Engaging Citizens the Right Way: Government Uses Twitter During Hurricane Irene
Twitter and the emergency preparedness and response (EPR) community.
Twitter and the emergency preparedness and response (EPR) community.
How does someone keep up with all the hashtags on Twitter?
The implications of data collection via social media are significant if applied to the field of public safety.
While social media may be very helpful in disasters, users should be aware of some of the potential privacy issues that they present.
Important issues were raised by the participants in the International Conference of Crisis Mappers Conference (ICCM) earlier this month.
The first in a series of blogs that will address issues related to establishing a more thought through disaster response management system.
The Emergency Social Data Summit was convened in August 2010 to address how to leverage social media during emergencies.
Imagine if emergency organizations could leverage the data collected via crowd sourcing from both citizens and public systems.
The two predominant concepts of social media and emergency management must be integrated somehow.
We need to discover how to better share information amongst stakeholders and identify ways to work together.
There is still a significant dissonance between lessons learned from past events and the implementation of these strategies.
The international community can’t afford to continue business as usual.