The Power of Social Media

May 15, 2013 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on The Power of Social Media

The Disaster 2.0 team recently hosted the second Masterclass at the Federation of Enterprises in Belgium to discuss the role of social media and web technologies in providing information during disasters. Disaster 2.0 is a two-year project exploring how EU governments currently and can potentially use web 2.0 applications and semantic technologies in disaster response. This interesting news was brought to our attention by finchannel.com in their article titled, “Disaster information: the use of social media and semantic technologies.”

This two-day event included emergency management experts and researchers from across Europe. Presenters shared experiences on using social media and other technologies during disaster situations. The class addressed the positive impact that social media can have in communicating during a disaster situation, as well as the challenges. One example mentioned was the variety of efforts during the Japan earthquake, which had a mix of positive results and opportunities to learn.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.