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Entries in Disaster Response (20)
In Health Emergencies, One Knowledge Management System Cannot Rule Them All
I received an email commenting on Social Networking and Elsevier’s “Grand Challenge” for Knowledge Enhancement in the Life Sciences. I had suggested that networked access to published health science authors would be useful in emergency situations where there is the need for rapid access to high quality health information from many different sources.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Google, Social Networking, Standards, Knowledge Management, Expertise Management, Tagging, Associations, Peer Review, Social Media, Disaster Response, Homeland Security, Emergency, Libraries, Social Network Portability, DataPortability
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Social Media and the Spread of FUD*
I thought I had heard just about everything to know about the famous 1938 radio broadcast of War of the Worlds by Orson Welles and his Mercury Theater, but the March 25 episode of Radio Lab convinced me otherwise.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Web 2.0, Podcast, Social Networking, Social Media, Facebook, Disaster Response, Homeland Security, Emergency, communications, Wireless, Cell Phones, Conferences
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Is Mark Cuban a "Real Blogger"?
Mark Cuban’s Blogging and Newspapers, a Lesson in How Not to Brand and Market is deliberately provocative. It discusses the difference between “real journalists” and “bloggers.” I especially like his quote,
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Publishing, Newspapers, Disaster Response, Emergency
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Old Media Versus Social Media in Emergency Situations
Dave Fleet makes some level-headed comments on emergency use of social media in How Do You Define ‘Media’ In A Crisis? He discusses what the relationship should be between traditional media and social media in a crisis or disaster situation.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Social Networking, Newspapers, Demographics, Social Media, Disaster Response, Homeland Security, Emergency, communications, Local Government, Telecommunications
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Collaborative Decisionmaking in Disaster Response Situations
Professor Murray Turrof recently sent me a draft of a paper that will be presented at the upcoming 5th International ISCRAM Conference in Washington DC in May of 2008.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Governance, Collaboration, Social Networking, Expertise Management, Social Media, Disaster Response, Homeland Security, Emergency, Definitions
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Appropriate Technology, Mobile Web Access, and Developing Countries
Nathan Eagle’s The Mobile Web is NOT helping the Developing World… and what we can do about it provides food for thought for those who believe that web access in developing countries — generally thought to be a good thing — will happen automatically.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Google, Disaster Response, Mobility, Emergency, communications, GUI, Telecommunications, Cell Phones, Developing Countries
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UCLA and MySpace Team Up for Emergency Communications
I recently interviewed UCLA graduate student Sara Cohen (see picture) about an important project she has initiated: establishing an official system whereby UCLA will use a special pre-established MySpace page in the event of an emergency to communicate with students, faculty, community, and parents.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Social Networking, Social Media, Disaster Response, Emergency, Virginia Tech, MySpace, UCLA
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Bill Would Force Colleges to be Copyright Cops or Lose Federal Aid
According to Eric Bangeman at Arts Technica, a New bill would punish colleges and students who don’t become copyright cops.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Digital Rights Management (DRM), Copyright, Piracy, Social Networking, Social Media, Disaster Response, Homeland Security, Emergency, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Corruption
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What I'm Learning About Applying Social Media to Disaster Response
I’ve been researching applications of social media and social networking in local disaster response. Here are some of the things I’ve found.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Google, Social Networking, Expertise Management, Social Media, Facebook, Disaster Response, Adoption, Homeland Security, Mobility, Strategy, Emergency, communications, 700 MHz, Social Network Portability, Cell Phones, OpenSocial
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Potential Applications of Social Media and Social Networking in Local Disaster Response
People use the tools available to them when a crisis hits. Increasingly these tools include blogs, text messaging, and social networking systems such as Facebook. The use of such communication tools in disaster and emergency situations is evidence of an obvious fact: the people most involved in an emergency are going to communicate about it. The question is, how can those in an official capacity take advantage of these communication channels?
Dennis D. McDonald
in Management Tools, Blogging, Social Networking, Expertise Management, Tagging, Social Media, Technology, Disaster Response, Homeland Security, Emergency, Telecommunications
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