A page of helpful links.

Crisis and Emergency Response Community Links

• Community Tool Box
  Promoting community health and development by connecting people, ideas and resources
• Emergency 2.0 Wiki
  To empower the community with the knowledge to use web2.0 and social media in emergency communications (Follow on Twitter with #em20wiki)
• IAEM
  International Association of Emergency Managers
• ISCRAM Community
  International Community on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
• Google Crisis Response
  Make critical information more accessible around natural disasters and humanitarian crises
• MPAT
  Multinational Planning Augmentation Team
• PKSOI - Peacekeeping & Stability Operations Institute
  US Army Peacekeeping & Stability Operations Institute. Providers of SOLLIMS - Stability Operations Lessons Learned Information Management System
• SAHANA - Open Source Disaster Management System
  Sahana is a Free and Open Source Disaster Management system. It is a web based collaboration tool that addresses the common coordination problems during a disaster from finding missing people, managing aid, managing volunteers, tracking camps effectively between Government groups, the civil society (NGOs) and the victims themselves.

Social Networks Links

• Ning
  The Ning Website
• Wikipedia - Comparison of social networking software
  Comparative table of features of a range of social networking and CMS platforms
• Microsoft Vine
  Microsoft Vine connects you to the people and places you care about most, when it matters. Stay in touch with family and friends, be informed when someone needs help. Get involved to create great communities. Use alerts, reports and your personal dashboard to stay in touch, informed and involved.
• Google Wave
  An open source and open API tool for communication and collaboration on the web

Virtual Worlds Links

• Second Life
  Second Life
• Join Second Life Free
  Join Second Life Free... suggest you skip the community step
• Second Life Tutorial Videos by Ho Max
  Learning fundamentals about operating your avatar in Second Life
• Opensim
  Open Source Virtual Worlds Server accessible via Second Life Viewer with a modified -loginuri parameter
• US Nexus from ECS
  ECS creates virtual worlds based training and simlation aids such as US Nexus. Demonstration videos for projects such as the US Joint State Response Training System (JSRTS) are available online.
• MyBase - the US Air Force in Second Life
  Second Life regions for public outreach from the US Army, Navy, Air Force and other organinizations. Start at "MyBase" for an introduction. MyBase is a set of regions dedicated to sharing the history and learning about the U.S. Air Force.
• Real Life Government Agencies using Second Life (GuSL)
  Mailing list is for people from real life government agencies around the world who are interested in or currently using Second Life. Used to share information that might be of interest to national and local government agencies, NGOs, and nonprofits.
• Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds
  FCVW supports individuals and organizations to improve government collaboration through the use of virtual worlds to enrich collaborative online experiences.
• Blue Mars 2150
  HD Virtual World for business, education and entertainment
• Project Wonderland
  Sun led 3D virtual worlds project and community, especially for education
• Unity3D  
  Game develipment and 3D virtual world platform. More information here.

OpenVCE Links

• AIAI
  AIAI Web Site
• I-Room
  I-Room: a room for intelligent interaction
• I-Room Services
  OpenVCE I-Room Services

Other Links

• MySQL
  The database
• PHP
  The language
• Joomla and Drupal - Which One is Right for You?
  A tabular comparison of Joomla and Drupal Open Source CMSs