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Potential Applications of Social Media and Social Networking in Local Disaster Response

Potential Applications of Social Media and Social Networking in Local Disaster Response

Dennis D. McDonald
Blogging, Disaster Response, Emergency, Expertise Management, Homeland Security, Local, Management Tools, , , Tagging, Technology, Telecommunications
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?
Apple, iPods, and Personal Data Portability

Apple, iPods, and Personal Data Portability

Dennis D. McDonald
Apple, Copyright, Identity, Personal Data Ownership, , , , Web 2.0, iPod, iTunes
I've been busy lately. My blogging has suffered. I've tried to update my blog's "daily notes" (located on my home page and archived here) but that's about it. I'm working offline on some longer white papers, I'm starting a new client project next week, I've been involved in a non-stop series of proposals and statements of work, and I've had to keep my plants watered during the drought here on the U.S. East Coast. Meanwhile, there are some really interesting "tech" things going on.
School Communications & Emergency Response: What are the Implications for Social Media?

School Communications & Emergency Response: What are the Implications for Social Media?

Dennis D. McDonald
Best Practices, Disaster Response, Emergency, Homeland Security, Policy, , , communications, eGovernment, Security, Communications
I’ve been reading documents from a page of links relevant to emergency planning for schools that is maintained by the Texas A&M University’s Integrative Center for Homeland Security. According to the Center’s blog, the list was started in response to the Virginia Tech shooting. I’m looking for information on the implications of using social media and social networking systems as part of the “mix” of communication tools that are relevant in an emergency.
More Thoughts on Developing a Social Network "Portable Relationship Map" Standard

More Thoughts on Developing a Social Network "Portable Relationship Map" Standard

Dennis D. McDonald
Definitions, Identity, Personal Data Ownership, Privacy, , , Standards, Web 2.0
A couple of days ago I posted Do We Need “Portable Relationship Maps” for Social Networks? There I expressed some skepticism about the feasibility of developing a standard for mapping social and professional relationships, over and above basic personal description or identity data, that could be portable between social networking systems.

Why Google Scholar Adding Elsevier "ScienceDirect" Data is Significant

Dennis D. McDonald
Associations, Elsevier, Google, Industry Analysis, Journals, ,
This deal between Elsevier and Google may be further evidence of how disruptive the web has become to traditional publishing, research institutions, and professional membership associations. Web access and the proliferation of systems offering collaboration opportunities via social media and social networking are forcing management to make tough decisions about how much to give away for free and how much to restrict to paying customers.
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