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PER-304 Social Media for natural Disaster Response and Recovery
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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
Class time: 8 am to 5pm 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, Twitter, and Instagram Hands-On •Crowdsourcing Who Should Take This Course: Community Volunteer Emergency Management Fire Services Law Enforcement Public Works Public Health Health Care Safety Professionals
Additional Information
Register at https://ndptc.hawaii.edu/ For registration assistance contact: Amanda Bates 808.725.5236 batesa@hawaii.edu Student must bring a WI-FI enabled laptop. You must have a Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram account prior to attending. You must be able to post test messages on these accounts.
Location
Charlotte County Public Safety Building
Address
26571 Airport Road
Punta Gorda 33982
Charlotte
Region 6
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Date
Tuesday, Oct 10, 2017 - Tuesday, Oct 10, 2017
10/10/2017 12:00:00 AM
10/10/2017 12:00:00 AM
Point of Contact
Lynne Stickley
941-833-4004
Lynne.Stickley@CharlotteCountyFL.gov
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Event Status
Completed
Event Documents
Flyer_10-10-17_SM@PuntaGordaFL.pdf
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