What can your organization do in 17 minutes? The rise of social media in emergency management

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This is the slide deck of the presentation I made at the Continuity Insights conference in New York City on 12 November 2012.

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What can your organization do in 17 minutes?

The rise of social media in emergency management

Continuity InsightsNew York

12 November 2012

Brian Gray@brianinroma

#cismem

November 12-13, 2012 • Hotel Pennsylvania

“Those who can communicate can’t help but be successful.”

Lieutenant-General Peter Devlin

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Essential Programme Components

Task

Structure

BehaviorChange

Low

High LowCertainty

Agre

emen

t

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Culture > Strategy > Reaction

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Technology is changing the culture of communication

Source: http://mashable.com/2012/02/21/babies-with-ipads-blog-implodes-from-cuteness-pics/#49629Babies-With-iPads

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Degree

Closeness

Betweenness

Social media challenge the sources of network power

Source: Dave Gray, The Connected Company.

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Positional authority is being supplanted by the ability to influence

Source: http://dedwarmo.com/wp-content/uploads/arrest-kony-2012.png.

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Our attitudes toward social media:The six ‘F’s

Folly Fear FlippantFormulating

Forging Fusing

Source: http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/File:Dictionary_letter_f.JPG

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Social Media Risk

Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-57451895-501465/sweden-twitter-experiment-sparks-controversy/

Source: RedCross Blog

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Social Media Risk Mitigation

Avatar Effect

•Tolerate failure•Accept responsibility•Identify opportunity to exploit

Trolls•Don’t feed them•Monitor and block

Privacy•Implement a social media policy•Leaders must set the example

Ghost Town

•Carefully select platforms•Organizations don’t tweet, people do

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The best social media policy ever:

“Don’t do anything stupid.”

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Emergency Management

Tasks

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Emergency Management Framework

Sense Decide Respond

Learn

Review

Social Organization

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Fortunately Twitter self-corrects

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The action is at the frontier of complexitySource: http://www.noop.nl/2008/08/simple-vs-complicated-vs-complex-vs-chaotic.html

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Super heroes can’t do complexity

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Source: http://blogs.cisco.com/wp-content/uploads/beecham_research_internet_of_things.jpg

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High performer characteristics:• Awareness• Influence• Compatibility

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