Tag Archives: life online

Philanthropy is Open Source Crowd Sourced Disaster Relief for Haiti

By Val Booth | Published: January 20, 2010
Crowd Sourcing With thanks to Michael Keizer, disaster relief logistics specialist, this article has been updated to reflect the difference between the “legal” term, “open source” and the “behavioural” or organizational term, “crowd sourcing.” Web Marketing Strategist Michelle Greer posed an interesting question two days ago: What if Disaster Relief Were Run Like an [...]
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Silentale’s Bold Mission: Aggregate Your Digital Conversations and Contacts

By Val Booth | Published: September 25, 2009
Following TechCrunch’s announcement last week about a new start-up focused on reeling in all of your digital conversations, I wrote an article about communication and the invite-only private beta, put in my bid for an invitation and waited. This morning I received my invitation code for the Silentale private beta and could not wait [...]
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Silentale: The March Toward Searchable and Syncable Communication Data

By Val Booth | Published: September 8, 2009
Communication is a hallmark of humanity. So necessary is our ability to communicate that we have built devices and infrastructures that enable better and faster communication. We have face-to-face conversations in coffee houses, offices, grocery stores, baseball fields, schools and homes; that is so old-school. We speak “on the ‘phone” using mobile devices and “landlines.” [...]
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