Open and shut: social networks can improve your information picture
“Last year all this was surrounded by water” Not surprisingly the emergency planners of Wales are very interested in flooding. The received wisdom is that the biggest risk to communities is from the...
View ArticleWhere it happens: a trip to the FCO crisis response centre
Emergency cupboard When I first took over emergency planning for a local authority my emergency control centre consisted of a cupboard housing two VHF radios and a 60 watt light bulb. We also had a...
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What a good Local Resilience Forum does around communicating with the public
From last month I’m a bit late with my list of recommended summer reading and, it turns out, there’s only one book on it. The role of Local Resilience Forums: A reference document by the Cabinet...
View ArticleBackups
A series of unexpected events have led to me having to reinstall the blog. Of course, being a resilience specialist, I take regular backups. Of course…
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#ukstorm #smem resources
Last night @joannalane asked Greetings #smemchat – jumping in late. Does anyone have a follow list or other #smem resources for severe UK weather? — Joanna Lane (@joannalane) October 25, 2013 So I set...
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How good an idea is a Chromebook?
A few months ago I bought a new computer. Buying computers is dull of course. Deciding which computer to buy is fun. My starting point was that I wanted a laptop: slim, portable, good looking and with...
View ArticleSkype on a chromebook
One of the frustrations of using the Chrome OS is the fact that there isn’t a Skype client for Chrome. Is this a deliberate attempt by Microsoft to undermine Google’s takeover of the PC space, does it...
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Twitter’s new timeline feature demonstrated with puppies
Twitter has a new feature: custom timelines. It enables you to pull tweets out of the twitterverse and put them in a list which you can then share with the world. This is a bit like storify.com except...
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Social media in interoperability
Over on the Open Eye Communications blog, Mike Alderson has been raising questions about a new(ish) publication: “Joint Doctrine: the interoperability framework” which has been published by the...
View ArticleSlides from EPS Wales workshop #smemwa13
The lovely folk at the Emergency Planning Society Wales branch asked me to run a workshop for them yesterday. Fifty people arrived, not of them walked out in protest and few of them threw things. So...
View ArticleI love Google Slides
I love Google Slides (not this slide though it does look pretty awesome). There I’ve said it. I haven’t always loved Google Slides. It’s got better over the past few years with more transitions,...
View ArticleGhosting in the new year
New Year, new blogging platform. I’ve been experimenting with a new blogging platform. Do we really need a new blogging platform I hear you ask? Especially when we have WordPress (which this blog is...
View ArticleTransport Committee winter resilience report highlights
I’m experimenting with Ghost. This is a cross-post from a Ghost installation I’m playing with. The House of Commons Transport Committee has published a “Ready and waiting? Transport preparations for...
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