• Military Announces New Social Media Policy – NYTimes.com
  Many months behind schedule, the Department of Defense on Friday issued a new policy that, on the surface, seems likely to expand access to popular social networking sites like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter by troops using military computers.
  (tags: twitter socialmedia democracia)
• Social Media Today | Forget the 80/20 principle, with Twitter it is 79/7
  A well known rule of thumb in business is the so-called Pareto principle (or the 80/20 rule) that 20% of participants will account for 80% of the activity. Metrics firm Nielsen decided to test out if the same applies to Twitter – do 20% of tweeple account for 80% of what takes place on Twitter.
  (tags: web2.0 twitter)
• Ushahidi e o papel sem precedentes mensagens SMS em Resposta a Desastres
  What if we could communicate with disaster affected communities in real-time just days after a major disaster like the quake in Haiti? That is exactly what happened thanks to a partnership between the Emergency Information Service (EIS), InSTEDD, Ushahidi, Haitian Telcos and the US State Department. Just 4 days after the earthquake, Haitians could text their location and urgent needs to “4636” for free.
  (tags: ushahidi crowdsourcing celulares)

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