our changing world
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Our Changing World. James Garrow Philadelphia Department of Public Health. except. Okay Jim, now you've lost me. Are things changing, or not?. can't complain about: disasters people media. disasters = people = social media. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Our Changing World
James GarrowPhiladelphia Department of Public Health
except
Okay Jim,now you've lost me.
Are things changing,
or not?
can't complain about:
•disasters•people•media
disasters=
people=
social media
• 56% of Americans have a profile on a social media network
• 22% of Americans use social networking sites "several" times per day
• 53% of Americans over 65 use the internet
• The average Facebook user spends more than 400 minutes per month on the site
• Twitter users post more than 175 million tweets per day
• More than 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every 24 seconds
businessinsider.com
media and social media
media and social media
i offer no answers,only interesting
anecdotes
public health
First Pandemic of the 21st Century
• CDC really began experimenting
• Masking videos
• Twitter accounts
• Facebook Pages
• Push for states and locals to use
The Blog Post
• CDC blog post on "zombie preparedness"
• One million page views in four days
• More than $3M in earned media coverage
• Cost? What cost? $87
emergency management
Craig Fugate
• Survivors not victims
• HUGE proponent of social media use
• San Bruno explosion and fire
LAFD• Rotating PIOs
monitor social media
• Posts all calls that affect the public (road closures, etc.
• Manage two accounts on Twitter, @LAFD and @LAFDtalk
Shadow LakeWildland Fire
• 2011 wildland fire in Oregon
• Federal IMT team assigned
• PIO utilized volunteer VOST team to monitor social media
• VOST team identified concerned citizen, forwarded to PIO
regular citizens
Haitian Earthquake• 7.0 magnitude
• Massive infrastructure damage
• Extreme lack of immediate help
• Haitians utilized social media to locate and request help
• Large scale citizen "crisismapping" effort
JoplinTornadoInfo• EF-5 tornado struck
Joplin, MO
• Nearby citizens set up JoplinTornadoInfo Facebook page to coordinate information
• City of Joplin utilized private Page to distribute official messages
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