From Kim Stephens @ iDisaster 2.0

I want to bring attention today to a fantastic resource. This is not a blog post per se, but rather a link to GovDelivery’s Social Media Visionary Kit. The “kit” includes video’s of presentations  from Adam Connor, Steve Ressler, and David Kirkpatrick. Adam is the Associate Manager of Public Policy for Facebook and he provides 10 great tips for using social media for government. He addresses many topics including the “L” word–liability. The other two videos are from Steve Ressler, the co-founder of GovLoop and David Kirkpatrick, the author of “The Facebook Effect”.

Here is another article about the 10 tips Mr. Connor addresses: “Facebook’s Top 10 for Government“. My favorite tip is actually a resource list for government agencies.

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Through a spate of storms last year that flooded homes and knocked out power to wide swaths of the region, Hunterdon County’s social media accounts buzzed.

Its Facebook page told viewers how to report power outages and where to get showers and shelter. Its Twitter page steered viewers to websites with more information.

While it sounds counterintuitive to send emergency alerts through outlets that need electricity that might be knocked out, emergency management offices are increasingly using social media to let people know about crises big and small.

Read more @ www.lehighvalleylive.com

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