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Social Media Transforming Disaster Preparedness, Response

Wednesday, June 27th, 2012

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Social media’s biggest impact on disaster preparedness and response is helping people be proactive, instead of reactive, a military social media practitioner said yesterday. “Folks, we think, are looking to social media for what’s going to happen next or ‘What should I be thinking next,’ not what just happened,” Navy spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Chris Servello said yesterday in Washington. Servello’s remarks came at an Ogilvy Exchange panel on social media in disaster preparedness and response, sponsored by Ogilvy Washington, Defense…

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