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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. 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. Twitter as a news breaker.

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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. The only effective feedback mechanism was the free market: people choose to buy something else, if the option existed.

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The Public Doesn't Need to Know What Gov 2.0 is, But They Do Need.

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There have been a multitude of new policies , conferences , guidelines , platforms , and even awards for things related to something called Government 2.0 We suggested aggregating highly valuable content into a mobile app. We suggested aggregating highly valuable content into a mobile app. and Open Government. A “Gov 2.0

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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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