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Thursday, May 1st, 2008The latest example of texting’s potential in emergencies is this news item about a teen who was home because of illness when two intruders entered her house. She texted her mom, who then alerted 911 and drove home (not too smart on mom’s part to physically challenge the perps instead of waiting for cops, but […]
Small is beautiful: Twitter your way out of foreign jail!
Saturday, April 26th, 2008This blog has certainly suffered since I began my infatuation with the lil’ microblogging phenom, Twitter (hmm, maybe I should use ManyEyes to graph the inverse relationship between the number of recent “tweets” to recent blog posts…).
It’s at least partially because I like to really put some serious effort into each post on this […]
Check John Solomon’s new preparedness blog
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Aside from his deplorable choice of baseball teams to follow (BTW, shouldn’t the “Yankees” be the “Nieuwe Amsterdams” or the “Pieter Minuet Culturally-Insensitive Thieves Who Stole Manhattan” and Yankees should be the name of our local, New England-based lads?), John Solom0n is a great guy:
an esteemed pundit since the age of 13
an outstanding reporter
and is […]
Boston held a “planned disaster” Monday
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Amidst all the historical reenactments, Sox game (lookin’ good, boys!), and Boston Marathon, authorities also scheduled a major disaster drill in the Hub of the Universe Monday.Whoa! Was that a case of bad planning, or what? With hundred of thousands of people already milling about, weren’t the officials, as it were, looking for a disaster?
Nope.
As […]
Chertoff cyber-security plan: who will fill the post?
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008In general, I’m in support of Sec. Chertoff’s new cyber-security plan: let’s not forget that cyber-threats can be of all stripes (terrorists, organized crime, state-sponsored groups, or individual hackers), that 85% of our critical infrastructure is in private hands (hence his call for coordination with the private sector, and that the threats range from the […]
FCC & cellphone carriers get it! Targeted wireless alerts!
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008USA Today reports that the FCC may approve, as early as today, the technical standards for a nationwide system that would send text messages to cellphones and other wireless devices whenever there’s an emergency. The system could be operational by 2010, and could be used for terrorism, weather, or child abduction alerts.
That’s great: finally […]
This could really be neat: Echo MyPlace for sharing
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 […]
Spring’s here, so put some ICE in your cell phone
Friday, March 21st, 2008I know you’ve all been waiting with bated breath, so the wait is over: it’s time for another “21st century disaster tip you WON’T hear from officials.”It ain’t feelin’ like Spring here in the Hub of the Universe today — cold and with high winds — but the calendar says it’s Spring, so that means […]
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