Hannah Del Porto from our ImpactWatch team provides a great introduction for those looking to set up their own monitoring/measurement programs....
Continue ReadingVideo demonstration of Google’s latest product, Google Buzz, which the company describes as a "new way to start conversations about the things you find interesting." You can read the Google product announcement here and a good overview of the service over on Techcrunch here....
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Peter Warden has a great post up on his blog that looks at how Facebook users in different states are connected to each. He finds that the U.S. can be divided into roughly seven regions, which are visualized above. Be sure to read the full post....
Continue ReadingI’m not a big fan of the majority of available widgets, apps, and games that bombard Facebook. Most are garbage in my opinion, and do nothing other than clutter your profile or page.
The problem is many of these widgets were built with the old school marketing mentality of “if we build it,...
Continue ReadingIn response to the devastating aftermath of the twin earthquakes (on January 12 and then on January 20) in Haiti, Crisis Commons has come to serve as a key forum for the coordination of professional volunteers in the development of rapid solutions to the diverse array of information-based challenges facing the aid effort....
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