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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008Since my twin mantras for emergency information are:
real-time sharing among the public
and location-based information
… Echo My Place could really be an important development for real-time sharing of info in emergencies!
The Carbon Project, a MA firm, is working on a new P2P application, Echo MyPlace, that “lets you share location-based information about your neighborhood and […]
My bet: growing smartphone use will have dramatic impact on disaster response
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008Smartphones now account for 10% of all cell phone sales, according to research released Monday at the  Smartphone Summit in Vegas (and their sales are about to overtake those for laptops).When that happens, I’m predicting that, among the huge changes having data storage with you at all times will mean, will include major differences for disaster management […]
Look to disaster management for Enterprise 2.0 inspiration
Monday, March 24th, 2008I’m in DC today, and tomorrow will be speaking at the Santa Fe Institute’s “Decisions 2.0: Distributed Decision-making” seminar.
Since I won’t have a chance to blog tomorrow, here’s my news release about my speech, will will focus on successful disaster management strategies as a model for organizations that are considering Web 2.o strategies to empower […]
Back, with a request for your ideas on smart emergency communication tips!
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008Hi. Sorry I’ve been hors de combat for the past few weeks: my father-in-law’s quite ill, which has caused a lot of perturbations on the home front (prayers and good thoughts gratefully received!), while — on a more positive note — I’ve also been caught up in the early phases of planning what I […]
Northern Illinois U shooting: better, but authorities still don’t get it right
Friday, February 15th, 2008Just heard CNN’s legal expert say that no one could fault Northern Illinois University’s handling of emergency communications during and after the shooting yesterday.
I can: they did better than VA Tech authorities, but still not enough.
According to this story, cell phones were jammed, and students couldn’t call out or their parents call in — […]
My Network World op-ed: business benefits of data visualization
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008Ooops! Got so caught up in politics and family stuff that I didn’t realize my op-ed on the business benefits of data visualization ran last week in Network World’s online edition.
As the title (”Data visualization: the under-appreciated Web 2.0 tool”) suggests with all the subtlety of a sledge hammer, I believe data visualization is both […]
Google Palimpsest: critical step toward transparent government!
Thursday, January 31st, 2008Yikes! I’ve been Twittering and sending e-mails about Google Research’s new Palimpsest service (which hasn’t been formally announced, but which Wired wrote about recently, citing sources within Google), but just realized I hadn’t blogged about it!
Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!
IMHO, this could be the critical link in achieving the dream I discussed in my […]
More use of mobile social net apps predicted: implications for emergencies
Monday, January 28th, 2008According to Fierce Wireless (citing a Forrester report), mobile social network applications will become much more widespread in Europe this year. Given our perennial lag time in adopting anything cell-phone wise, this probably means such expanded use will probably happen in the US in several years.
If so, it will give a real boost to the […]
Google.org funds emergency program that sounds very familiar…
Thursday, January 17th, 2008Tip o’ the hat to David Jara of Motorola for tipping me off about this!
News today that Google.org, Google’s charitable wing (”Google.org aspires to use the power of information and technology to address the global challenges of our age: climate change, poverty and emerging disease”) will give grants totaling $5 million to fund Innovative […]
That’s kewl: Obama says he wants exec. branch transparency
Thursday, January 10th, 2008OK — I’ll have to chat up the Obama issues folks: ran across a Wired piece about his visit to the Googleplex last fall, when, among other parts of his technology agenda, he told them he’s interested in “.. Implementation of new tools and processes to bring more transparency to the executive branch.” Better […]
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