Social Media and Emergency Management: Hybrid 2.0?
Below is a blog first posted by Sara Estes Cohen, MPP, ABCP, on GovLoop. For the past three years, I’ve been working in emergency management and social media. As I’ve been focused on leveraging social...
View ArticleTechnology Can Reduce Losses from Wildfires: Suppression (Part I)
As the typical peak of wildfire season approaches on the calendar, I’ve been thinking about the continual search for technological solutions for reducing losses from wildfires. This search has been...
View ArticleTechnology Can Save Lives in Wildfires: Remote Sensing (Part II)
In the first blog of this series, I suggested that changing the paradigm of delivering a firefighter to a wildfire-threatened home would a be good application of several technologies – fire suppression...
View ArticlePart 2: Hybrid 2.0 – Leveraging Citizen Engagement for Emergency...
In my previous blog post, Hybrid 2.0 – How to leverage social media for emergency management and response, I discussed two existing models for the use of social media in open government: - For use in...
View ArticleTechnology Provides Consistency in Reducing Wildfire Losses: Codes and...
The use of codes and standards may not readily come to mind as a technological solution, but the development of sound codes and ordinances is founded on science and technology. In the case of...
View ArticleTechnology Can Promote Cooperation: Attracting and Engaging Non-Traditional...
Everyone is likely familiar with the phrase “usual suspects.” These are the ones the TV cops round up following a heinous crime because the detectives are familiar with their escapades. But the term...
View ArticleTechnologies Can Work Best Only in the Right Combination (Part V)
Thinking about technology and our expectations for their application, it seems to me that Americans look for the one solution – the one thing that we can use (no, not use, BUY) that will solve whatever...
View ArticleVirtual USA – A Profound Impact
Virtual USA received an important vote of support from a multidisciplinary group of practitioners from around the country yesterday when Charles Werner, Charlottesville Fire Chief and Strategic...
View ArticleSocial Media as a Sensor – Leveraging Crowd-Sourced Data for Early Warning...
Co-authored with Bill Hyjek A recent story published on Wired.com discussed the findings of group of researchers at the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing who developed a method for...
View ArticleMaking Sense of Twitter – the Uber Hashtag
I was recently inspired after reading a tweet posted by Hal Grieb, who shared a link to an article on how to communicate a snow event. To ensure the tweet was seen by all potentially interested...
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