NYC:Prepared manages a CKAN data repository. It’s the same software used by the UN Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affair’s (OCHA) Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) Project to share critical response information throughout the world. Let’s do it throughout the five boroughs. Our data repository allows individuals and groups to upload, organize, share, preview, host, download,… Read more »
Posts By: Devin Balkind
Resource Management by the People, for the People
Resource management software has been too expensive and complicated for anyone but the largest organizations to use, but that’s all changing thanks to the Sahana Software Foundation’s free/libre/open-source EDEN software, which we’re offering to NYC-based relief and resilience groups free of charge. Use it to manage information about your staff, facilities and assets. Make official… Read more »
Presented at Equitable Resilience
September 18th, 2014 at Equitable Resilience organized by CNYC
Presented at Disaster Volunteer Conference: Breaking the Technology Barrier
May 31st, 2014 at Disaster Volunteer Conference: Breaking the Technology Barrier organized by NYC’s Office of Emergency Management
Data Basics
Data helps us turn overwhelming amounts of information into knowledge we can use to make better decisions. During this training you’ll learn how to use freely accessible tools to make data useful and valuable to your group, as well as techniques that enable multiple groups to share data to improve coordination and communication. More specifically,… Read more »
Google Drive
Google Drive is a popular and free collaborative document editing and file sharing system that integrates nicely with Gmail and other Google Products. During this training you’ll learn how to use it as effectively as possible to collaborate with others. This trainings will include how to: Create a Google and/or Gmail account to access Google… Read more »
WordPress Basics
Learn how to go from 0 to your own, independent WordPress website on your own, independent server in 60 minutes. This training session will show you how to: Buy a domain name and point it to a server. Set up a WordPress website, add pages, posts, categories, tags, and move menu items around. Install plugins… Read more »
Contribute to our Directory of Human Services
Purpose The purpose of this task is to turn existing resources that contain information about human services available to people affected by Superstorm Sandy into open data that numerous stakeholders can collaboratively edit, update and maintain. Our hope is that this will result in a comprehensive resource that human services professional can use to better… Read more »
Google Drive Training
Google Drive is a popular and free collaborative document editing and file sharing system that integrates nicely with Gmail and other Google products. During this training you’ll learn how to use it as effectively as possible to collaborate with others. This trainings will include how to: Create a Google and/or Gmail account to access Google… Read more »
WordPress Basics Training
Learn how to go from 0 to your own, independent WordPress website on your own, independent server in 60 minutes. This training session will show you how to: Buy a domain name and point it to a server. Set up a WordPress website, add pages, posts, categories, tags, and move menu items around. Install plugins… Read more »
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