Social Media in the Recovery of the City of New Orleans
A month has passed since I went to the Catalyst Conference hosted by the Burton Group in San Jose, California. At the time, this mailing list was in the midst of it’s software rewrite, so I was unable to tell you about the wonderful article written in Network World about New Orleans.
The article How social networking saved New Orleans, written by John Fontana, tells the stories of the Crime March, the Green Dot Map, Beacon of Hope, Squandered Heritage, and Fix the Pumps.
My host, Mike Gotta, invited me to speak on a track about the new way of work, a track about social networking in the corporate work place. New Orleans was held up as an example of what people can do with social media as grassroots organizing infrastructure. Burton Group basically set me up to succeed at their event. It was another incredible opportunity for outreach, just like the NetSquared Mashup Challenge.
Connections were made. I’m reaching out to the people that I trust to try to figure out what to say when people from Cisco or Sun Mircosystems ask me what they can do to help. It makes it all the more important to get the neighborhood coworking center up and running at Trinity Christian Community, so that we have a place to invite people who can plug in and help us expand our capacity from the bottom up, making use of the innovative new ways of work that we’ve all been compelled to discover as part of this recovery.
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Alan:
Thanks you so much for all you do. As I always say together we can make a difference, and to everything there is a divine purpose and plan. Keep up the good work and I awaits the new program. My organizations are always interested in helping the people. We are strong believers in collaborative, and empowering the stakeholders.