Archive: Mar 2018
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A Guide To Public Alerts And Warnings For Dam And Levee Emergencies
The audience for this guidebook is people involved with providing emergency messages and information to the public during times of impending flooding from dams and levees. This includes: – emergency management officials. – members of emergency management agencies. – public affairs personnel (public… Read More
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The Importance of Social Media in Crisis Communications
It’s 6 a.m. and your cell phone rings. It’s the chief of police and he’s called to notify you that one of the largest factories in your community suffered an explosion and has gone up in flames. Emergency responders are on the scene, but battling… Read More
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How Much Time Do You Have To Communicate In An Emergency? (Infographic)
Many types of emergencies can be a danger to your communities. Citizens look to local governments for instructions, guidance, and potentially life-saving information before, during and after a disaster. Have you considered how long you local government have to communicate to your citizens in… Read More
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Best Practices in Wireless Emergency Alerts
In developing the sample best practices contained in this report, the authors first performed research regarding the development and dissemination of best practices. Much of this research is summarized in the appendix. This research provided insights into best practice identification methods and guidance for the… Read More
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Using Social Media for Enhanced Situational Awareness and Decision Support
High-impact and high-visibility events have revealed the proliferation and widespread use of mobile devices. Combined with the rise in popularity of social media, the subsequent explosion in available information now spans multiple platforms and formats. Historically, the emergency response community has leveraged multiple data sources,… Read More
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From Concept to Reality: Operationalizing Social Media for Preparedness, Response and Recovery
Social media and collaborative technologies have become critical components of emergency preparedness, response and recovery. From the international response efforts after major tsunamis to hurricane recovery in major U.S. cities, many government officials now turn to social media technologies to share information and connect with… Read More
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The Public Sector Guide to Social Media Strategy and Policy
Use social media with confidence. This guide contains practical steps that will help public sector agencies and departments develop a social media strategy and policy to gain maximum value from social media efforts. It also outlines some smart records retention practices—so you’ll be better prepared… Read More
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PrepTalks: Modernizing Public Warning Messaging
Dr. Dennis Mileti’s PrepTalk, “Modernizing Public Warning Messaging,” presents research on how to design and disseminate alerts and warning information that encourages public action. He also emphasizes that “multiple dissemination channels for public disaster warnings yield quicker and more comprehensive audience penetration,” Mileti says. “One… Read More
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Tools for verifying and assessing the validity of social media and user-generated content
By Josh Stearns and Leighton Walter Kille This post was adapted from VerificationJunkie, a site created by Josh Stearns of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. @jcstearns “Interesting if true” is the old line about some tidbit of unverified news. Recast as “Whoa, if true”… Read More
