Webaloo Assists North Dakota Flood Victims
Webaloo recently developed and manged an information website for residents affected by the resent flooding in the Fargo-Moorhead area.
The idea for the flood information website, www.redriverflood.tv, was conceived by Scott Hennen, a well-known talk radio host in Fargo. Scott had previously worked with Webaloo on another project and he invited them to assist him on this new venture.
“Residents of our area were complaining during the early days of the recent floods that they wasn’t a single source of the most up-to-date information on flood conditions and recovery resources,” said Scott Hennen of Fargo radio station am1100. “We believed that by using radio as the anchor, we could direct people to this website which utilized the most current interactive media to provide up-to-the minute information,” he said.
The website became the definitive place to get the most up-to-date information on flood conditions for residents of the Fargo/Moorhead area including live streaming video of news conferences.
Besides containing helpful links to city, county and state agencies, the website also featured video reports from local college students who were recruited by Scott Hennen and commissioned to spread out throughout the affected communities and report on what was happening. The armature reporter videos were one of the most talked-about parts of the website.