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Small is beautiful: Twitter your way out of foreign jail!

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

This 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, 2008

Aside 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, 2008

Amidst 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 […]

Boston held a “planned disaster” Monday

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Amidst 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, 2008

In 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, 2008

USA 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 […]

Look to disaster management for Enterprise 2.0 inspiration

Monday, March 24th, 2008

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Organizations considering Web 2.0 strategies should look to disaster management for inspiration
need to innovate, be creative, and empower individuals put disaster management in forefront of change
Washington, DC., March 25, 2008 — Disaster management and homeland security consultant W. David […]

Look to disaster management for Enterprise 2.0 inspiration

Monday, March 24th, 2008

I’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 […]

Today’s sorry anniversary: Operation Rolling Blunder

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

OK, the subprime lender debacle can’t be tied to it (other than the general problem of CEO hubris, whether the organization in question is the US Government or Countrywide Financial).  However, I’m hard-pressed to think of any other major problem in the US right now, from lousy healthcare for returning vets to underfunding of infrastructure […]

Back, with a request for your ideas on smart emergency communication tips!

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Hi. 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 […]

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