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“You Can’t Be Fast Enough: Social Media and Emergency Management”

New Training Video on Social Media and Emergency Management by Chief Bill Boyd

We’re really pleased to make available this new video by Chief Bill Boyd on social media and emergency management. Bill speaks directly to fire chiefs, emergency response leaders, incident commanders and elected officials. If you are one of these and trying to get a grasp on how social media is actually used in real events, you can’t do much better than this video.

Bill presents a scenario facing a fire chief that I happen to know is based on a real event. He shows clearly and dramatically that without making full use of today’s internet-based social media channels, the chief would have been in some serious trouble. The simple reason is that others are using these channels, including those witnessing the fire, and what they say about is not likely to be true or accurate.

This is a six minute video. We encourage you to use it for training purposes in your office or work place. If you would like a download version of this so you can present it in training sessions, email us at training@agincourt.us and we’ll get you a copy.

And we’d love to know what you think. Email at gerald.baron@agincourt.us or call 360-303-9123. Your input will give us the guidance we need to develop more programs.

 

 

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