This is a presentation showing the value of using social media during emergency situations. Conference http://www.emec-europa.com/

1. 12th October 2011: 14:00 - 14:45 Dr. Connie White Information Technology Solutions for Emergency Management Session Chair – Michael Kay ‘ Social Media for Emergency Management’ #EMEC2011

2. Shift Happens Internet Computers Music Photography/Video Telephone

4. Internet is faster, cheaper and more accessible. http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

5. Computers are faster, cheaper, smaller and do more than ever before! Netbook < $300.00 USD SmartPhone < $200.00 USD

6. How has music changed over the years?

9. How do you take pictures? How are they developed?

10. How many baby pics of you? How many are there of your kids... grandchildren?

11. When you were a child, what did your photo album look like?

14. How have phones changed over the years?

15. Time Line

16. Gmail Call Phone

17. What are the trends? http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/12/tech/main6476743.shtml

18. When was the last time you used a phone booth? Trends -It's simply what's happening.

19. Read a good Kindle lately?

20. When was the last time you wrote a letter and mailed it to someone?

21. What kind of card do you send?

24. What makes Social Media so powerful?

25. How powerful can Social Media be? Ability to Communicate & Share

26. connecting

27. Human Intelligence

30. Craig Fugate - FEMA Full http://www.c-span.org/Events/Senate-Homeland-Security-Hearing-on-Social-Media-as-Disaster-Communications-Tool/10737421355-1/ What can Social Media do for EM? (more here)

33. http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/emergency/hurricane-irene-metrics.pdf

34. Fairfax Emergency Information Blog http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/emergency/blog

35. https://www.facebook.com/fairfaxcounty/

36. http://www.twitter.com/fairfaxcounty

39. How to better “Connect crisis social data with decision makers who can act on it?” Suzy DeFrances, Red Cross

41. Can one person make a difference? The ' Digital ' Volunteer

47. store tweets from 1 or more hastags e.g. #eqnz #canterburyquake to build up a local repo of all relevant tweets

48. be able to reply/retweet to these messages e.g. provide an official response

49. More http://eden.sahanafoundation.org/wiki/BluePrintMessagingModule#Twitter

50. http://www.iscram.org Social Media & Disaster Research Social Media Track

51. http://betanews.com/2011/06/16/92-of-social-network-users-are-on-facebook-just-13-on-twitter/

52. http://www.slideshare.net/web2asia/web2asia-online-social-networks-in-china-presentation

53. What makes Social Media so Powerful?