Virtually New Orleans : CU News : Boulder Daily Camera

Virtually New Orleans : CU News : Boulder Daily Camera: "High school students enrolled in the camp are spending this week intensively exploring what led up to the 2005 storm that ravaged the Gulf Coast and went down in history books as one of the costliest and deadliest hurricanes. Later, the students will use Google SketchUp software and will post virtual reconstruction projects on Google Earth, where the models will be viewable worldwide."

Wired Campus: University Used Instant Messages to Communicate After Fire - Chronicle.com

Wired Campus: University Used Instant Messages to Communicate After Fire - Chronicle.com: "University Used Instant Messages to Communicate After Fire

In the wake of a devastating fire at Our Lady of the Lake University last month, university officials didn’t rely on phone calls or e-mail to keep the university community connected. They couldn’t. The fire was in the campus’s main building and had knocked the entire e-mail and phone networks out for about three days. Instead, the community relied on an instant-messaging service."

Technology Firms Come to China's Aid - WSJ.com

Technology Firms Come to China's Aid - WSJ.com: "As donations poured into China following last month's devastating earthquake, one group of Google Inc. engineers came up with their own contribution to the relief effort: a search engine."

AFP > Resource Center | Fundraising news > Charities See Potential for ‘Causes’ on MySpace, Facebook

An article by John Skendall from AFP ewire.


AFP > Resource Center | Fundraising news > Charities See Potential for ‘Causes’ on MySpace, Facebook: "Charities See Potential for ‘Causes’ on MySpace, Facebook

(June 9, 2008) A year after its release, the company that created the web application “Causes” (used by social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace) reports that the program has raised $2.5 million for 19,445 charitable organizations in the United States."