Workshop: Social Media for Crisis Response

Tutorials & Hands-on Workshops
Workshop: Social Media for Crisis Response
Sunday 10-05-2009
14:00 - 16:00

Chair: Susanne Jul, Amaryllis Consulting. USA

Room: ISCRAM 4

Question: Tweeting, texting, facebooking, skyping, voicing, blogging, flickring, youtubing. What do these words have in common?

The plethora of popular social networking technologies has spawned a plethora of verbs denoting their use for communication and collaboration, and created a sea of confusion and information that few busy professionals have time or energy to attempt to navigate.

This workshop offers a brief introduction to concepts and categories of social mobile media - social networking technologies that can be used on the go - and then provides participants the opportunity to get started with and practice using some that are proving particularly useful to ISCRAM researchers and practitioners. We focus on tools that are free and freely available, including Twitter, Facebook, Latitude, Blogger, and highlight a few that are being developed specifically for crisis response and management. We will then create opportunities, throughout the conference, for all conference attendees to share their experiences with each other and with the unfortunates who are not in Gothenburg. We welcome all levels of experience as we help each other learn about and explore the power of social mobile media.

Participants will need to bring their own physical technologies. Wireless internet access will be provided.