RE: [DDN] Re: Red Cross may be slow, but...

2005-09-06 Thread Joseph Beckmann
Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 12:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [DDN] Re: Red Cross may be slow, but... In a message dated 9/5/05 9:50:42 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In response to the question that Dan

Re: [DDN] Re: Red Cross may be slow, but...

2005-09-05 Thread Adite Chatterjee
In response to the question that Dan raised about how to get people to respond to issues, I truly feel that human nature, being as it is, once the 'disaster' has passed, nobody wants to think about the 'issue' anymore. During the tsunami-relief operations in India, many of the TV networks

Re: [DDN] Re: Red Cross may be slow, but...

2005-09-05 Thread Cindy Lemcke-Hoong
Over and over again I have heard it said (on TV and radio) that the Internet has been instrumental, in fact crucial, in facilitating access to information andcommunications when other more traditional methods have failed. I think this is a magnificent example of how the Internet, an

Re: [DDN] Re: Red Cross may be slow, but...

2005-09-05 Thread BBracey
In a message dated 9/5/05 9:50:42 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In response to the question that Dan raised about how to get people to respond to issues, I truly feel that human nature, being as it is, once the 'disaster' has passed, nobody wants to think about the 'issue' anymore. THE

Re: [DDN] Re: Red Cross may be slow, but...

2005-09-05 Thread BBracey
In a message dated 9/5/05 11:54:08 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Over and over again I have heard it said (on TV and radio) that the Internet has been instrumental, in fact crucial, in facilitating access to information andcommunications when other more traditional methods have

Re: [DDN] Re: Red Cross may be slow, but...

2005-09-05 Thread Taran Rampersad
Adite Chatterjee wrote: In response to the question that Dan raised about how to get people to respond to issues, I truly feel that human nature, being as it is, once the 'disaster' has passed, nobody wants to think about the 'issue' anymore. During the tsunami-relief operations in India, many

Re: [DDN] Re: Red Cross may be slow, but...

2005-09-03 Thread Dan Bassill
Since we have so many bright people connected through the DDN and other tech networks, I'd like to pose a question that I think we all would like an answer to. How do we get people to care and respond to social issues on the days and weeks when there is not a Tsunami or a Kartina to draw

Re: [DDN] Re: Red Cross may be slow, but...

2005-09-03 Thread Tanya Priber
In response: On Sep 3, 2005, at 2:01 AM, Andrew Pleasant wrote: In response to some of the general flow of the discussion ... and I didn't and wouldn't post anything about Pat Robinson ... it is clear that the hurricane ripped open not only buildings and levees but also society and