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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

SocialFish

Patrick Meier is a director of crisis mapping at Ushahidi, which is a platform that unifies data gathered from multiple sources (SMS, e-mail, web) and distributes it onto a visual map or timeline. In the five years since Hurricane Katrina, social media has exploded, and its potential for use in crises was clear after the Haiti earthquake.

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Five Benefits to Using Twitter Â? Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

When email is unavailable, there’s almost always SMS. As an example, I followed two major news aggregators for awhile, but the updates were just too frequent for my needs. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Last week, when I went to Seattle, I was in a timezone that put my family three hours ahead of me. Your mileage may vary.

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The reason is that people didn’t have aggregate power: they were individual voices that a news channel or a company can choose to ignore. People will share content on mobile devices through IR/SMS/email. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. All this took a few weeks, a time scale we’ve never seen before.

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Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007 » Techipedia | Tamar.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Definitive List of Video Aggregator Sites (SEO Space): There are a lot of video sites beyond YouTube. Ultimate Local Search Optimization Resources (Web Analytics World): Manoj Jasra aggregates a bunch of websites and provides resources which should help anyone in the area of local optimization. Jody Nimetz lists them out for you.

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6 Ways to Filter Your RSS Feeds - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

And since we first covered it in April of 2006 it has gone completely free. When we first reviewed 2or3things Blastfeed in late 2006 it appeared to be shaping up as a good consumer filtering alternative to Feed Rinse. ZapTXT also powers email, IM, and SMS alerts for sites like TheStreet.com. not via an RSS reader).

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