Posts tagged with Crisis Management

In December 2009, my friend Mike Ellis (@EmergCommNetwrk, website) posted an excerpt of Mark Prutsalis’ (@LivingPrepared, website) August 13, 2009 article Use of Twitter as an Emergency Notification Service. Both became relevant this past week when Twitter experienced serious outage issues making its site inaccessible and API unavailable.

In the article, Mark argues that government agencies should not use Twitter as an emergency notification service.  His points are valid and applicable to private sector businesses and non-profit organizations as well.  Read More

Yesterday I had the pleasure of sitting down and chatting with Larry Smith, President of the Institute for Crisis Management.   Among the many valuable insights gleamed from that meeting was a reminder of the months preceding the feared “Y2K”.  Read More