It is a cool tool. And I'll watch with interest all you Windows folks making good use of it! Until it's available for OS X, "Let's all" leaves out a significant creative force in computing and communications.
Just my grumble. Have fun! Saludos Dave Pentecost On 7/11/05, Deborah Elizabeth Finn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (A version of this item with live links is available at > <http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog/_archives/2005/7/11/1015777.html>.) > > > > Dear Colleagues, > > I'm usually pretty staunch in my belief that nonprofit and > philanthropic organizations should not be carried away by cool tools, > but should subordinate the technology they use to organizational > missions and strategies. > > But now Google Earth has come along, and I think that we should all > download it, fiddle around with it, and see if we can make creative > use of it in our sector. > > Basically, Google Earth is a free online geographical information > system (GIS) tool that allows us to make nearly seamless use of a > wealth of visual information that is drawn from many sources. It > brings smart maps to our desktops. > > It's easy to see that this will be a powerful tool for nonprofit > educational organizations that want to teach geography. (This is a > wonderful discipline, which draws upon social research and natural > science for insights about our world, but which is often unfairly > deprecated as obsolete "now that we know where everything is.") I can > also see how useful Google Earth will be for planners and > community-based advocacy groups. But I'd also like to challenge all > of us in the nonprofit sector to think about other creative ways to > mine this data. For example, can direct-service nonprofits use Google > Earth to better understand their catchment areas and the clients that > live there? > > Let's start brainstorming, and find out! > > Best regards from Deborah > > Deborah Elizabeth Finn > Boston, Massachusetts, USA > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog > http://public.xdi.org/=deborah.elizabeth.finn > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE > in the body of the message. > -- The Daily Glyph http://www.gomaya.com/glyph Usumacinta http://www.gomaya.com/dams Cell 917 312 9733 _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
