Tropical Storm Fay is on her way to Orlando (ahem! home of Orangejack LLC) so we’re paying attention.
It’s been a hobby of mine tracking and keeping up with tropical storms and hurricanes. I’ve been writing about it on my personal blog in the Hurricane category of rob’s place.
But that’s not the only place social media around this storm is happening. Twitter has been buzzing about Fay. I set up a Hurricane room on FriendFeed that allows us to automatically import updates and allows members to comment, discuss, and share links. There are plenty of storm blogs available also.
One of the more interesting blogs that has popped up is one called Hurricane Fay Online Newsroom by the Red Cross that has a lot of breaking news updates and resources. Not only can you get updates from them by email or RSS, but also Twitter and they even have used Utterz.
Although most people still get their news from TV, this is the movement we’re seeing in online communication.
August 18th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Thanks for the social media kudos for the Red Cross!
I’m off to check out your FriendFeed room.
August 18th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
I think what you’re doing is awesome! I’ve also added the Red Cross twitter updates to be automatically added to the FriendFeed room.