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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. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks.

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

NTEN

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project's Obesity Epidemic visualization. Let's look at another example of this in practice. By Kurt Voelker, CTO, Forum One Data is the new black. And for good reason.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. In co-creation, the value lies as much in the curated aggregate as in the individual contributions. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation. The Second C: Collaboration.

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

Forum One

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization. Let’s look at another example of this in practice. Data is the new black. And for good reason. Everything else is just noise.

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Data and Story Telling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

Forum One

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization. Let’s look at another example of this in practice. Data is the new black. And for good reason. Everything else is just noise.

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Screencast Treatment: Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Kaushik's thinking is based on " Occam's Razor Principle " (which boils down to a poetic way of saying " KISS ") The screencast will show some practical examples of how at least one nonprofit organization's web site, the Idealist , is using the software in practice. What follows is a very rough draft for a script.

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Google Homepage: Really, Really Simple Syndication

Museum 2.0

application I employ, it's also a powerful and graceful example of the potential of disaggregated content. For example, to add Museum 2.0 For example, here's a snapshot of my Google homepage. On the right, I have direct wikipedia search and feeds from several blogs. No more opening Wikipedia in a new tab.

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