If you are trying to figure out social media and how it is changing everything, including emergency management preparedness, response and recovery (I still need to figure out the mitigation link). Check out the video on how Twitter and other devices will change history.
Think situational awareness, rumor control, shelter locations, damage estimates, building trust with a far flung group of people, reduced communications capabilities yet your message getting through...the list goes on!
I picked this up from Homeland Security Watch when Bill Cumming referred me to the site and the link.
Homeland security and the new media
Iran is not the only place where social media challenges professional entrainment (a word which, in this context, refers to expert certainty about the right way to do something).
Clay Shirky’s 17 minute video on TED (available here) illustrates how the loose collaboration enabled by new media applications (collectively known — at least for a few more days — as Web 2.0 ) can change the way homeland security strategy evolves.
The video is not directly about homeland security. Instead, you get a quick tour of how collaborative media undercuts top down control of strategic communication. The implication for homeland security (not just for DHS, but for all of homeland security) is related to what I wrote about in “Stakeholders in the process of our protection”
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