09 - Think Like a Cloud, Make a Storm, Kill the Tower!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The audio is fading a bit, so I've been thinking about what Mark wrote in his essay, " Sharing Power (Aussie Rules)" I read the essay three times, I mind mapped it, and have been noodling on it for an hour or two. The same sort of engine which powers Wikipedia can be put to work across a number of different “platforms”.

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