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Boston Bombing Shows How Wireless Emergency Alerts Can Work with Other Media

By   /  April 24, 2013  /  Emergency Management  /  No Comments

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The best examples of best practices often come from real life.  Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) showed the rest of us strong best practices when they issued the shelter-in-place order last week.  

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Public warnings–why crying wolf is downright bad

By   /  April 15, 2013  /  Emergency Management  /  No Comments

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from Gerald Baron @ the Crisis Comm Blog Two online stories came to my attention today about the dangers of crying wolf. It reminded me of a conference presentation I saw a few years ago when a federal official bragged about issuing public warnings to evacuate in a way that got attention and cut through [...]

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Are you really getting the message?

By   /  January 4, 2013  /  #smem  /  No Comments

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From A.W.A.R.E James Spann, a popular Alabama meteorologist and member of the popular online program “WeatherBrains“, posted recently about the popular social media site Facebook — and its shortcomings in the severe weather alerting process. He has noted how the warning processes must get better.  At one point, he called for every outdoor warning device (the “tornado” siren) to [...]

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Public safety networks coped better with Sandy than commercial networks

By   /  December 5, 2012  /  Emergency Management, General News  /  No Comments

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A new nationwide Long Term Evolution (LTE) network for first responders will be built under the supervision of the First Responder Authority (FirstNet). This network will be an improvement over the commercial networks that experienced outages during the storm. Urgent Communicationreports that last week the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) reported that 25 percent of the commercial cell sites in [...]

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FirstNet 101 – A Closer Look At NPSBN

By   /  November 27, 2012  /  Emergency Management, General News  /  No Comments

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From A.W.A.R.E Broadband is a big issue for our readers–especially where it  intersects with alerts and warnings. You have probably read one of the more popular examples of how first responders will be able to use broadband, by allowing them to send and receive video and data. However, it is also being recommended that the FCC [...]

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