Here's some very anecdotal data from people involved in CrisisCamps around the country about which collaborative tools they'd found useful over the past couple of weeks.

Wikis: used second-most, after phones; reviewed most positively.

SJ

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Subject: [CrisisCamp Coordinators] Quick recap on comms tools so far Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:05:19 -0800 From: Jeremy Johnstone jstone@rhok.orgjstone@rhok.org To: crisiscamp-coordinators@googlegroups.com

"Negative" = voted 1 or 2 for the tool "Positive" = voted 3 or 4 for the tool

Twitter -- Neg: 11% / Pos: 47% Mailing Lists -- Neg: 12% / Pos: 62% Google Groups -- Neg: 14% / Pos: 63% Atrium -- Neg: 34% / Pos: 22% IRC -- Neg: 26% / Pos: 52% Wiki -- Neg: 13% / Pos: 71% Google Wave -- Neg: 50% / Pos: 16% Phone -- Neg: 17-26% / Pos: 48-69% Skype -- Neg: 10% / Pos: 58%

Will send out more detailed stats later, but wanted to get those numbers into the hands of decision makers asap.

-Jeremy