Submitted by N8WDU - Kevin on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 04:23
I read a great interview last year on how the Red Cross and the LA Fire Department use twitter for gathering information about an emerging disaster situation. Take a visit to http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/03/social-media-red-cross-lafd.html and watch the short interviews. Brian Humphrey performs a much needed, but often un-staffed, role in disaster response that I call Disaster Intelligence. In our networked age, a tremendous amount of data floods in and can overwhelm the disaster response manager.
