[okfn-help] Watching #opendata on Twitter?
Tim McNamara
paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz
Wed Jul 6 07:22:42 UTC 2011
There are some quite a good open source tool in the emergency management
community for handling this kind of stuff.
I recommend http://swiftly.org/sweeper.html.
We could use this to collect tweets (& and lots of other content) and should
be able to allocate tasks without duplication. It uses some neat machine
learning to make life easier over time.
On 6 July 2011 19:10, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Kaitlyn (Kat) Braybrooke
> <kat.braybrooke at okfn.org> wrote:
> > Let me know if you want me to find anything specifically!
>
> If you spot new initiatives then it would be very useful to try to
> catch up with them. Specifically:
>
> * New data catalogues (e.g. country X or city Y has launched a new
> data catalogue) - action:
> - add it to datacatalogs.org and email ckan-discuss list to let
> them know you've done so.
> - invite representatives from new initiative to open-government list
> * Any cool new projects - action:
> - Tweet or email them, asking for guest blog post, with Theodora
> and blog at okfn.org in cc
> - invite them to relevant mailing lists (e.g. open-government,
> wdmmg-discuss or ckan-discuss)
>
> Does this make sense?
>
> Lucy: do you also follow #opendata?
>
> J.
>
> --
> Jonathan Gray
>
> Community Coordinator
> The Open Knowledge Foundation
> http://blog.okfn.org
>
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>
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