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SMEM Camp event brought together more than 150 members of the U.S. emergency management community convened to discuss how social media and emerging technologies are affecting response operations. Findings of this event, along with additional collaboration with the community, has yielded the first independent, community-led report reflecting the needs and challenges of our nation's emergency services systems ability to leverage social media tools to support emergency management functions, not only during crisis events but during preparedness, recovery and mitigation efforts.
SMEM Camp was hosted by the National Emergency Management Association (NEMA) and the SMEM Initiative, in collaboration with CrisisCommons. Participants included representatives from state and local emergency management agencies, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the American Red Cross, Twitter©, companies like Citibank, and volunteer technology communities. SMEM Camp was a direct response to changes in societal expectations of emergency responders (e.g., the timeliness of response) brought about by the emergence of social media and related technologies over the past decade.
The participants and researchers collaborated with hopes to share an independent and grassroots practitioner perspective which can to shed light on current opportunities and challenges with regards to use of social media across the entire emergency management spectrum. To view the report and its resources you can click to http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/SMEM_Initiative or the below links:
- Social Media in Emergency Management Camp: Transforming the Response Enterprise Report: http://scr.bi/uy5H0w
- SMEM Report Factsheet: http://scr.bi/ts1fFP
- SMEM Report Annex B: Virtual Operations Support Group/Team http://scr.bi/VOSGTConcept
- SMEM Report Annex C: Social Media in Emergency Management: the Canadian experience http://scr.bi/SMEMCanada
About the SMEM Initiative
The Social Media in Emergency Management Initiative "SMEM" is an informal network of emergency management practitioners who seek to explore best practices and bridge social media in emergency management. SMEM seeks to build a common understanding and "experience exchange" to support the use and inclusion of social media, public data and technology innovation to support mission objectives of emergency management to prepare for, respond to, recover from and mitigate against disaster. To join the conversation, visit the #SMEM hash tag and be sure to visit the #SMEMchat each Friday at 12:30PM EST where there is a live discussion. Check out news and archive topics at at www.sm4em.org and wiki.crisiscommons.org and be sure to join the practitioner email group at http://groups.google.com/group/smem.
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