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PER-304 Social Media for natural Disaster Response and Recovery
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PER-304
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Description
This awareness-level course enhances the participants’ abilities to build up an organization’s communication strategy for disaster preparedness, response, and recovery. The course will provide participants with the knowledge and skills of: - Social media and its uses - The current tools, methods, and models to properly make use of social media for crisis communication Participants will take part in facilitator-led activities that challenge them to identify effective social media platforms for their organizations to utilize during crises situations. In these activities, participants apply their knowledge with the presented material to actual disaster preparedness, response, and recovery issues. Through the use of social media tools, participants will learn and master skills to disseminate information and monitor, track, measure, and analyze social media traffic. Participants will be able to use social media as a method to identify warning signs that a crisis is developing. The
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Target Audience
This course focuses on the use of social media in disaster preparedness, response, and recovery
Social media has shown to help people communicate and collaborate about events as the events unfold
Social media can provide rapid and immediate real-time information about events that helps provide greater situational awareness leading to better decision making
Participants are provided with the knowledge and skills to integrate social media into their current communication plans
The course defines social media and its uses and identifies the tools, methods, and models to properly make use of social media in the context of disaster management and provides the information and hands-on experience necessary to help the participants’ social media disaster plans
Course Modules include: •Introduction to Social Media •Understanding the Use of Social Media and Disaster Management •Implementing Different Social Media Platforms for Disaster Management •Facebook Hands-On •Twitter Hands-On •Crowdsourcing & Data Mining TARGET AUDIENCE: •Government Administrative •Emergency Management •Fire Services •Law Enforcement •General Public •Citizen/Community Volunteer •Public Works •Private Sector / Corporate Security and Safety
Additional Information
Class begins at 8:30 am and ends by 5pm. Students need to bring a laptop or tablet to class.
Location
Lee County Emergency Operations Center
Address
2675 Ortiz Avenue
Fort Myers 33905
Lee
Region 6
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Date
Thursday, Jun 02, 2016 - Thursday, Jun 02, 2016
6/2/2016 12:00:00 AM
6/2/2016 12:00:00 AM
Point of Contact
Celeste Fournier
239-533-0694
cfournier@leegov.com
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Name
County
Organization
Susan Lindenmuth
Lee
Estero Fire Rescue
Patricia DiPiero
Lee
Kim Savage
Sarasota
Other-Sarasota
ellen simon
Sarasota
Other-Sarasota
William Dalton
Lee
Other-Lee
Thomas Higginbotham
Lee
Other-Lee
Amy Bollen
Lee
Kaitlyn Kramer
Charlotte
Other-Charlotte
Andrew Frame
Hendry
Hendry County EM
Alexis Rothring
Lee
Other-Lee
Ronald Gibson
Lee
Other-Lee
Britt Mayfield
Hillsborough
Hagerty Consulting
Deborah Quimby
Lee
Lee County
Andrea Schuch
Lee
Other-Lee
Jason Haythorn
Palm Beach
Palm Beach County Fire Rescue
Barry Liebowitz
Collier
Other-Collier
Christian Bronton
Lee
Other-Lee
Edmund McHale Jr.
Lee
Other-Lee
Phyllis Gibson
Lee
Other-Lee
David Rice
Lee
Other-Lee
Tera Miller
Lee
Burroughs Home & Gardens
Emiel Fanska
Hendry
Other-Hendry
Amber Batteiger
Palm Beach
Other-Palm Beach
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