More on my pet project
I’ve still been plugging away in my quest to bring online tools and social media to the realm of disaster relief.
Here is a message I recently posted on the Red Cross Online Disaster Portal - which is being hosted at Wordpress.com for the time being.
The links there roll back to my webspace - partly because you can’t upload mp3’s directly to Wordpress.com - and partly because I am using a php-based link tracker to follow the downloads.
The other piece of this project is still in Beta. (I’ve been waiting to say that for a while, heh heh…) The Red Cross Twitter channel is open. We’ll push that out in selected trials for evacuations and such, but we want to limit the traffic at first. We don’t want to establish it as a primary channel until we’re sure the traffic volume won’t crash Twitter.
The idea is that people in evacuation zones could “follow” the Red Cross Twitter feed from their cell phones, and find out about shelter locations and service delivery sites.
Please let me know what you think - or if you’d like to help us test some of this stuff.
Technorati Tags: Ike Pigott, Occam’s RazR, American Red Cross, Red Cross, disaster relief, communication, social media, Twitter, Wordpress
That’s a phenominal idea, Ike! Are you looking for just folks in ‘Bama, or all over?
Link | June 16th, 2007 at 9:56 am
The cool thing about this project is you can do it from anywhere.
Those with blogging experience and willing to spend some time to learn about Red Cross are encouraged to hit me at the e-mail above.
Link | June 16th, 2007 at 10:51 am
I finally added a texting package to my cellphone. You are a bad influence.
Link | June 18th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
Kami - don’t shoot the messenger.
Link | June 19th, 2007 at 9:07 am
The Birthplace of the Process of Illogical Logic wrote,
Red Cross puts social networking and online tools to good use…
I’d like to introduce you guys to someone: Ike Pigott. He’s a local blogger that I ran across on Twitter some time ago. I’ve been following his blog, Occam’s RazR, for a while now. He works for Red Cross and has an extensive back…
Link | June 19th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
beforeyoukillyourcomputer.com wrote,
Red Cross puts social networking and online tools to good use…
I’d like to introduce someone: Ike Pigott. He’s a local blogger that I ran across on Twitter some time ago. I’ve been following his blog, Occam’s RazR, for a while now. He works for Red Cross and has an extensive background in co…
Link | June 19th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
Katastrophenkommunikation: Rotes Kreuz setzt auf Twitter und Blogs « Das Textdepot wrote,
[...] Kommunikation bei Evakuierungen zu unterstützen. Der Initiator, Ike Pigott, beschreibt die Idee so: ”The idea is that people in evacuation zones could “follow” the Red Cross Twitter feed [...]
Link | June 27th, 2007 at 1:49 am
Hi Ike,
I think your idea to provide radiostations with mp3-files is quite practical. I tried the same at Austrian Red Cross in the last two years and had quite good critics from the collegues at the radiostations. You will find a listz of these audiosnips at my blog (in German, off course).
Best regards from Vienna,
Gerald Czech
Link | July 23rd, 2007 at 3:26 pm
RazRchive » Bust wrote,
[...] was looking forward to sharing many of the projects we’ve been working on at the BlogOrlando conference, but my participation is [...]
Link | August 2nd, 2007 at 9:05 am