Here is a guest post on the evolving role of social media on news by Patrice Cloutier, one of the most active and insightful observers of social media and emergency and crisis communication: It's been quite a week. The Facebook IPO made hundreds of instant millionaires, revealing again the growing importance of social media in all our lives. In a way, we've come full circle ... in fact, we've been through many revolutions in the last few months. Another piece of news that caught my attention thi (Read Full Article)

Big Changes in Crisis Communications Because of Social MediaEmergency Management (blog)Gerald Baron is a guy with his finger on the pulse of what is happening with disaster communications. His recent blog posting Explaining just how big the changes in crisis and emergency communications are hits the nail on the head for me. ... (Read Full Article)