[Katrina-IT-Volunteers] Katrina disaster response web sites guideavailable

[Dale Thompson at home]

Typo in the volunteers list address first time.  Trying again.  Dale

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dale Thompson/Austin Free-Net" <dale at austinfree.net>
To: "Lynn Johnson" <lynn.johnson at creatdev.com>
Cc: <katrina-it-volunteers at soaustin.tx.us>;
<rondella.hawkins at ci.austin.tx.us>; <emilybr at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Katrina-IT-Volunteers] Katrina disaster response web sites
guideavailable


> Lynn - Yes, we are very grateful for Emily!  Sharing your remarks with her
> and the other evacuee computer assistance volunteers by cc of this reply.
> All of the computer volunteers were awesome at the convention center and
> many of them continue to volunteer with evacuees. Dale
>
> > My hat off to Emily and all the other volunteers for a great job.  My
> > friend
> > who is on the Board of the Red Cross was very interested and thankful
for
> > all the work you all have done.  Lynn Johnson
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dale Thompson/Austin Free-Net" <dale at austinfree.net>
> > To: <centexdisasterresponse at yahoogroups.com>;
> > <katrina-it-volunteers at soaustin.net>
> > Cc: <rondella.hawkins at ci.austin.tx.us>
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 5:48 PM
> > Subject: [Katrina-IT-Volunteers] Katrina disaster response web sites
> > guideavailable
> >
> >
> >> The html version of our guide to Katrina disaster response websites and
> >> online services for evacuees is now available along with the pdf
version
> >> at:
> >>
> >> http://www.austinfree.net/hurricaneresources.htm
> >>
> >> thanks to Emily Bromberg, who put all of this information in a coherent
> >> format and used her web savvy to make it all available to you.
> >>
> >> This is a guide for evacuees about how to use the many online services
> >> and
> >> very useful web sites for evacuees, based on information gathered by
> >> computer volunteers at the convention center shelter and updated as
best
> >> as we know at this writing:
> >>
> >> - Local resources(looking up bus schedules and routes, health services,
> >> housing, etc.)
> >> - how to setup an e-mail account to stay in touch with loved ones
> >> - how to register yourself in the peoplefinder databases as safe
> >> - how to search for news of loved ones in the peoplefinder databases
> >> - where to get information on disaster unemployment and many, many more
> >> online services
> >>
> >> We still need to add information on legal aid available, I believe, and
> >> we
> >> get updated information pretty regularly so the documents will change
> >> fairly regularly for awhile.
> >>
> >> The guide is meant to be helpful to evacuees themselves and the
computer
> >> volunteers helping them.  We found at the convention center that most
of
> >> the evacuees had no computer skills, but were eager to learn, have
> >> e-mail,
> >> and check things like their FEMA status online.  Our primary goal was
to
> >> get them registered with the Red Cross Family Links registry, teach
them
> >> to search online for news of loved ones, and get an e-mail account so
> >> they
> >> could stay in contact wherever they wound up.  The rest just came with
> >> the
> >> territory.
> >>
> >> Please let us know if you have any important resources to add.
> >>
> >>
> >> Dale Thompson, Financial Manager
> >> Austin Free-Net (www.austinfree.net)
> >> Fix-Net (www.austinfix.net)
> >> 512.326.9084 x10
> >> Fax:  512.974.3477
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> >> Volunteer info: http://www.austinfree.net/katrinavolunteer.htm
> >> List info: http://soaustin.net/mailman/listinfo/katrina-it-volunteers
> >>
> >
>
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