Emergency Management Solutions: Are You Socially Acceptable?
In so doing, lessons were learned on multiple fronts: dictatorships were put on notice that no matter how hard they may try, a wireless Web is tough to contain. YouTube actually smuggled a video of a young woman being shot across the border and uploaded it to the Internet for the world to see. When President Obama said the whole world was watching, CNN knew its network had not broken the story first. As the events unfolded, integrators with perspective realized that the game for emergency communications had just changed in a very fundamental way.
Twitter went from a generational solution to worldwide fame virtually (literally) overnight. In fact, when Twitter was ready to take down systems for a scheduled upgrade during the crisis, it was the White House that “requested” they re-think their schedule. Sometimes it is the unforeseen event that changes the fate of companies, and in this case entire industries. Emergency communications are fundamental. So how do we make emergency communications better and more efficient? We get socially acceptable! Just do a Google search for “Pacific University Oregon Twitter Facebook.” The university is the first to merge those two applications in an emergency management solution. It will not be the last.