Disaster Relief 2.0
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- Disaster relief 2.0 How the social web lent a helping hand during the hurricane season of 2008 http://deannazandt.com
- A quiet Saturday night
- Tools we used
- NING
- NING
- Quickly collect people and information via:
- Forums
- Task assignment
- Discussion
- Breaking news (internally)
- Blogs
- Breaking news (externally)
- RSS aggregators
- WIKI
- WIKI
- Static information @ www.hurricanewiki.org
- Shelters
- Donations / volunteering
- Where to get more info
- Two others started and abandoned
- Ported info over from KatrinaWiki.info
- TWITTER
- Calls for volunteers
- Engineered Twitter storm alerts from government sources
- Created an “I’m okay” alert system (which we later abandoned)
- Engineered Twitter news alerts about the storm
- ADD’L TOOLS
- SMS to RSS
- Aggregated maps
- Radio scanning
- So what happened?
- Approx. 350 volunteers within the first 24 hours
- Approx. 700 volunteers total
- Expanded to cover entire hurricane season
- Significant traffic to NING and wiki
- Significant media coverage
- Looking back −− and forward
- We don’t have to reinvent the wheel each time
- Leadership matters
- Spheres of influence matter
- Balance of structure within the group itself matters
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