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Entries in Homeland Security (15)
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 Networking and Elsevier's "Grand Challenge" for Knowledge Enhancement in the Life Sciences
Netherlands-based mega-publisher (and former employer) Elsevier BV has issued a grand challenge:
Dennis D. McDonald
in Governance, Social Networking, Publishing, Knowledge Management, Expertise Management, Peer Review, Journals, Social Media, Content Management, Homeland Security, Emergency, Libraries, MySpace, DataPortability, R&D Management, Knowledge Transfer, Internet
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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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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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The "Who" and "What" of Technological Illiteracy
Definitely worth listening to is Command Line’s December 19 podcast technological illiteracy among our leaders. His theme: we need to do something about the lack of knowledge our leaders have of how technology operates and impacts our lives.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Privacy, Governance, Ethics, Security, Technology, Homeland Security, Conservation, Energy, Technological Literacy
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Using Social Networking to Support Local Energy Management and Conservation
Thanks to Brian Magierski via a Twitter message I found out about a ZDNet video interview with Pat Lawicki, the CIO of PG&E in San Francisco. Pat is a former client of mine from when she was the CIO at the energy utility NiSource.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Collaboration, Social Networking, Social Media, Homeland Security, Conservation, Energy
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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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