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Guest blogger (to Andrew P. Wilson’s Posterous): Tommy Hipper is currently pursuing his Masters degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and his proposed thesis is: How social media can be utilized to improve first responder mental health. The past few years have clearly demonstrated the power and value of social media in crisis situations. [...]

Many people have been working really hard to develop a mobile app to help crowdsource events associated with the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill. This, along with the back-end is still in process. The plan is to allow both geotagged, timestamped pictures and videos to be uploaded, along with various details like oil thickness. Also, [...]

Join us to as we collaborate in working groups formed from the CrisisCommons Founders Weekend to begin building the Strategic Framework for CrisisCommons. Workgroup leads will be hosting conference calls this weekend: Community Workgroup: Sunday, April 11 2010, 14:00ET/18:00 UTC/11:00 PST your local time: http://bit.ly/aiE5Ya (Leads: Heather Leson and Chad Catacchio) Governance Workgroup:  Sunday, April 11 – (CHANGE [...]

It has been almost a month since the first CrisisCamps assembled following the devastating earthquake in Haiti. Since the first five cities gathered on January 16, camps were held in more than 20 more cities. Hundreds of volunteers have given up their nights and weekends to work on more than 40 different projects performing tasks [...]

Crisis Camp, Ottawa chapter opened its doors today for volunteers to come together and help Haitians in need. While ‘Haitians in need’ is now a redundant phrase, ‘helping people’ isn’t. With the colossal amount of reconstruction required, both mentally and physically, any help, in whatever capacity is required. Thus, volunteers from all walks of life have gathered here in downtown ottawa to put their technical/non-technical prowess to use. With [...]

http://digiphile.posterous.com/haiti-crisis-camp-dc CrisisCamp RT @digiphile: Working hard: Pictures from Week 3 at @CrisisCamp #Haiti DC: http://j.mp/b3k9Sx#cchaiti #ccpersons 1:59 PM Jan 30th from TweetDeck

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This press release comes directly from Crisis Commons, who are doing such great work that we wanted to share them with all of our Girls in Tech. To learn more, or get involved, check out their site and follow them on Twitter.