leveraging your social network during an emergency
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Leveraging your social network during an emergency. Presented by Sabra Schneider [email protected]. Today we will consider. Establishing voice, credibility and connection before the emergency How/when to release the message, why more is better - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Today we will consider Establishing voice, credibility and connection
before the emergency
How/when to release the message, why more is better
Staffing social media, before during and after the crisis
Tools and website integration
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Houston Chronicle and Ike
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Connect before the crisis
Establish the technical connections (what is RSS feeding, be efficient)
Create effective and well trained work teams
Connect with the public
Don’t forget about your media partners
Leverage the wisdom of the crowd
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Plan before the crisis
Establish the technical pieces
Create effective and well trained work teams
Connect with the public
Don’t forget about your media partners
Leverage the wisdom of the crowd
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Green River Flood
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Test and ask
Plan to test the network and get it started early
Who will be in charge of social media at your JIC? (Hint, can’t be just one person.)
Ask the public for input
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I asked Twitter… “Why should
govt. entities use Twitter?”
Within 5 mins we had the following responses:
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Trusted source
Establish your credibility and critical mass before the crisis
Keep the communication two-way Use information from the public even with
caveats, for example “Residents reporting ice/snow in Issaquah, what are conditions in your neighborhood?”
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Share often and openly
Public expects up to the minute current information
They will turn elsewhere if they don’t get it 10 levels of approval won’t work It’s not always a press release One update should feed all social networks
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Case study:KC Votes Goals: To showcase final
poll election. To create a new media message about transparency, better systems and voter involvement.
Used Twitter, Flickr, blog, YouTube, kingcounty.gov and most importantly: VOTERS
Why and how? Used flickr, blog and code to create automatic galleries easy to deploy from the field.
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Four (social) stages Four stages of emergency planning: mitigation,
preparedness,response, recovery Use your social networks to address all three not
just the response phase The public will expect current, frequent and open updates
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Staffing the updates Build into JIC staff plan Should be cross trained for
social media plus (press calls, news releases, other communications functions)
Website updates just as important
Who is listening?
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Smart tools
bit.ly or other URL shortener Tweet deck Use the RSS feeds (site, facebook etc) Flickr, twitter, facebook, blogs, YouTube or
Vimeo (top tools for a crisis)
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Who is the credible source? Government? Emergency
organizations? News organizations If your agency isn’t the
source, someone else will fill the gap.
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Above all, do somethingSabra Schneider
on twitter twitter.com/
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