A ‘near miss’ like yesterday’s Los Angeles earthquake often doesn’t motivate people to prepare. Sometimes, it requires something major to actually happen to you before doing anything.
Yet, as Part 1, the Times-Picayune collection of preparedness tips I posted on Monday, indicates, the testimony of disaster survivors can also be very compelling and helpful. That’s why Pinellas […]
Why Prepare? Ask (& Watch) The Survivors (Part 2) — The Pinellas County “Project Storm Story”
July 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Hurricane Preparedness · Preparedness Lessons · Preparedness Tips
Why Prepare? Ask The Survivors (Part 1) — “New Orleans Times-Picayune” Readers’ Post-Katrina List Of Preparedness Tips
July 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment
One of the simplest but most ingenious uses of the internet for disaster preparedness is the New Orleans Times Picayune’s list of reader hurricane preparedness lessons learned mostly as a result of Hurricane Katrina.
The Times-Picayune, which did such heroic coverage during and after Katrina, solicited these ideas from readers in 2006 and printed them weekly […]
Tags: Hurricane Preparedness · Media · Preparedness Tips
“Cross Blog” — The Oregon Red Cross’ Innovative Online Presence
June 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments
One of the important goals of the American Red Cross’ Social Media Unit I just visited in Washington is drawing from (and spreading) creative preparedness 2.0 work being done in their chapters around the country.
This week, they invited Robin Parker, one of the founders of the Oregon chapter’s Cross Blog, to headquarters in Washington to help out with their social media efforts in response to the Midwest floods.
Cross Blog’s Robin […]