A videotaped interview of four government employees responsible for handling public information functions after the August 24, 2014 Napa, California earthquake reveals real challenges and inherent conflicts between quickly informing the public, fulfilling incident command responsibilities and ensuring the safety ...
Read More »Deafening Silence In Ferguson
Over the past two days I’ve closely followed the civil unrest in the small enclave of Ferguson, Missouri, a small suburb outside of St. Louis. A Ferguson police officer shot and killed a young African American male after some type ...
Read More »My Trip Across The Pond
My wife and I recently celebrated our 30 year wedding anniversary with a trip to Ireland. To say it was an unbelievably fun trip would be an understatement. I won’t bore you with the details, but instead will summarize with ...
Read More »Get Going
Government agencies don’t hold a candle to big companies selling products. Case in point, this article. Today, large corporations are spending millions on social media advertising strategies. But, with this expenditure comes a price…time. As the article notes, it can ...
Read More »US Air Augers In
Spending all day on the road robbed me of an opportunity yesterday to compete with half the planet in coming up with the wittiest one liners about @USAirways epic NSFW picture posted on their Twitter feed. Mashable posted some of ...
Read More »Is It Time for SMindshield Surveys?
Southern California received another wakeup call last week, albeit a minor one, when the La Hambra earthquake rattled the LA basin. Immediately thereafter, the LAFD implemented their earthquake protocol, and began touring their first in areas via pre-designated routes to ...
Read More »It’s Time For DEVO
By now most folks have heard of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology, commonly called “drones”, and their military use in hunting down Middle East terrorists and tracking cross-border drug smugglers. More recently, Amazon, Netflix and other mail order companies began ...
Read More »Ask Jimmy Kimmel
How many times have you read a feel good story or viewed epic videos and pictures on Facebook or Twitter that put a lump in your throat, brought a tear to your eye, twanged your revenge gene, or made you ...
Read More »Where’s Waldo?
You are the captain of Engine 3, assigned as a RIT crew standing by a rip snortin’ house fire. You and your team were initially disappointed to hear the IC’s assignment, knowing full well you would have been first- in ...
Read More »Calling 911in 2025
Imagine it is October 29, 2025. You are sitting up in bed watching a streaming video through your Google Glasses +8 while also checking your alma mater’s basketball scores. Your life partner suddenly turns to you, throws off her Google ...
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