February 24, 2010 6:30 PM - 60 attended
The Who-What-How: Impact of Community Technology and Crisis Camps
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Hello DC Media Makers!
Thanks for a wonderful, educational time at January's meetup (please find more bits on that below). And...
Please Save The Date: Wed, 2/24/10
The wave of effectiveness recently with CrisisCampHaiti - #ccHaiti on Twitter - is fascinating. From using technology in critical ways - to mobilizing a community of volunteers/programmers to put the tech in action - it's something we'd like to look at more closely together.
What you need for this meetup:
- a curiosity on how community technology is facilitating humanitarian relief
- Feel free checking out Crisis Commons for more context
Do I have to be uber tech savvy to join in the meetup's conversation?
Not at all. And if you'd rather observe vs directly engage, that's absolutely fine. The conversational goal here is realizing what worked with this multi-state, grass roots effort with CrisisCamps and community involvement. It's incredible and know you're welcome to join us.
Will chocolate snacks be involved?
Sure will.
Quick word and recap on our last meetup in January:
What an energizing way to launch 2010 for we media makers! Last week's meetup was fantastic and your enthusiastic interaction made it that way. Thanks Jen and everyone for coming out.
Twitter transcript and slides from Jen's photography tutorial
Just access the 'files' option in the left-most menu on our meetup group for the Twitter transcript. And enjoy her artistic, resourceful slides too.
Save these 2010 dates
DC Media Makers meetups this year:
Feb 24:
Community Tech and Crisis Commons - conversation starters tbd
March 24:
What I'm (finally) Doing with Video and Audio This Year - conversation starter: Dave Saunders
April 28:
tbd
May 26:
tbd
June 30:
tbd
July 28:
tbd
August 25:
tbd
September 22:
tbd
October, November, December:
data/conversation leads tbd
Past meetups for 2010
Jan 27:
Tech entrepreneur and photographer Jen Consalvo
(If you don't want to join Meetup.com to RSVP, you can email the assistant organizer, Sean Stickle (sean.stickle @ gmail.com) with your RSVP. Thanks!)
Image of Crisis Camp DC event by PZAO, Creative Commons.
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Najeema
This was a great meetup and I promised Jill a post. I did one on Social Media for Social good, which then prompted me to start a whole social media blog. Now, I'm going to follow thru on my promise by completing a second post specifically about Crisis camps and what I learned at this event. Ironically, the next Crisis camp took place the day of the Chile earthquake. What had been put in place for Haiti could be built upon. Good work all.
Posted April 28, 2010 at 12:23 PM
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JessicaTwo really interesting projects. I came in mostly interested in the crisis camp presentation, and was fascinated to hear about some of the incredible work that's been done for Haiti, but I ended up really enjoying the Why Tuesday presentation as well - I should have realized it's always fun and interesting to hear about cool projects. Definitely hope to make attending these meetups a regular thing.
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My brain is still swirling from all the ideas and energetic mojo from last night's meetup.
It was motivating to learn the process / results about Crisis Camp-Haiti plus videoblogging per 'Why Tuesday?'. Thx to everyone who came out - great time. And also thx to the Crisis Commons folks incl Noel. Andy - Congrats again on Crisis Camp DC and for inviting Jacob Soboroff! He was the ultimate 'surprise guest.' Whew...learned a lot.