Tag Archives: social media

Your department’s website still needs to be the bedrock for your Internet presence, but with Web 2.0 there is so much more. Let’s take a look at some of the tools in the toolbox, shall we?

By choosing to use social media tools to engage the stakeholders in its community in developing the Community Risk Reduction plan, Cutting Edge County is giving those same stakeholders an opportunity to become skilled and practiced in their use.

The emergency management community has only just begun to utilize social media networks to capture the collective knowledge of the public during natural disasters and other emergencies to direct response and save lives. But to do this effectively and efficiently your organization and community need a social media strategy. Merely adding a Twitter or RSS feed to your emergency management plan is not a strategy.

The short "conversation thread" that follows is illustrative of how Fire & EMS leaders can become more connected—if we make the effort—and better positioned to inform, educate, and influence current and future Fire & EMS leaders. Until I hear otherwise, I'm "staking a claim" and calling this Thought Leadership Media, or TL Media for short.