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#CharterNY Internet Service Back in #Plattsburgh

After two, days #CharterNY Internet service is back. Communication wasn't great, but when you got through to people yesterday they offered a month's free service. I think most people would have preferred the service.

The call center is somewhere far away, and that makes it hard to know what's happening and even how wide-spread the outage is. I think there are two lessons to be learned:

Facebook for Nonprofits and Community Groups on Roundtable 10/25/2010, 11 AM

We'll be talking about Facebook Pages for nonprofits and community groups. The price is right (free), and with just a few steps you can get your Page up and running. We'll cover some of the dos and don'ts. I just helped the Saranac River Trail group put up a Facebook Page, so we'll use it as an example (http://facebook.com/saranacrivertrail).

NYC is Crowdsourcing Irene Response with Ushahidi

NYC is turning to crowdsourcing to augment its 311 telephone reporting system. Visit NYC Severe Weather  to report a problem or see what others have reported.

The site is powered by Ushahidi. In their own words,

We are a non-profit tech company that develops free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.

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