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Twitter & the Power of Micro-Blogging in Emergencies

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As time goes by, and get to read more on the Twitter, I thought I would share today a couple of comments on one particular blog post referencing one of those various benefits from such tools, and Twitter in particular, that surely is very powerful not only from a business perspective, but also from a personal / individual one.

Check out it demonstrates that a Web 2.0 application that's in wide use, so many people are already familiar with it and wouldn't have to learn it in a disaster, can easily switch to serving a totally different function in an emergency

  • it solves a serious problem in a simple way

  • it harnesses the power of existing social networks during a disaster.

  • a few smart municipal agencies and relief agencies "get it", and are already capitalizing on Twitter for emergency communication

  • even if other government agencies don't catch on, we the people can use it ourselves, without permission or government support"

    What is really good about David's blog post and sign up and spread the word around through your various social networks. And off you go. Ready to go on with that declarative living of yours and ready to face whatever the emergency and keep those who need to know informed about what is going on. Hopefully, you will never need to make use of such social software tools for such purposes, but, just in case, it will take you about a minute to set things up and sharing David's vodcast with those who you think would benefit from it right away.

    Still think that tools like Twitter do not provide any value to everyone out there? Regardless whether you are on to social software or not, incredibly helpful tips as the one David shared with us a little while ago, can only confirm the penetration that social computing tools can have not only within our day to day work within the Enterprise, but also with our own personal lives.

    Here is the embedded version of the Nancy White and a few other folks have been using to build further up on

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