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Last night,  I finally turned off the New Zealand earthquake information fire hose.  It wasn’t because I had lost interest, but rather I was struggling with filtering relevant and interesting information related to my current interests- rescue efforts, restoration of ...

A quick post on the rapidly evolving earthquake situation in the area around Christchurch, NZ. I’m going to use bullet point format, as this appears to be the format being used by many of the Civil Defense agencies in the ...

I continue to noodle around on the tangled web of integrating social media into the NIMS/ICS environment. After looking at various JIC models and discussions about how emergency agencies are trying to bring SM into to their ICS, I’m starting ...

I participated in several discussions this week related to emergency management/crisis response and SM.  Lots of good ideas about ways to educate the emergency community about best practices integrating  SM into response, and experience using SM in real life.  Mostly ...

A while back I sent a tweet I wanted to suck back out of cyberspace in the worst way.   Now, before you go searching through all of my past tweets, it was  nothing more than a breech of family etiquette, ...

While driving home from work tonight I had a phone interview (hands free of course) with a fellow National Fire Academy classmate who is trying to finish up his last research paper so he can receive his Executive Fire Officer ...

I had coffee with crisis information expert Gerald Baron (@gbaron, www.crisisblogger.com) yesterday. We get together to talk about social media, emergency response and crisis communications.  Gerald  is a local treasure when it comes to best practices in crisis communications.  We ...

Over the past few days I’ve been talking  with fellow emergency response professionals about ways to “box in” social media within the Incident Command Structure (ICS). Our conversations included the Intelligence function, and where it fits in ICS, or doesn’t ...

Dave Pell, a contributor to the Huffington Post, succinctly comments on the role of SM in the evolving Egypt uprising .  The events unfolding in the Middle East seem eerily familiar, and bring back strong memories of the fall of ...

One of my new blog readers asked me to comment on the social media interactions related to the recent Tucson shooting tragedy.  It seemed that within minutes after the obviously deranged gunman was taken down, tweets started flowing.  My observations; ...