Yeah, we had some good Twitter action during the fires (Twitter has got loads of potential in this area). A great example being @cfa_updates which was set up by a citizen to scrape and provide fire updates for those in the field via mobile devices. We've set up a ning to discuss some of these ideas and the story told by Dean about his experience with setting up @cfa_updates and running it during the fires is a great read. See this thread (in reverse chron order): http://victorianbushfirenetwork.ning.com/group/emergencyservicessocialmedia
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Nancy McClure <[email protected]> wrote: > along similar public-notification lines, I use the Twitter service > www.twitter.com, and follow SFBART which sends out light rail timetable > delay status reports that would be wholly ineffective if they were sent to > me via email. > > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Mark Elliott <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks Howard and Nancy! - from the article upon first scan: >> >> ...SMS and mobile IM messages seem to hold a much stricter timetable [than >>> instant messaging]. Almost all participants indicated a punctual 5-15 >>> minutes response time at replying to messages they receive. They expect >>> similar response time for messages that they send out, so much so that most >>> of them claimed that they would follow-up with a second message or phone >>> call, if no response was given within 2 hours. >>> >> >> Also of note: >> >> All participants responded that they almost always immediately notice the >>> notification and immediately >>> respond by reading the SMS/mobile IM message. In contrast, participants >>> indicated they are more likely to negotiate their response time when dealing >>> with desktop/laptop IM messages, leading to longer delays before reading the >>> message. >>> >> >> As many of you probably are aware of, here in Australia, in my state >> Victoria, we had some pretty horrendous bushfires (forest fires) - many >> lives lost, completely unprecedented fire dynamics etc. My >> consultancy<http://collabforge.com>is providing advice and strategy to >> emergency services bodies regarding >> options for enabling smart mobs via social media, SMS and other distributed >> communications which got me wondering about response time. >> >> It's interesting to think about the network effects of cascading >> responses, each taking 5-15 minutes - which actually adds up to sizable >> delays. However this doesn't take into consideration sending messages to >> groups, or even how many individual messages might be sent out after >> receiving one high priority / important message - which could create >> exponentially growing cascades of recipents. >> >> Of course a major problem we had with the last fires was that mobile/cell >> phone coverage went down in effected areas as cell towers were consumed in >> the fires... >> >> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Nancy McClure <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> this study has a short section on the immediacy of recognition, and >>> begins to allude to the impact upon social response. No hard metrics, but >>> could lead you to more... >>> >>> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jasonh/publications/CHI2006-kptang-workshop-chi2006.pdf<http://www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Ejasonh/publications/CHI2006-kptang-workshop-chi2006.pdf> >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Mark Elliott <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Has anyone come across any research on average SMS text message response >>>> time - that is, the average time it takes for someone to respond to an SMS >>>> text message (not the technical potential speed, but the social speed)? >>>> >>>> Just curious as it seems like it would be an interesting indicator >>>> regarding speed of potential cooperation via SMS smartmob networks... >>>> >>>> Thoughts? >>>> Mark >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> ----- >>>> Mark Elliott, PhD >>>> Director, CollabForge pty ltd >>>> collaboration ~ mass collaboration ~ social software >>>> http://Collabforge.com <http://collabforge.com/> ~ >>>> http://Mark-Elliott.net <http://mark-elliott.net/> ~ >>>> http://MetaCollab.net <http://metacollab.net/> >>>> Phone: 0421 978 501 (international callers: +614 21 978 501) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> ----- >> Mark Elliott, PhD >> Director, CollabForge pty ltd >> collaboration ~ mass collaboration ~ social software >> http://Collabforge.com ~ http://Mark-Elliott.net ~ http://MetaCollab.net >> Phone: 0421 978 501 (international callers: +614 21 978 501) >> >> >> > > > -- > http://apertedesign.typepad.com > > > > -- ----- Mark Elliott, PhD Director, CollabForge pty ltd collaboration ~ mass collaboration ~ social software http://Collabforge.com ~ http://Mark-Elliott.net ~ http://MetaCollab.net Phone: 0421 978 501 (international callers: +614 21 978 501) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CooperationCommons" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CooperationCommons?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
