Are you a geek who wants to help post-Katrina?
Staci on Trust but Verify passes along a suggestion from someone trying to reconnect with family post Katrina. Here is the idea: Trust But Verify: Hurricane Katrina: What Can We Do?: "Taking Philip's idea beyond Google alone, what if the sites making a push in local search applied some of those resources to New Orleans and other ares battered by the hurricane? Instead of pointing to restaurants and business that no longer exist, provide zip-code information centers incorporating data, maps and photos from FEMA, the Corps of Engineers and other resources. Create spaces for people to meet online -- and publicize it. Create an uber-directory that pulls it all -- volunteer efforts and professional -- in one place. Work together to span sites and portals.
I don't know anyone at Google nor am I a geek, but I figure if enough of us spread ideas on our blogs, someone with the smarts and resources to respond will be reached.
Being local is easy when it's about the best place for dinner. Helping communities recover from disaster, now there's a test."
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posted by Nancy White at 12:30 PM
2 Comments:
Nancy, I'm practically verklempt reading this. I literally had a message in the works to you and then I saw this. It's exactly what I hoped people would do. Thanks so much.
We're starting a wiki over at OJR so if you see any links you think should be included please add them. Also, I'm adding Katrina links in my link blog with a lot of Katrina links.
A lot of people and organizations are collecting material -- I'm sttill hoping we'll find a meta-solution.
Staci, I'm also collecting links inside of the Virtual Community Conference of the http://www.well.com - hoping others will help collect. I'll point them towards the wiki to keep adding pages.
Grace at Dr. Laura's Nightmare has some good commentary about bloggers and how we can be of use. Dina Meta is another great source on this after her tsunami experience.
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