Taking a quick break from gardening and checked Twitter. I saw a lot of tweets around how people are using social media to track Hurricane Gustav and prepare to react to needs generated around the storm. Here are a few (Updated Sunday Aug 31, 4pm PDT, 6:20 pdt, 7:40 pm PDT, Updated September 1 9:35am):
- Vacuum – Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104: Gustav evacuation map
- Wayne Sutton tracking via Friend Feed
- Wayne Sutton’s Ustream feed
- Chris Brogan’s Tweets – lots of Gustav
- Andy Carvin’s Tweets
- Mark Mayhew who is tweeting from NO
- Gustav Group on Ning
- Twitter tracking for Gustav
- Mississippi Public Broadcasting updates on their page on Gustav
- Grumpicus Hurricane Maps
- Gustav Information Center
- Gustav Wiki for coordination of data and response – YOU CAN HELP IMPROVE THIS WIKI!
- Storm Tools – Ning site for Journalists about Gustav
- Gustav tags on Delicious
- Gustav Radio Reference Wiki (coordinating scanners and HAM/Amateur radio operators)
- Cerrado sets up a mobile updater for Gustav news http://ventana.cerado.com/gustav08/ – Mobile info center
- http://gustavpets.com/ – Pets and hurricane information
- collecting links of where/how to help (lower part of blog post, major disaster relief orgs rather than individual grassroots)
- Chicago News Tribune aggregating Gustav news and cover bloggers coverage
- Sun Sentinal’s page tracking Gustav (interesting to see how media is far more interactive this time)
- Gustav Cam
- Aggregated news feed (7:40pm Sunday night)
- Hurricane Gustav Support on Facebook (8pm Sunday nighty)
- Gustav on CraigsList
- Doc Searls is tracking too (Sunday 8:40 pm)
- Mahalo has a Gustav page, aggregating resources
- Tweets from NOLA.com, the online arm of the New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Tweets from the Red Cross
- ….from Lafayette, LA
- Twitter stream from the Beaumont (TX) Enterprise-Journal
- Millsaps College in Jackson MS just started a Twitter stream since they’re in the path of the storm
- World Wide Help blog has a resources post on Gustav.
- The ComputerWorld magazine blog now has a Gustav resources page. (these last few via Every Dot Connects) Sunday 8:50 pm
- Gustav Tracker – if you need help or let others know you are safe via Cell phone text message (SMS) (updated Monday 9:35 am PDT)
- Sites I’m tagging Gustav and Social_media on delicious
- Newscred’s aggregation of Gustav news (Monday 10:30 am PDT)
- Gustav bloggers (Monday, 3:30 pm pdt)
- And finally, a quick screen grab on Twitter as an example of the activity
Kia ora Nancy!
Gustav! Hmmm.
I learnt about this demon on this morning’s radio-news. But in all fairness to our technology, what a wonderful contribution it can make/is making to the safety and wellbeing of humankind.
I/we can only wait, watch and listen from New Zealand. I hope that the forward action, made possible by our technologies, can save children and families in ways not possible before this century.
Ka kite anō
from Middle-earth
Go, Nancy! Am thinking of reactivating the Katrina Direct Relief Blog. Hmmmmm….
xo Grace
Ken, this is my hope as well.
Grace, if you do, you know who you can call on to help!!
Hey Nancy,
Thanks for taking that screenshot & putting it on Flickr.
I just used it in my post. (I didn’t know Andy Carvin at the time).
http://conniebensen.com/blog/2008/08/31/the-power-of-social-media-volunteers-hurricane-gustav/
thanks for the great list too!
Connie
You are welcome, Connie! I also just updated the links rather than start a new post. Glad you have e-met Andy. He’s pretty amazing!
http://www.gregledet.net/hurricam/hurricam.html You’re missing a pretty important one.
I’ve added it Andrew. Thanks. Anyone else who has suggestions, I’ll edit them into the post to keep one full list (rather than multiple posts).
Great post Nancy – its important people find the information they’re looking for! All our thoughts and prayers with the brave people of the Gulf Coast.
BTW, another link to add to your list: http://www.newscred.com/hurricane-gustav