This video by Gerald Baron excellently describes how social media is risk communications.
Social Media Centers – Right or Wrong for Emergency Managers?
from the Disaster 2.0 blog by Adam Crowe
Earlier this week, David Armano posted a very interesting article to his Logic+Emotion Blog about the growing trend for major companies and events to utilize social media centers to measure and control social media activity that might impact them. Mr. Armano specifically mentions companies like Dell and Gatorade and the events like the 2012 Super Bowl that will all leverage this concept.
As an emergency manager, this process intrigued me as it was very similar to the coordination and management utilized in multi-agency coordination systems like emergency operations centers (EOC) or joint information centers (JIC). I would wager a guess that an average emergency manager already has some of his/her most significant challenges in the maintenance, upkeep, staffing, and training of EOCs, JICs and the like. So is even a possibility to start looking at centers to manage social media information in a disaster? Maybe not…
Read more @ www.emergencymgmt.com
Benefits & Challenges of Social Media in Emergency Management
The following video interview of Cheryl Bledsoe (@CherylBle) was created by Chris Martin (@cmstudios).
Security ‘unprecedented’ for Super Bowl 2012 in Indy
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said today no legitimate terrorist threats have been made surrounding the Super Bowl in Indianapolis.
“We have no specific or credible threats against Super Bowl 46,” Napolitano said at a news conference with federal, state and local law enforcement officials in Indianapolis.
The officials called the security precautions in advance of the game “unprecedented” and urged visitors to stay vigilant for nefarious activity.
“If you see something, say something,” Napolitano said. “We have seen time and time again that the public itself is our best protection.
Read more @ indystar.com
Can character really be evident prior to the crucible of a real event?
from the Crisis Comm Blog
I commented earlier on the culpability the leaders of the cruise line, Carnival Cruises, that hired and/or promoted the Captain of the Costa Concordia had for the Captain’s unacceptable behavior. My point was to raise the issue now among those people responsible for hiring emergency managers or Incident Commanders so that serious character and leadership flaws as the Captain demonstrated could be identified before an event occurred where people or things got hurt unnecessarily.
I always (well, almost always) enjoy hearing from readers of this blog, and particularly if the comments are from people I know and respect. Neil Clement is a long time emergency management professional and former broadcaster who headed up emergency management for the county during the event that propelled me into this business.
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