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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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Shovel-Ready Online Civic Projects #5: "Global Energy Observatory" Interactive Databases and Maps

Forum One

s focused on an important problem ? The GEO project is intended to collect and show data and geospatial information (on maps) of energy resources, generation, transmission, usage, and environmental impacts. GEO will eventually include data, and data on Google maps, for: 1. Global Energy Observatory ?

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Shovel-Ready Online Civic Project #5: "Global Energy Observatory" Interactive Databases and Maps

Forum One

s focused on an important problem ? The GEO project is intended to collect and show data and geospatial information (on maps) of energy resources, generation, transmission, usage, and environmental impacts. GEO will eventually include data, and data on Google maps, for: 1. Global Energy Observatory ?

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Join a Nonprofit Tech User Group This August

Tech Soup

Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. San Francisco, CA: Watch the Black Girls Code Documentary, Problem Solve w/ BGC, & Converse w/ SAP! The power of wikipedia to drive traffic to your nonprofit was the subject of Kate Bladow ’s recent event report from Baltimore. Tuesday, August 13.

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…Who Knows *What* About Me?! Four Tools that Show You How You’re Tracked Online

Tech Soup

In fact, we don’t see it at all, really, which is part of the problem. According to the brains of Wikipedia , digital footprints* are simply put “the trail of data that is left behind by users on digital services. Here’s what my map of visited sites plus third-party site contacts looks like: 3.

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The Future of Cloud Computing: 5 Startups to Watch from BoxWorks

Tech Soup

Capriza Zapps can also connect to things like barcode scanners, Google Maps, and other outside devices and services. It's a security cloud service that will address this problem: Most IT systems are fortressed. I envision a magical time when we'll all be our own little Wikipedias. via search to end-users. Everything.

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Which Social Networking Analysis Term Best Describes Virgin America?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.