If you read my blog, you know that I photographed Katleen Felix, a project manager for Fonkoze this past Monday for the canadian financial publication ‘Journal Les Affaires‘. Fonkoze is an organization that has been providing micro loans to Haiti for years now. They have the extremely reliable information, because of their network in Haiti. I personaly know and trust Mrs. Felix. She just posted the following on facebook:

“There are an empty Hospital at Milot in Cap Haitien hospital 75 miles from Port-Au-Prince, ready to treat quake victims! Media or people in need, please contact Tim 413-241-6526  or ttraynor1948@gmail.com. They have food,housing, full staffed trauma unit, and so far, only 4 victims to treat.”

The local people of Haiti have been using social media to get messages back to loved one saying that they are ok, texting their exact  location in the rubble, so that rescuers can find them.

Now you can use your Twitter stream, Facebook and LinkedIn status to share this message with the people in need in Haiti. Your post has a good chance of being read by someone who needs this info!

PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD

Click here for the original post from Mrs. Felix on facebook and check out (and donate) to fonkoze on their website. They are a charity that is accredited by the better business bureau.

Blogging only makes sense when you can find it. Or find it again. I have been working on providing good and relevant content on this blog and more and more people are reading it, and although it has always had an RSS feed, I have now made it easier to subscribe to that feed.

You can now subscribe to this blog in your favorite feedreader. Subscribe in a reader

If you’ve been reading my blog, you know that Photography by Depuhl was one of the 100,000 businesses that Google selected to be a ‘favorite place on Google‘. I got a nice sticker from Google that includes a QR code, which links to my website.

Well I just saw a cool way of using this bar code on a site I’ve just discovered. Rosh Sillar’s new media photographer website. He has his QR tag on the front page of his blog, so I figured I should also include mine on my blog – for an easy link back to my site.

QR Code

Social media exploded onto the web in earnest in 2009, with facebook having more hits than Google on Christmas, twitter becoming an interesting method of communicating with each other. What is in store for 2010? I believe Social networking is going to go B2B. With products such as Chatter from Salesforce and Wave from Google being tried out right now, collaboration between clients, partners, suppliers, … will look different then before.

If you already use wave, you will be able to see a wave that is inserted into this blog. If you are not take a look at the following introduction from Google and see if this looks interesting to you.