Being Prepared to Blog and Photoshare for Disasters

via my colleague Teresa Crawford ... who passed this along via email ...

Thought folks might be interested in reading the Humaninet blog from Gregg Swanson who will be blogging and uploading photos to the Hnet Flickr account via a satellite connection at a disaster response exercise in Asia put on by ADRA Asia.

Blog:  http://www.humaninet.blogspot.com/
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/humaninetpics

Gregg is testing out Telenor mobile satellite equipment and services during the exercise and getting a sense of how to use blogging and photo sharing more effectively during a natural disaster.  Rarely do NGOs get a chance to test things out in a controlled yet realistic environment like the one ADRA Asia has put together.  Gregg's participation in the exercise is a natural progression from the SimDay events Humaninet has hosted in Silicon Valley and Portland.

She wrote about their experiences setting up the blog and Flickr accounts and will write another installment about Gregg's experience in the field. 

I'm going to ping Dina Mehta who I met at the Global s Summit in London last year and heard her speak on blogging and disasters at blogher along with Grace Davis.   They probably already know about each other's work.