communication. community. cognition.
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.
click.php?id=27The 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.
[tags]Ike Pigott, Occam’s RazR, American Red Cross, Red Cross, disaster relief, communication, social media, Twitter, WordPress[/tags]
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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.
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I finally added a texting package to my cellphone. You are a bad influence.
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Kami – don’t shoot the messenger.
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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