Social Media for Natural Disaster Response and Recovery

Yesterday I was one of about 35 who received instruction for Social Media for Natural Disaster Response and Recovery, taught at the Arizona State Joint Information Center at Papago Military Reservation in Phoenix. There was a pre-test (I scored an 80) and a post-test (I scored 100).


We learned that some of the attributes and objectives of social media include:

- Get message out faster

- Reach more people through other communication channel

- Relatively low operating costs

- Reach people via mobile devices

- Instant, high scalable form of communication

- Direct from the source


This is a link to FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate's thoughts about the importance of social media: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqkRx0vpDeI&feature=youtu.be