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Re: If 911 Used Social Media

johnrm321 — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:00:09 -0000

I know on my college campus, we have those triangle looking emergency call station towers kind of like this one. the dispatch center that runs these things also sends out emergency text messages to students when there is an emergency. These texts are very helpful, last semester we had a potential shooter on campus, and this got out the message very fast. For the people who did not get the text message, it was almost instantaneously transferred to them via facebook, twitter.

Re: Feb. 2010 SMBSeattle: Social Media Measurement and ROI

Katie Skow — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:51:22 -0000

Nice! I'm watching the videos now!

Re: My facebook Categorization / Filter Process, Led Me to a Bug

ColinAC — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:11:44 -0000

TOTALLY Agree! They are much more like tags than "filters". They should also format the 'tags' like delicious does. When you add tags to your friends then it auto recommends that tag to other people adding them. Plus give people the ability to thumb up or down the tags other friends give. More control should also be given to the person. They should be able to supply the tags they think of themselves as well.

Re: My facebook Categorization / Filter Process, Led Me to a Bug

Sam Howat — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:31:33 -0000

They need to change their filters to "tags" and change the format. You can tag people with different descriptive tags and then apply filters based on groups of tags... Would help the UI a bit too.

Re: If 911 Used Social Media

ColinAC — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:56:38 -0000

Great insight and comments. I agree. We need a system to determine who the Trust Agents are. I also call sectors of these people as micro-celebrities.

I think the system to determine trust agents will be a rating system that brings in all the information about a person from around the web to one dashboard. We will have our youtube, blogging sites, picture sites, linkedin etc... all in one hub. (We are refining the news feed for an individual right now with this social media wild west) The ratings from each of our online activities typically have the general 5 star system for each video or piece of content. Next step is aggregate those rating for each channel then combine like channels like youtube, vimeo, viddler, etc... into a video category.

We can use meta data to determine the topics people produce content about and which channel (Video, blog, photos, public speaking, books etc...) they receive the highest ratings in. Also with social site we can determine WHO they are linked to and the standing of those people. In this fashion people are treated as a web page or piece of content. A formula like the google search formula could be applied and balanced to determine who we should trust content from. On the same note, Publishers like CNN, New York Times, Wall street Journal, etc.. can serve as syndicates of the trust agents. I would love to see rating systems have a drop down option that are more specific.

There are obviously many other components to a site or system like that since its pretty complex, but I think the layout of the web is moving in that direction.

Re: If 911 Used Social Media

Howard Howell — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:57:44 -0000

This is an interesting question Colin. I could see us debating in court after a crime all of the "un-verified" tweets of "eye-witness" accounts. I could also see many tweets used to maliciously re-direct the attention of police and rescue responders during an event.

The new media reality is great in that we all have a public voice now, but I am just as intrigued to observe how we will start to verify the Trust Agents that Chris Brogan and Julien Smith talk about in their book. Which tweets and blog posts do you really trust. Truth has been hard enough determine during the major media dominance period. Now that everyone has a public voice will truth be determined by the loudest voice?

Learning who you can trust over time by observing and experiencing before making a decision to engage a service provider is a good use of following others on the web. But, establishing trust for accuracy in time-sensitive emergency events is yet another challenge.

The New Media Reality is changing a lot about the way we communicate. I like your thinking Colin. ...Howard