Social Media

Social Media User Community Application Personality Socio-economic status Occupation Other Community Application

User Personality Classification Social Media Issues Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator Social Media Issues Self selection Shaping/reinforcement

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Jungian Typology Extraversion (E) - (I) Introversion Sensing (S) - (N) Intuition Thinking (T) - (F) Feeling Judgment (J) - (P) Perception http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp

Categories of Social Media Communication Blogs: Blogger, ExpressionEngine, LiveJournal, Open Diary, TypePad, Vox, WordPress, Xanga Microblogging: FMyLife, Foursquare, Jaiku, Plurk, Posterous, Tumblr, Twitter, Qaiku, Google Buzz, Identi.ca Nasza-Klasa.pl Location-based social networks: Foursquare, Geoloqi, Gowalla, Facebook places, The Hotlist Social networking: ASmallWorld, Bebo, Cyworld, Diaspora, Facebook, Hi5, Hyves, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Orkut, Plaxo, Tagged, XING , IRC, Yammer Events: Eventful, The Hotlist, Meetup.com, Upcoming Information Aggregators: Netvibes, Twine (website) Online Advocacy and Fundraising: Causes, Kickstarter Collaboration/authority building Wikis: PBworks, Wetpaint, Wikia, Wikimedia, Wikispaces Social bookmarking (or social tagging) CiteULike, Delicious, Diigo, Google Reader, StumbleUpon, folkd Social Media Gaming: Empire Avenue Social news: Digg, Mixx, NowPublic, Reddit, Newsvine Social navigation: Trapster, Waze Content Management Systems: Wordpress, Drupal, Plone Document Managing and Editing Tools: Google Docs, Syncplicity, Docs.com, Dropbox.com Collaboration: Central Desktop

Categories of Social Media Multimedia Photography and art sharing: deviantArt, Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa, SmugMug, Zooomr Video sharing: sevenload, Viddler, Vimeo, YouTube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, Nico Nico Douga, Openfilm Livecasting: Justin.tv, Livestream, OpenCU, Skype, Stickam, Ustream, blip.tv, oovoo, Youtube Music and audio sharing: ccMixter, Pandora Radio, Spotify, Last.fm, MySpace Music, ReverbNation.com, ShareTheMusic, The Hype Machine, Groove Shark, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, Soundclick, imeem. Presentation sharing: scribd, SlideShare Reviews and opinions Product reviews: epinions.com, MouthShut.com Business reviews: Customer Lobby, Yelp, Inc. Community Q&A: Askville, EHow, Stack Exchange, WikiAnswers, Yahoo! Answers, Quora, ask.com Entertainment Media and entertainment platforms: Cisco Eos Virtual worlds: Active Worlds, Forterra Systems, Second Life, The Sims Online, World of Warcraft, RuneScape Game sharing: Kongregate, Miniclip, Newgrounds, Armor Games Brand monitoring Social media measurement: Attensity, Radian6, Statsit, Sysomos, Vocus Marketing eBay, Amazon

Social Media Sites http://twitter.com/ http://www.facebook.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/ http://www.wikipedia.org/ http://www.youtube.com/ http://secondlife.com/ http://digg.com http://www.delicious.com http://www.ebay.com

Social Media Activity Facebook – 500 Million users Twitter – 50 Million tweets/day LinkedIn – 90 Million users Delicious – 5 Million users Blogs – 133 Million 2.5 Billion visits to Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn per month

Social Network Applications in National Preparedness

Current Status People use social networks in an ad hoc fashion Mostly during response and recovery Lots of misleading information

Objective How do I make use of social media to improve our lives before, during and after emergencies?

Group Advantages 1. Diversity: Varied cultures, age groups, gender, etc all add to the diversity of group which gives us varied perspectives and enhances the kind of ideas the group can come up with. 2. Varied experiences: There are difference in fields of experience and amount of experience and there differences in the life experiences and the kind of experiences people have had even with the same problem. This pool of experience can be a great advantage. 3. Enhanced memory for facts: An individual may forget a particular piece of information, but as there are a number of people involved here, there is the combined memory of all members to recollect data. 4. Greater Acceptability of decisions: As everyone has made some contribution to the decision, people tend to be more accepting of the decision. Also those who may not have contributed still support it as "the group" has come to this decision. 5. Error detection: When there are many people working together, mistakes and errors that may have accidentally gone unnoticed and had serious consequences are spotted by other team members. 6. Collective understanding: The members together come to a decision after much deliberation and discussions and so everyone has a better understanding of the course of action to be followed. 7. Less influence of bias: Individual biases can be challenged and individuals may have to recognize and eliminate them.

Group Advantages 8. More creative solutions: With so many people involved, more creative and innovative solutions to problems may emerge than an individual may have been able to develop. 9. Shared responsibility: There are a number of people involved, so no one person has to shoulder the burden of work or of single-handedly making a decision. 10. Motivational effect: The group decision making may even have a motivational effect on the team if the team is a successful one. 11. Simplifies complex decisions: Many complex decisions can be made by the group decision making process which an individual may not have been able to tackle. 12. More information and knowledge are available 13. More alternatives are likely to be generated 14. More acceptance of the final decisions is likely

Preparedness Categories Prevention Preparation Response Recovery

Functional Categories Situational Awareness Education Communications Discovery

Situational Awareness Surveillance Illness (syndromic) Reporting (www.citysourced.com) Pictures Maps

Education Manuals (JIT) Experience Lessons Learned

Communications Alerting Amber Alerts Warnings Routing

Discovery Lost/Missing Persons Reuniting Lost Property

Social Media Amanda Ripley Time Magazine The Unthinkable www.AmandaRipley.com

FEMA Go Kit Water, one gallon of water per person per day for at least three days, for drinking and sanitation Food, at least a three-day supply of non-perishable food Battery-powered or hand crank radio and a NOAA Weather Radio with tone alert and extra batteries for both Flashlight and extra batteries First aid kit Whistle to signal for help Dust mask, to help filter contaminated air and plastic sheeting and duct tape to shelter-in-place Moist towelettes, garbage bags and plastic ties for personal sanitation Wrench or pliers to turn off utilities Can opener for food (if kit contains canned food) Local maps Cell phone with chargers, inverter or solar charger

FEMA Supplemental Items Prescription medications and glasses Infant formula and diapers Pet food and extra water for your pet Important family documents such as copies of insurance policies, identification and bank account records in a waterproof, portable container Cash or traveler's checks and change Important family documents such as copies of insurance policies, identification and bank account records in a waterproof, portable container. You can use the Emergency Financial First Aid Kit (EFFAK) - PDF, 277Kb) developed by Operation Hope, FEMA and Citizen Corps to help you organize your information. Emergency reference material such as a first aid book or information from www.ready.gov. Sleeping bag or warm blanket for each person. Consider additional bedding if you live in a cold-weather climate. Complete change of clothing including a long sleeved shirt, long pants and sturdy shoes. Consider additional clothing if you live in a cold-weather climate. Household chlorine bleach and medicine dropper – When diluted nine parts water to one part bleach, bleach can be used as a disinfectant. Or in an emergency, you can use it to treat water by using 16 drops of regular household liquid bleach per gallon of water. Do not use scented, color safe or bleaches with added cleaners. Fire Extinguisher Matches in a waterproof container Feminine supplies and personal hygiene items Mess kits, paper cups, plates and plastic utensils, paper towels Paper and pencil Books, games, puzzles or other activities for children

Other Items Knife (Swiss Army) Rope Medical Records Zip lock Bags Pillow Aluminum Foil Cargo pants, shirt Wallet Gun Backpack/Canvas Bag