The previous week did not know about who could write, the dilemma presented to me every two weeks. I think you basically need to think to write about something new that might interest people, with a fresh approach and talk, basically, what one / to make you differently to other others. Thus, via twitter consulted on what might write to my fans, those close friends. One of them, dear, I was told to write about solidarity, I told him that he could not write about these things, because one has a heart. Minutes later, over lunch, I sat down to watch television and think of all those anonymous, that we, the users of social networks, and we were practicing solidarity in our own way. And I felt it necessary to write this column you read then and that was published in full carnival Sunday Supplement Ideas OAR P Seven.
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when Chile faced the worst disaster naturally has faced in recent times, an online journalist in the country (Ramón Salaverría) noted that: "Twitter was the seismograph information." Of course, the earthquake had occurred at night and while " asleep means "full citizenship in beginning to report on disasters, rising early (metaphorically and literally) to the European continent with the news. The same had happened months before the devastating earthquake that had troubled Haiti, but of course, this time, these efforts to be rolled out, that is the world learned of the misfortune of this sister, while in Haiti hopefully possessed a radio in Port-au-Prince, find out what was happening in the rest of the country. Fast reached international correspondents to connect to digital media and social networks known to inform the rest of the world than was happening and quickly too, began to establish mechanisms to concentrate international aid to the two disasters, from anywhere in the world.
Chile and Haiti are undoubtedly two opposing poles as far as use of new information and communication technologies concerned. Chile, on the one hand, it constitutes one of the Latin American countries with the highest number of users in Web 2.0 has, on the contrary Haiti rarely shown on the map to use social networks as a tool for generation and dissemination of information. "Bolivia? Let's say that in Bolivia the number of Internet users and, specifically, social networking (Web 2.0.) Is limited but powerful. Let's see.
Images: Some blogs, such as the online magazine The Bad Word, have made a major effort to collect photographs, belonging to various news agencies on areas of landslides. The value of this is that the media rarely able to bring together so much information both printed graphics. At the same time, several citizens and citizen groups have shared photos of the disaster themselves or of the facts that show of solidarity through tools like twitpic (web site that allows users to easily publish photos on twitter and other social networks) This has helped us various / as to understand the magnitude of the facts, look beyond traditional media.
Facebook: The most widely used network in Bolivia have created thematic groups that focus at least in the early days have not been addressed by traditional media. The event, "Helping victims of landslides" are able to organize the sites for donations to areas and persons responsible for this, with their telephone numbers of location. SOS Animals group of Bolivia and the event "helps non-human animals of landslides in Callapa" fast had begun on Monday, campaigning for temporary shelter, food and water for the animals of people who have experienced disaster, through these profiles has traveled a lot of information for people who want help from all parts of the country. Also, the renowned organization "A Roof for My Country" has started an event in which volunteers invite to register to participate in rebuilding homes for the homeless.
Twitter: As this column is being written, several tweets (message posted on twitter, which consists of 140 characters) with hashtags (words or phrases prefixed with a hash symbol (#) to serve multiple concatenated words to label a specific topic in social networks) # FuerzaLaPaz, AyudaLP #, # # Bolivia LaPaz and are being published, they get linked some pictures that show of solidarity paceña population or, where appropriate, ways and places advertised collection donations and supplies. In sum "tweeted" (replicating a message on twitter) La Paz and Bolivian solidarity.
Websites: A website called "Support Peace" has opened the field, quickly, in the virtual world, establishing a space in which many citizens may be established as volunteers to go to lend a hand people of the east slope of the city. At the same time, have created a Pay Pal account (web service that allows you to send money anywhere in the world, anyone with an email address) so that it can channel money donated shipments to La Paz, from anywhere in the world.
is certainly a little early to account for the impact they are having social networks in relation to the largest disaster that passes the city of La Paz, however it is important to know that beyond the factual reality media (which mobilizes fixture and microphones to scream to the best of their solidarity solidarity) there is a battalion of citizens anonymous / as which are, at this very moment, by mobilizing its capabilities and willingness to account for situations in general and how are you other information is possible and other solidarity ... as well.
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