Comments on: Blogs as Disaster or Emergency Communication Tool http://www.stc-access.org/2008/09/04/blogs-as-disaster-or-emergency-communication-tool/ A Blog About Accessibility and Technical Communication Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:44:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Lori Gillen http://www.stc-access.org/2008/09/04/blogs-as-disaster-or-emergency-communication-tool/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Lori Gillen Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:22:21 +0000 http://www.stc-access.org/?p=392#comment-39 I am just getting around to responding to this message. Lorelle, I found your information very helpful and am going to pass the link to your entry about blogs as a disaster/emergency communication tool to the American Red Cross of Massachusetts Bay, Community Disaster Education outreach group. I think they will find your information very useful too. The one thought that kept coming up in my head as I read your blog entry was that blogs cannot work when there are power outages (unless someone has a generator) and there are usually so many power outages following disasters. So a blog cannot be the only tool used for communication. The other thought that crossed my mind is that the information in blogs can be instrumental for use retrospectively, in a "lessons learned" capacity and as research for future planning. Thank you again for sharing your information with our group. I am just getting around to responding to this message. Lorelle, I found your information very helpful and am going to pass the link to your entry about blogs as a disaster/emergency communication tool to the American Red Cross of Massachusetts Bay, Community Disaster Education outreach group. I think they will find your information very useful too.

The one thought that kept coming up in my head as I read your blog entry was that blogs cannot work when there are power outages (unless someone has a generator) and there are usually so many power outages following disasters. So a blog cannot be the only tool used for communication.

The other thought that crossed my mind is that the information in blogs can be instrumental for use retrospectively, in a “lessons learned” capacity and as research for future planning.

Thank you again for sharing your information with our group.

]]> By: Lorelle http://www.stc-access.org/2008/09/04/blogs-as-disaster-or-emergency-communication-tool/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Lorelle Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:40:05 +0000 http://www.stc-access.org/?p=392#comment-21 Thank you for the kind words, and you are right. We have a lot to learn about how social media works, and can work for us in an emergency. It's great when technology will work for us, not against us. :D Thank you for the kind words, and you are right. We have a lot to learn about how social media works, and can work for us in an emergency. It’s great when technology will work for us, not against us. :D

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