People are using wiki technology in lots of ways to help each other out.
Starting in San Francisco, in early 2007, social workers and lawyers got together and built a wiki to host homeless resources -- SFHomeless.net lists all the known service providers plus using wiki categories, including Food, Shelter, Veterans, etc.
In June 2009 Los Angeles followed San
Francisco: LAHomeless.org.
Last week Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales helped launch
tampabayhomeless.wikia.com in his hometown.
Homeless resources wikis are revolutionizing the use
of social services resources, getting the whole community responsible for
content.
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Charles Dickens won't be surprised--not at all.
christian nation. we're number 1. woo hoo.
Maybe Arianna could push Newmark's post up the page. Just a little nudge, Arianna?