Attention Fellow Bloggers: Tagging for Katrina
After a quick Skype chat last night with Staci looking for some tagging savvy, I sent email to Alex and a few others of our tech/friend circle. By 2am this morning, Alexandra had responded with this great piece on Tagging for Katrina"The Internet is a crucial tool for people helping in the Katrina recovery, and for Katrina survivors looking for loved ones, food, shelter or other assistance. As the online community has joined the recovery effort, the explosion of online resources has made it harder and harder for people to find what they are looking for.
SHARE this information with every blogger blogging about Katrina!
Tags can help to organize the wealth of online Katrina information so that survivors and supporters can work together more effectively and more quickly. For example, Andy Carvin has set up a Katrina blog that uses the tag hurricanekatrina to pull photos from Flickr.
Here’s a quick guide to how your web site or blog can use tags to make information more accessible, and on how tags can help people find the information they need."
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posted by Nancy White at 8:21 AM
1 Comments:
fyi, I've set up Flickr accounts for volunteers to use to upload photos of people who are missing, recently found, or okay. We've been using these tags:
katrinamissing
katrinafound
katrinaokay
We also tag all people as katrinapeople, so they can all be aggregated.
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