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This working group is focused on discussions about communication.

The mission of this working group is to focus on discussions about communication.

Members

Kathy Gilbeaux mdmcdonald

Email address for group

communication-nj@m.resiliencesystem.org

DHS - VSMWG - Lessons Learned: Social Media and Hurricane Sandy

submitted by Michael Kraft

communities.firstresponder.gov

Lessons Learned: Social Media and Hurricane Sandy
(39 PAGE .pdf FILE)

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New Jersey to Launch Emergency, Preparedness Awareness Campaign

submitted by Samuel Bendett

homelandsecuritynewswire.com - April 11, 2013

The New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness is currently looking for a PR firm to help it launch a multifaceted awareness campaign. The campaign, worth about $4 million over three years, would aim to increase the level of emergency awareness and preparedness of residents, businesses, and communities in New Jersey.

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Hurricane Sandy and Twitter

                

submitted by Albert Gomez

journalism.org

For millions who lost power but could still access the internet on mobile devices, Twitter served as a critical lifeline throughout the disaster that struck on October 29. At least a few news operations, such as Huffington Post and the aggregator BuzzFeed saw their servers go down and turned to Twitter and other social media to deliver reports.

According to Twitter, people sent more than 20 million tweets about the storm from October 27 through November 1.

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