communication. community. cognition.
“I’ve been everywhere, man.”
– Johnny Cash
There are times that I just don’t know how to count.
My little Feedburner counter says there are some 61 people or so who care enough about what I have to say that they want it pushed to them. (Or they care so little about it they don’t want to expend the energy to come here to see it.)
Yet, when I look at where these readers are, and how they get here, it’s a little mind-boggling: [Read more...]
I’d like to thank all of you, my loyal readers, for making this possible:
I know it’s really all downhill from here, but when I launched this humble online thinkspace in January, I never dreamed I would have become the #1 blog in the world!
Of course, I share that #1 billing with some pretty fine company: [Read more...]
Here I sit, in Orlando, taking part in a Red Cross communications session. It may be my last visit for awhile.
I was looking forward to sharing many of the projects we’ve been working on at the BlogOrlando conference, but my participation is looking rather shaky for now. I’m leaving up the badge for now, but given the uncertainty of the Atlantic hurricane season, and the certainty of a tighter travel budget, I don’t want to make any promises.
Let’s root for the unexpected, and see if I can find my way somehow.
[tags]Ike Pigott, Occam’s RazR, BlogOrlando[/tags]
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.
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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.
[tags]Ike Pigott, Occam’s RazR, American Red Cross, Red Cross, disaster relief, communication, social media, Twitter, WordPress[/tags]
