Monthly Archives: February 2012

New workshops in Birmingham, Cardiff, Exeter and London now booking

Due to popular demand we’ve added some more workshops on social media for emergency planning and resilience. They suit communications staff from Category One Responders with warning and informing responsibilities as well as emergency planning staff with an interest in

Posted in crisis comms, Emergency Planners

Southsidecops: a nice case study in local policing on twitter

View Larger Map Social media is beginning to prove its worth in community engagement roles across public services. Some police services have had locally-based accounts for some time (notably the Greater Manchester and West Midlands forces). West Mercia are just

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Posted in crisis comms, Emergency Planners, SMEM, Warning and informing

The power of the picture

I was chairing a conference the other day: EPIC Social Media South West. One of the speakers was the excellent Dan Slee. He mentioned many interesting and useful things including the reminder that images work much more effectively on twitter

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Posted in Corporate Comms, crisis comms, Emergency Planners, Incident Management, SMEM, Social Media, Warning and informing

Google starts making emergency alerts more useful

Google’s philanthropic arm Google.org has just launched a new service: Google Public Alerts Essentially they’ve put public warning messages from a number of US Federal bodies on a map. This is the start of something exciting. Right now the fact

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Posted in crisis comms, Emergency Planners, Policy Debates, SMEM, Social Media, Warning and informing
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