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Recently a well respected social media crisis communications blogger and tweeter Kim Stephens (@kim26stephens, idisaster 2.0) asked her followers ways to improve the interface between incident command posts (ICPs)  and emergency operations centers (EOCs), and if technology had a solution.  ...

It has been a couple of weeks since my last post. Had a fantastic “unplugged” vacation in Cabo, followed by a week hosting a guest from Northern Ireland.  As a result, I found myself strangely disconnected from the world, at ...

The other night I took a break from work and checked in with my peeps on Twitter, where I quickly found  a ongoing discussion of fire ground radio communications between a couple of my favorite fire tweeters, @garytx and  @thefiretracker2. ...

Call me nuts, but I just accepted an invite to speak at a groundbreaking conference on social media in Southwest Washington, called #140conf .  Going to drive 250 miles to speak for about 10 minutes about the nuts and bolts ...

I just finished reading an excellent post by esteemed colleague Glen Gilmore, a well respected public servant and social media visionary.  I always enjoy reading his stuff. The post, titled “Twitter 911-A Proposal” offered up the concept of mobilizing 911 ...

This week I tweeted my need for some TISM, or “Twitter Initiated Stress Management”.  It was a tongue in cheek comment in reaction to the overwhelmingly sad news coming from Japan, yet had an element of truth that should not ...

The last few days have been epic from an emergency management standpoint.  It is hard to see the pictures and video coming out of Japan. Add 3 exploding nuclear reactor buildings, winter weather conditions and, oh yeah, a volcano and ...

Yesterday was likely one of those days where 10 years from now you will remember where you were when (fill in the blank).  I had gone to bed early Thursday night after enduring four days of advanced Incident Commander instruction ...

Yesterday I started a week long FEMA class for Incident Commanders.  The curriculum is designed to provide detailed position specific education for those of us charged with organizing chaos.  The two instructors have extensive ICS pedigrees, and likely have forgotten more than ...

Lots of discussion lately about ways to integrate SM into situational awareness.  Most of the focus seems to be on where to put people within the EOC/ICS structure to facilitate communication and information sharing between ICS units.  That’s all well ...