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Fast, Perfect, and Cheap Disaster Response
"The federal government is a support role. So if you think FEMA responds to disasters or that we're in charge, first of all, we're never in charge, we're always in support, and and we work for a lot of different folks."
FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate delivers a great TED talk on the federal role in disasters, what we're doing wrong when we respond to them, »read more
Are You an Emergency Manager? Why You Need Social Media (and it needs you)
A new article from USA Today takes another look at how emergency management officials are using social media. We've seen these before, but each one adds new evidence to this simple idea:
If you're working in emergency management and NOT using social media, you're hampering your ability to do you job.
This study from the Red Cross showed how much people, »read more
Tags: case study, emergency services, technology
Amazing Tsunami Photos (Japan)
Incredible collection of tsunami/quake/nuclear reactor photos gathered by the Boston Globe.
Perhaps the most troubling part of this? That a massive wall of water dropping large ships into neighborhoods and houses into the sea might not be the worst of it. Hope those nuclear engineers are lucky and we're all fortunate.
The Big Picture, Japan: Earthquake, »read moreTags: disasters, emergency services, tsunamis
Horrible and Terrifying (Japanese Tsunami)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4w27IczOTk
Wow. If you live anywhere near the ocean and this doesn't scare you, it probably should., »read more
Tags: emergency services, hazard identification, planning, video
Comprehensive (and Free!) Emergency Management Outreach Toolkit
. . . and when I say "comprehensive," I mean "comprehensive."
Ready.gov has come out with an emergency preparedness outreach plan they're calling Resolve to be Ready in 2011, and it includes everything from press releases, newsletters, and links to videos to (are you ready for this?) tweets that you can cut and paste to your twitter account.
Did I mention, »read moreBest Practices for Effective Hurricane Communication
Louisiana State University has released a great brochure on best practices for communicating about hurricane risks. It's short, simple, and it makes sense. Here's the meat of it, broken down by audience:
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
Be Proactive in Educating the Public: Gaining compliance during a hurricane requires year-round efforts. Waiting until the storms hit, »read moreTags: case study, emergency services, publications, research, training & outreach, weather & climate
Why and How Businesses (and Municipalities) can Prepare for Disasters
The folks over at the Education Disaster Education Network (EDEN) have come up with a brief video explaining why it's so critical that businesses develop a business continuity and disaster preparedness plan. Easy enough to translate most of it for municipal offices/departments, too.
Worth a quick watch, and a good outreach tool you can use to help your, »read more
Tags: emergency services, Insurance, planning, training & outreach, video
An Argument for Not Returning to Normal [Editorial]
An interesting editorial by Global Ethics professor Tom Sorell on why our natural post-disaster instinct to return things to normal is so often exactly the wrong response, and why we instead ought to work to "usher in discontinuity."
The problem with returning to "normal" is obvious: we're often returning to the same conditions that put the people and/or, »read more
Tags: adaptation & mitigation, editorial, emergency services, funding & assistance, planning
Facebook vs Twitter: Which to Use for What in Emergency Management
Another good post from John Solomon over at In Case of Emergency, Read Blog. Here, he's looking at how emergency management professionals use the two most popular social networking tools, Facebook and Twitter. In his interviews, he discovers that the two are NOT interchangeable.
It turns out that in most cases the two services are being utilized in, »read moreIdeas on How to Engage Your Businesses in Emergency Preparedness
John Solomon, author of "In Case Of Emergency, Read Blog" has written an interesting and compelling editorial arguing that governments at all levels need to work harder to engage the business community in disaster preparedness. He says:
Government citizen preparedness campaigns over the past few years have raised awareness but not significantly enough to, »read moreTags: editorial, emergency services, technology, training & outreach
