Thursday, October 25, 2007

crisis readings for 11/1

Sadly, we have another real case study to examine as we look at how social media can be used in a crisis as the California wildfires rage on in SoCal.

Please read the following to prepare for class on 11/1:
The Voce link is more of a resource - click around & see for yourself how Flickr, Twitter et al are being used.

2 comments:

k said...

Related but not required reading, Kami posts several more SM uses like Red Cross following fire bloggers through del.icio.us: http://overtonecomm.blogspot.com/2007/10/red-cross-uses-social-media-tools-to.html

Let's be sure to look at these in class on Nov. 1.

k said...

Here is another related not required piece we should talk about:

Wired: "Everyone should use Twitter in a crisis": http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/in-disasters-ev.html