All posts in the topic New Media and Floods
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- Latest post made by Kristin Larsen at 2009 Mar 23 22:33 UTC
A blog about the flooding: http://www.areavoices.com/springflood/ Also, Floods on facebook http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/news_cut/archive/2009/03/facebooks_flood_fighters.shtml?refid=0 Does anyone know of groups in MN that are using new media or web2.0ish tools to organize volunteers? I am trying to figure out if I should head out someplace to help sandbag (we strong young men have to pitch in before we cripple ourselves doing stupid things) but I have not idea where I would go or where I would stay. Christopher Mitchell Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative Institute for Local Self-Reliance http://www.newrules.org/info/ 612-379-3815 x209
Here in Duluth, community blog Perfect Duluth Day would be the place; also, in the past year a kind of core activist/artist population has all gone on Facebook, so Facebook calls would work here. You could search for a "Fargo Flood" Facebook page. Here, when people want to publicize an entity or an event they create a Facebook page for it. On 3/23/09 1:38 PM, "Christopher Mitchell" <email obscured>> wrote: > A blog about the flooding: > http://www.areavoices.com/springflood/ > > Also, > Floods on facebook > http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/news_cut/archive/
I just blogged on this! The Red Cross has an Online Disaster News Portal (http://newsroom.redcross.org/) that you can subscribe to: http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=RedCrossOnlineNewsroom Right now there's lots of coverage on the Red River flooding.
I don't know of any agency that is seeking untrained volunteers. Most of the volunteer agencies use volunteers that have been registered with them and trained for specific functions. However, there is an organization that might be able to answer specific information on volunteers for sandbagging etc. The organization is VOAD (Volunteer Organizations Assisting Disasters). This year's President is Seth Gardner. I have copied him on this request. I assume Seth is not a member of MNvoices. So he wouldn't be able to respond to everyone. He can respond to me or Chris using the e-mail addresses in the e-mail. Seth. Can you provide any information on who volunteers should contact to sandbag, and housing? Mike Fratto Payne Phalen Please help those who don't get enough to eat. http://oyh.org http://hungersolutions.org The future depends more on what we do between now and then Than what we did in the past.
Just as we did with the I-35 bridge collapse - http://pages.e-democracy.org/35W - , people can feel free to use the E-Democracy.Org Wiki as a distributed and open directory of links to user-generated stuff: http://pages.e-democracy.org/Red_River_Flood - Please take it away!!! Let's start one trend, use the #flood09 hashtag on Twitter which seems to have momentum - http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23flood09 - and #fargoflood ... #citynameflood for area specific channels. Steven Clift E-Democracy.Org
Thank you for all the great information! West Central Initiative serves communities in the Red River valley. I'm able to update our foundation's blog with a lot of useful links: http://www.wcif.org/members/blog_view.asp?id=282144&post=62505
Progressive Action is the biggest online group in Duluth I know of. http://www.prog-action.org/index.html Kristin Ann Klefstad wrote: > Here in Duluth, community blog Perfect Duluth Day would be the place; also, > in the past year a kind of core activist/artist population has all gone on > Facebook, so Facebook calls would work here. You could search for a "Fargo > Flood" Facebook page. Here, when people want to publicize an entity or an > event they create a Facebook page for it. > > > On 3/23/09 1:38 PM, "Christopher Mitchell" <email obscured>> wrote: > > >> A blog about the flooding: >> http://www.areavoices.com/springflood/ >> >> Also, >> Floods on facebook >> http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/news_cut/archive/
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