Quakebook

The 3D appearance of @ourmani took backstage to the news….I’m still struggling to take everything on board. Where shall I start?

Yoko Ono has contributed to Quakebook.

From everyone involved, I can only say an enormous thank you.

Amazon and Sony are going to make the book available in a digital format with every penny going to the Japanese Red Cross. We’re now in talks with Apple too.

Wow!

The live broadcast of the Quakebook press conference, where we finally saw who our man was, delivered all and more that the global team could have hoped for to help those still suffering in Japan.

Quakebook is HUGE.

Because the problems are.

There will be a second edition in some form – details to be confirmed.

Everyone, but everyone who has contributed to Quakebook will make a difference to real people in Japan.

And that, my friends, is why we started. To all of you in Japan, this is for you.

At 10am JST on Friday 1st April 2011, OurManinAkibo took to the stage at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan.

For those of you who were unable to attend in person, we have a recording of it here.

Many thanks to Tomoko Hosaka at the Associated Press for including #QuakeBook in their coverage of social media use following the March 11th Earthquake. The story is now appearing in news outlets worldwide.

Associated Press: Japan disaster sparks social media innovation

2:46 QuakeBook is more than just an anthology of personal experiences of the quake; there are also photos, images and artwork.

You can now see a small selection of these on the Excerpts page.

Almost 200 photos already.

Well done to @taotsu and @aragoto for getting the Quakebook group description in Japanese, encouraging over 50 members to join, and for creating a wonderful archive of Quakebook supporters’ photos from Japan.

You must go and see the photos on Flickr…..

AFP has now picked up the QuakeBook story, which means it has gone out on all the newswires.

The media page might need far more attention shortly! Thank you AFP.

Every day at 2:46 Japan Standard Time, @quakebook will tweet a quote from Quakebook, as well as a link to the “Buy Quakebook” page on this blog. If you don’t already follow @quakebook on Twitter, we ask you to start doing so, because every day we will be relying on all of our Twitter followers to retweet the quote of the day as soon as we post it. The Japan Times has already committed to follow and support us in the retweeting campaign.

The good news keeps coming thick and fast. You can check out Barry Eisler’s books on his website.

Sales of the poster that became the cover of #quakebook have already raised $15,000.


Order yours here http://bit.ly/dYfUpj