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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. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. Citizen-Powered Response. Direct Content.

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Hackers Explore New Territories for Cracking Your Password

Tech Soup

Ars Technica reports that hackers are expanding their password cracking frontiers into Wikipedia, YouTube, song lyrics, and other works of literature or writing. It's a quote in a fictional language from the H.P. Lovecraft story "The Call of Cthulu" and it is noted in a Wikipedia entry. solutions page.'

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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

. Yesterday at the Packard Foundation, as part of a series of "deeper dives" to learn about networks and social media, Eugene Eric Kim of Blue Oxen Associates gave a talk about "Networks in an International Context." . Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line.

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Screencast Treatment: Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Scope: This screencast will demystify web analytics and use Author and Analytics Evangelist Avinash Kaushik's mantra of simplicity to illustrate some of the useful features and reports in Google Analytics , a free but powerful web analytics software tool. Learning Goals. To understand the definition web analytics. You won't be able to think.

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New Models for Children's Museums: Wired Classrooms?

Museum 2.0

They were ahead of the museum curve, using language like "participatory learning environment" (Brooklyn Children's Museum, 1977) that is still thick in the mouths of contemporary museum directors in other fields. They look to their own tools, and by extension, to their own abilities to learn.