Comments on: Twitter Feed Offers Nice Window On Activities, Personality Of FEMA Director-Nominee Fugate

By: FEMA Administrator Fugate ‘Tweets’ His Way To Washington For Confirmation Preparations

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:20:16 +0000

[...] wrote recentlyÂ that I thought the Twitter feed, Disasterus,Â of Florida’s Division of Emergency Management [...]

By: admin

admin — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:32:11 +0000

Thanks, Jonathan. Fair point. Though I expect that once he officially takes over, Fugate and FEMA will be extremely active in using social media and the web.
-John

By: Jonathan Haber

Jonathan Haber — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:23:40 +0000

It may be interesting, but is his Twitter feed effective? I just checked, and see that he has 73 followers. His recommendation to visit the FireWise web site might as well have fallen of deaf ears since 73 is an extrememly low number of people to reach with such an important message. So, if he’s truly interested in getting the word out to Florida citizens about the the FireWise web site, he better get the staff at FEMA to add it to their web site somewhere. I have nothing against people following his travels, but let’s ensure that citizens know that the best place to get safety and security messaging is at Fema.gov, ready.gov, etc, not Twitter.