Building a social media function ellefritz - social techBrian Ellefritz
Building a social media function at your company can be divided into stages, each with it's own characteristics, challenges and opportunities. Presented at the MediaPost SocialTech 2010 conference in San Jose by Brian Ellefritz of SAP.
Natacha Poggio (Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Design, Hartford Art School) gave a talk at the first TEDx organized in Hartford, Connecticut: TEDx Bushnell Park, on June 22, 2013. #TEDxBushnellPark celebrated the work being done in greater Hartford to improve communities and civic spaces in both large and small ways. Natacha Poggio's presentation “Helping Communities Thrive” described the collaborative and multidisciplinary nature of the projects she has developed along with her Design Global Change students —such as a nonviolence mural on Albany Ave in downtown Hartford, and also expanded on the projects developed in India with Engineers Without Borders students from the College of Engineering, Technology and Architecture (CETA) at the University of Hartford.
A Dynamic Delphi Process Utilizing a Modified Thurstone Scaling Method: Colla...Connie White
In an extreme event or major disaster, very often there are both alternative actions that might be considered and far more requests for actions than can be executed immediately. The relative desirability of each option for action could be a collaborative expression of a significant number of emergency managers and experts trying to manage the most desirable alternatives at any given time, in real time. Delphi characteristics can satisfy these needs given that anyone can vote or change their vote on any two options, and voting and scaling are used to promote a group understanding. Further utilized with Thurstone’s Law of Comparative Judgment, a group decision or the range of acceptability a group is willing to consent to, can be calculated and utilized as a means of producing the best decision. A ubiquitous system for expeditious real-time decision making by large virtual teams in emergency
response environments is described.
Disaster Management Systems: Building Capacity for Developing Countries and ...Connie White
Some societies are more disaster prone than others due to their geographic location and the benefits provided by it. Man has co-existed in this sort of high risk/high return relationship with mother nature throughout history. Poorer societies tend to pay a higher price both in lives taken and damage – left with many secondary and equally devastating disasters that are sure to come. We know that for every $1 USD put into preventative measures, we save ~$7 that would have gone into post-disaster recovery and rebuilding efforts. There are many international agencies working to support a variety of needs in these grief stricken areas to help them build capacity and to help these societies better prepare for and respond to the disasters they will face. These efforts are guided by the Millennium Project Goals outlined in 2000. A lot has changed since then with respect to technology, mobile devices and humanitarianism. The objective of this paper is exploit how current efforts are creating capacity on the individual, organizational and 'enabling environment' levels. This paper explores the notion that a more concerted effort can be made at building Information and Communication Disaster Management Capacity in developing countries who are most susceptible due to proximity and to a lack of funds. A 'proof of concept' is provided
A Real Time Online Delphi Decision System, V 2.0: Crisis Management Support d...Connie White
The Delphi Decision Maker system has been designed to support the decision making needs of crisis managers, considering factors such as stress, time pressure, information overload, and uncertainty. It has been built as a module for the Sahana Disaster Management system, a free and open source system. The Design Science research paradigm was used in an iterative development process. Triangulation was employed in the evaluation, analyzing the system against the research questions using both qualitative and quantitative statistics as well as proof of concept. Modifications need to be made for real world use. A second version of the system is under development. Research findings and future research are outlined in this work in progress.
Building a social media function ellefritz - social techBrian Ellefritz
Building a social media function at your company can be divided into stages, each with it's own characteristics, challenges and opportunities. Presented at the MediaPost SocialTech 2010 conference in San Jose by Brian Ellefritz of SAP.
Natacha Poggio (Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Design, Hartford Art School) gave a talk at the first TEDx organized in Hartford, Connecticut: TEDx Bushnell Park, on June 22, 2013. #TEDxBushnellPark celebrated the work being done in greater Hartford to improve communities and civic spaces in both large and small ways. Natacha Poggio's presentation “Helping Communities Thrive” described the collaborative and multidisciplinary nature of the projects she has developed along with her Design Global Change students —such as a nonviolence mural on Albany Ave in downtown Hartford, and also expanded on the projects developed in India with Engineers Without Borders students from the College of Engineering, Technology and Architecture (CETA) at the University of Hartford.
A Dynamic Delphi Process Utilizing a Modified Thurstone Scaling Method: Colla...Connie White
In an extreme event or major disaster, very often there are both alternative actions that might be considered and far more requests for actions than can be executed immediately. The relative desirability of each option for action could be a collaborative expression of a significant number of emergency managers and experts trying to manage the most desirable alternatives at any given time, in real time. Delphi characteristics can satisfy these needs given that anyone can vote or change their vote on any two options, and voting and scaling are used to promote a group understanding. Further utilized with Thurstone’s Law of Comparative Judgment, a group decision or the range of acceptability a group is willing to consent to, can be calculated and utilized as a means of producing the best decision. A ubiquitous system for expeditious real-time decision making by large virtual teams in emergency
response environments is described.
Disaster Management Systems: Building Capacity for Developing Countries and ...Connie White
Some societies are more disaster prone than others due to their geographic location and the benefits provided by it. Man has co-existed in this sort of high risk/high return relationship with mother nature throughout history. Poorer societies tend to pay a higher price both in lives taken and damage – left with many secondary and equally devastating disasters that are sure to come. We know that for every $1 USD put into preventative measures, we save ~$7 that would have gone into post-disaster recovery and rebuilding efforts. There are many international agencies working to support a variety of needs in these grief stricken areas to help them build capacity and to help these societies better prepare for and respond to the disasters they will face. These efforts are guided by the Millennium Project Goals outlined in 2000. A lot has changed since then with respect to technology, mobile devices and humanitarianism. The objective of this paper is exploit how current efforts are creating capacity on the individual, organizational and 'enabling environment' levels. This paper explores the notion that a more concerted effort can be made at building Information and Communication Disaster Management Capacity in developing countries who are most susceptible due to proximity and to a lack of funds. A 'proof of concept' is provided
A Real Time Online Delphi Decision System, V 2.0: Crisis Management Support d...Connie White
The Delphi Decision Maker system has been designed to support the decision making needs of crisis managers, considering factors such as stress, time pressure, information overload, and uncertainty. It has been built as a module for the Sahana Disaster Management system, a free and open source system. The Design Science research paradigm was used in an iterative development process. Triangulation was employed in the evaluation, analyzing the system against the research questions using both qualitative and quantitative statistics as well as proof of concept. Modifications need to be made for real world use. A second version of the system is under development. Research findings and future research are outlined in this work in progress.