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By: Wesenwille » Blog Archive » Snow 2.0 and other #ukemergencies

Wesenwille » Blog Archive » Snow 2.0 and other #ukemergencies — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:28:48 +0000

[...] year, Dave Fleet blogged around using twitter as a “Hyper Local Emergency Tool” and since then I’ve blogged aroundother hyper-local ideas for web [...]

By: Twitter for Municipalities — UrbanWorkbench

Twitter for Municipalities — UrbanWorkbench — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:05:30 +0000

[...] Emergency management - emergency coordinators need to get information out quickly to people in an emergency; Twitter could even work at a hyper-local level; [...]

By: Governments Experimenting With Twitter | davefleet.com

Governments Experimenting With Twitter | davefleet.com — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:01:14 +0000

[...] Emergency management – emergency coordinators need to get information out quickly to people in an emergency; Twitter could even work at a hyper-local level; [...]

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FutureGov » Useful links » links for 2009-02-08 — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 13:00:39 +0000

[...] Twitter As A Hyper-Local Emergency Information Tool? | davefleet.com via Ken Campbell-Wright (tags: twitter emergencyplanning resilience2.0) [...]

By: Community Safety & Hyperlocal Twitter Accounts « Wesenwille

Community Safety & Hyperlocal Twitter Accounts « Wesenwille — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:02:28 +0000

[...] blog I mentioned Community Safety. Then, as I plodded through my RSS Feed I came across DaveFleet’s idea about Hyper-Local Twitter accounts. Why shouldn’t a council break it’s news down by neighbourhood and feed it out [...]

By: Brian Humphrey

Brian Humphrey — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 05:20:14 +0000

Dave,

Great article. Pleas know we’re already on it (hyperlocal that is) for both alerting and after-action reports.

We knew from the outset that our mainstream LAFD Twitter could be a bit much for some, and we hope to roll our more localized version out of the LAFD Labs later this year.

Please keep up the great work that makes your feed a daily must read.

Respectfully Yours in Safety and Service,

Brian Humphrey
Firefighter/Specialist
Public Service Officer
Los Angeles Fire Department

By: Ari Herzog

Ari Herzog — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:32:07 +0000

I can't speak for Toronto's feeds, but one of the best examples of a law enforcement agency using Twitter as a broadcast service for its residents is the Los Angeles Fire Department at @LAFD. The LAFD uses Twittermail.

By: Christie Adams

Christie Adams — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:35:55 +0000

Twitter feeds wouldn’t have to be just for emergency news, either. Local schools could send tweets about fundraisers, for example, and mom-and-pop stores could announce surprise sales for their loyal neighbourhood customers. Why not?

By: Bernie Goldbach

Bernie Goldbach — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:27:27 +0000

I still don’t trust Twitter’s reliability when compared to SMS. And I think you need cellular geodetic info to ensure truly authentic information services. Google already has this figured out with Jaiku, although Jaiku’s markiet penetration is anemic outside of Scandanavia.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:05:59 +0000

I could see Twitter (or any other feed) having potential. The ability to get information about the static locations in your life, like home or work, is well suited to Twitter or some other RSS.

If location-based social software based on GPS or cell phone triangulation become available, there could be the possibility of subscribing to relevant alerts within say, 5km of your current location.

I see plenty of possibility for hyper-local communication.