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26 Aug 09

Networking through Disaster : Local Knowledge

  • Home to more than 3,000 charities and nonprofits, 270 neighborhood associations, and dozens of coalitions and community groups, New Orleans is in the midst of a civic renaissance.  Frustrated with inept and inefficient local and federal governments, the people of New Orleans have harnessed the vast power of the Internet to network, fill their needs, and reach out to the traditional media.  Armed with blogs, Twitter, Yahoo groups, and wikis, nonprofits and citizen groups are transforming grassroots community, organizing into a potent force that is helping to determine how New Orleans will be rebuilt.
  • Yet what makes post-Katrina New Orleans unique is the degree to which digital networks have become ensconced in physical communities, even four years later. This digital revolution is not limited to bloggers and tech geeks—many people who had barely used the Internet before Katrina for more than sending e-mails are some of the leaders of the grassroots digital activism movement.
17 Aug 09

Virtual Tide - Local bloggers come together for the fourth annual conference to assess the state of the city since Hurricane Katrina. - News & Views - News Feature - Gambit - New Orleans

  • Ask a New Orleans blogger why they started blogging and you'll get a
    variety of responses: wanting to provide a written record of their
    life, striking out against the perceived inaccuracies of the mainstream
    media, connecting with friends and the thrill of seeing their work on
    the Internet. But if you ask them to pinpoint their inspiration, many
    will say the levee failures and a basic human need to give and receive
    information.
  • Part of what inspired so many New Orleanians to become bloggers in
    Hurricane Katrina's aftermath was the high level of misinformation
    being promulgated by the national media, such as the levee failures
    being caused by improper maintenance by local officials.
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