last updated on November
12, 2005
Resources
most are aware of Google but
there are other reference and how-to sites
- Social Services
- (also
see Digital/remote
services -
digital family contact)
- Medical Services
- (also
see Digital/remote
services -
digital family contact)
- Social Change/Action
- WorldChanging
is a
collaborative effort to knit together social
solutions, and "pulling
back the curtain."
About:
"WorldChanging.com works from a simple premise: that the tools, models
and ideas for building a better future lie all around us. That plenty
of people are working on tools for change, but the fields in which they
work remain unconnected. That the motive, means and opportunity for
profound positive change are already present. That another world is not
just possible, it's here. We only need to put the pieces together."
- MySociety.org
[this is a British based site]
Placeopedia and YourHistoryHere
— 14th September 2005
Posted by Tom Steinberg
mySociety yesterday launched a pair of Back o’ The Envelope projects
based on Google Maps.
Placeopedia.com — Connect
Wikipedia articles with the places they
represent
YourHistoryHere.com —
Share local and geographic history and trivia.
There are a few things to say about both projects:
- As is normal with mySociety projects the code for these
projects
(excepting Google maps) is open source. We hope that by providing a
ready-made annotation system, people will find it easier to make their
own publicly-authored layers of information.
- Both sites syndicate their data under open source licenses,
and in
a location-queryable fashion. This is really important, as it allows
for all types of nice local history to be syndicated to tourism sites,
local community discussion boards, blogs and so on.
- We’re calling them ‘Back o’ the Envelope’ to contrast them to
the
big, polished and time consuming projects we run like PledgeBank.com
and WriteToThem.com.
PledgeBank: "We
all know
what it is
like to feel powerless, that our own actions can't really change the
things that we want to change. PledgeBank is about beating that
feeling..."
- The Social
Networking Landscape
"...What emerged from this effort is a 'Landscape' diagram of Social
Networking, shown above. The eight major objectives are:
- Finding people (discovering, rediscovering, or locating them)
- Building directories, network maps and social networks
- Inviting people to join your networks
- Managing access to your networks ("permissioning")
- Connecting with people in your networks (using various media)
- Managing relationships across media (e.g. making the jarring
transition from e-mail or weblog-based relationships to voice-to-voice
or face-to-face)
- Collaborating with people in your networks, and
- Content sharing with people in your networks (and other
learning, knowledge-finding and knowledge-sharing functionalities that
are arguably the domain of Knowledge Management rather than Social
Networking)
Because they are so easy to
build, there is a temptation to design
Social Software to provide many Social Networking and Knowledge
Management functions in a single tool. The consequence, often, is an
over-engineered, unintuitive, overwhelming product. Let's take a look
at ten of the most successful tools to date, to see what critical
functionality has made them so successful:..."
[How to save the world]
- x
- Digital/remote
Services for Baby
Boomers
- digital family contact
- Basic
online resources
- local elder services
- guide thru maze of
e-records authorization & access
- health
- financial
- services to support
their Pre-BabyBoomers
- ease remote support
- guide
thru maze of e-records authorization & access
- health
- financial
- digital family
contact
- local elder
services
- Education Services for the
non-Digital
boomer
- Environmental News/Action
- RealClimate
[climate science news]
- Miscellaneous:
btw NEWS
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(d.b.a. BTW Productions)
(BTW = By The Way)