Showing posts with label Social Media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social Media. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 09, 2014

MERS, The Twitterverse & MOH Damage Control

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  # 8454   A sign of increasing concern among residents of Saudi Arabia is that Arabic social media – in particular twitter – has...
Monday, March 24, 2014

WHO Twitter Messaging On Ebola

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Credit World Health Organization     # 8397   The news regarding the Ebola outbreak in the West African nation of Guinea continue...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Some Sage Advice From The WHO

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Twitter messages by WHO Spokesperson Gregory Hartl   10/16/13   # 7865   Yesterday’s announced H7N9 case in China – the first in...
Friday, May 10, 2013

WHO Messaging On nCoV

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    # 7258   Of late, infectious disease blogging has me feeling a bit like an indecisive racetrack tout, unable to pick which hor...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

H7N9 Public Health Messaging On Twitter

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      # 7108   With more than a little uncertainty surrounding the future course and impact of the H7N9 virus, public healt...
Sunday, November 04, 2012

Caveat Twitter

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      # 6693     As if the job facing local, state, and Federal emergency officials dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane/Hybr...
Monday, October 01, 2012

NIAID Video: Tracking Ebola In The Congo

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    # 6601   Once again, Ebola has been in the news this summer with outbreaks both in Uganda (see here & here ) and the Democ...
Monday, September 19, 2011

CDC’s Contagion Twitter Chat Continues Today

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    # 5852   A brief reminder, the CDC’s   Twitter chat on how they would handle a real-life disease outbreak similar to what is fi...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

CDC To Hold Live Contagion Chat Tomorrow On Twitter

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    # 5842   The buzz generated by the release last week of Steven Soderbergh’s movie `Contagion’ has led to an increased public...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

CDC Webinar: Leveraging Social Media For Disaster Preparedness

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      # 5796     Tomorrow, August 31st from 1 :00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT , the CDC will present a webinar on the role of social med...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

The CDC’s Zombies Go Viral

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    # 5562     On Tuesday in The CDC And The Zombie Apocalypse , I wrote about a very clever ( and effective ) preparedness ess...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Twitter Volunteers Translate Emergency Manual

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    # 5402   http://nip0.wordpress.com/   While there may be some who doubt the value and intentions of social media durin...
Sunday, February 06, 2011

Getting My Daily Twitter Fix

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      #5291   For those of us who remember the single-line BBS ( bulletin board systems ) of the early 1980s, back when MS-DOS ...
Monday, October 11, 2010

Influenza Social Media Toolkits

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      # 4973     With the 2010-2011 Northern Hemisphere influenza season upon us, the CDC and the HHS are providing a number o...
Thursday, August 12, 2010

A Facelift For FEMA.GOV

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  # 4801     FEMA has reworked their website’s entry page at http://www.fema.gov/ to put public preparedness and disaster info...

Reminder: Red Cross Online Summit Today

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    # 4800     Later today the Red Cross will begin an online summit on Emergency uses of social media.     John Solomon ...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Red Cross Emergency Social Data Summit

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    # 4793     A hat tip and a thank you to the reader who sent me information on the Red Cross summit on Emergency uses of so...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Social Media Resources For This Year’s Hurricane Season

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    # 4652   FEMA , along with NOAA   and the American Red Cross   have put together a number of online social media resources fo...