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Preparedness: Science + Outreach + Splash + Social + Mobile

Preparedness is the tough nut to crack because it requires the public to take on personal responsibility for their own safety during and recovery following a disaster.  If they don’t accept that a disaster will happen to them, they’ll never buy the concept of preparedness.

Peel readiness separate from preparedness for the rest of this.  . . . → Read More: Preparedness: Science + Outreach + Splash + Social + Mobile

Disaster Life Cycle: Too Elementary for Reality

The disaster life cycle: Preparedness, Response, Recovery, Mitigation, Repeat.

That’s my growing issue with the disaster life cycle when applied to the public.  The cycle is flat and prescriptive implying that disaster will occur again the same way.  Life is a spiral.  Some days, the spiral the goes up and some days the spiral goes . . . → Read More: Disaster Life Cycle: Too Elementary for Reality

White Rabbit teaching method

There are instructors that want to have the course lesson completely planned out so they know exactly what to say at what time.  I’m not really one of those instructors.  There are definite objectives that need to be reached during a class session but the path doesn’t need to be that prescribed.  I’d rather let the . . . → Read More: White Rabbit teaching method

The possibility of 4G

It is important to take note of the possibility of 4G.  A T1 circuit is 1½ Mbit/s.  The minimum 4G standard of 100 Mbit/s is 66 times larger.  Take a look at the graphic posted on my blog at http://keith.robertory.com/?p=560 for a better understanding of this.  A cell phone running true 4G will have more . . . → Read More: The possibility of 4G

Poor communications can even be blamed for the Dark Ages

Communication is vital.  It is the passing of information from one person to another.  This information can be a thought, a request, a need … anything at all.

An interesting though was put forth about communications in a historical show about the Dark Ages in Europe: after the plague and the Viking hordes, there were . . . → Read More: Poor communications can even be blamed for the Dark Ages

A few notes on internet use and social media

Here’s a few notes.  Watch this spot for information on showing the power and expectations of social media in disasters.

How much has internet usage changed in the last 10 years? http://pewinternet.org/Infographics/2010/Internet-acess-by-age-group-over-time-Update.aspx

Who’s online? http://pewinternet.org/Static-Pages/Trend-Data/Whos-Online.aspx

What do people do everyday on the Internet? http://pewinternet.org/Static-Pages/Trend-Data/Online-Activites-Total.aspx and http://pewinternet.org/Infographics/The-tasks-of-everyday-life-and-the-Internet.aspx

Why Americans use social media? http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Why-Americans-Use-Social-Media/Main-report.aspx (2011)

 

How big is . . . → Read More: A few notes on internet use and social media

IAEM conference summed up by Twitter

I’ve reviewed the tweets during the IAEM Conference in an effort to pull out the ones that best flavor the conversations occuring in the sessions.  This is a step beyond the capture that is documented here.  Instead of a normal summary of the conference that I’d provide to share learning with others, this time I’m . . . → Read More: IAEM conference summed up by Twitter

Twitter during the IAEM conference

The following was originally posted to the IAEM LinkedIn group.  We have a long way to go when >2500 people attend a conference but only 140 were active on social media.  A conference like IAEM is a great place for people to pratice.

Hi,

There were some really good discussions occurring on Twitter during the . . . → Read More: Twitter during the IAEM conference

Social Engagement Guerilla Marketing

So I’m sitting at the lunch for IAEM and Hal (@Hal_Grieb) tweets me “Psssttt…. @KRobertoryIAEM look behind you. #iaem http://yfrog.com/nv89lxvj”

Let’s step back a few minutes before this.  Hal was on his handheld watching the twitter stream during the lunch speaker.  The person next to him asked what he was doing.  Hal . . . → Read More: Social Engagement Guerilla Marketing

#IAEM Tweets

@AnaheimCERT gave me a great idea to use TweetDoc.org to capture all the tweets for the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) conference.  There were so many tweets over the conference that I had to make a series of documents. 

Each document is the end of the date range.  So, Nov 14 is really all . . . → Read More: #IAEM Tweets