Does social media monitoring belong in Planning or PIO?
by Gerald Baron @ the Crisis Comm Blog In a previous post on making suggestions for updating NIMS, I suggested that social media monitoring should go into the ICS structure rather than be considered a part of the JIC or PIO responsibilities. This prompted some thoughtful responses from readers of this blog–I encourage you to [...]
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