Re: [iaem-list] Helping Haiti Through "Tweak the Tweet"

We utilised a very similar approach in the Camp Roberts RELIEF 10-1 experiments late last year in supporting SMS from the field using special keywords and lat/long embedded in text messages to enable automatic entry of information into Sahana.

If these Twitter tags gain traction, we could probably look at something supporting them.

For more info, you can see the RELIEF 10-1 After Action report.

<http://star-tides.net/node/612>

Cheers Gavin


On 2010-01-17, at 06:40 , Paola Di Maio wrote:

> this approach is worth studying and document/keep in mind perhaps for future reference?
> 
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Leysia A Palen <palen@cs.colorado.edu>
> Date: Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:32 AM
> Subject: [iaem-list] Helping Haiti Through "Tweak the Tweet"
> To: iaem-list@lists.iaem.com
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> IAEM Discussion Group:
> Dear all:
> 
> Our research group at the University of Colorado/UC-Irvine is trying to deploy a Twitter-friendly hashtag-based syntax to streamline information coming through Twitter. We need your help and your feedback.
> 
> The idea is that by asking the user to introduce hashtags into written requests for help, offers of help, reports of status and so on, the result will be more machine-readable information that anyone (government and non-goverment organizations, technology-savy good samaritans...) can grab to better collate information coming from multiple sources.
> 
> We have developed an initial "folksonomy" with examples and instructions on this website:
> http://epic.cs.colorado.edu/helping_haiti_tweak_the_twe.html
> 
> or this for short (for retweeting):  http://tinyurl.com/yjfrjv6
> 
> For more information, please follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/epiccolorado
> 
> We welcome your expert feedback and assistance.
> Respectfully,
> Leysia Palen
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> Leysia Palen
> Asst Professor
> 
> connectivIT Lab
> Project EPIC: Empowering the Public with Information in Crisis
> 
> http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~palen/
> http://epic.cs.colorado.edu/
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> University of Colorado, Boulder