Inspired by One Tweet: Quakebook’s Creation is Helping Japan Raise Money
Inspired by One Tweet: Quakebook’s Creation is Helping Japan Raise Money
An expatriate in Japan, Our Man in Abiko, sent out a call with a single Tweet to social media contributors that eventually led to the creation of an e-book called Quakebook. “The idea was to share the stories and experiences of people actually on the ground during the earthquake,” claims Quakebook.org. “In just four weeks, the 2:46 Quakebook project has turned an idea first voiced in a single tweet, into a rich collection of essays, artwork and photographs submitted by individuals around the world, including people who endured the disaster and journalists who covered it.”
Quakebook is available on Amazon for $9.99. Amazon stated the intentions of the editor who created the book, “is to record the moment, and in doing so raise money for the Japanese Red Cross Society to help the thousands of homeless, hungry and cold survivors of the earthquake and tsunami. ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of the price you pay (net of VAT, sales and other taxes) goes to the Japanese Red Cross Society to aid the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. ”
The book has the title 2:46 Quakebook because it begins by showing the effects at 2 minutes and 46 seconds after the quake hit. There are over 30,000 words of accounts and over 200 people who have chipped in for this project. This whole project was completely volunteer-oriented and the e-book became available in only one month after the disaster. Quakebookorg stated, “The contributions in 2:46 Aftershocks have come from a wide variety of sources, and include photographs, personal accounts, drawings; each telling their own tale.”
Click here to read some excerpts from 2:46 Quakebook: Aftershocks Stories from the Japan Earthquake. To follow on Twitter, check out #Quakebook.
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