PROFNET EXPERTS ROUNDUP: California Wildfires Following is a list of experts who can discuss the California wildfires: 1. MICHAEL BROWN is former director of FEMA and spokesman for COTTON COMPANIES, one of the nation's leading providers of disaster recovery services... Cotton has responded to such high-alert disasters as Hurricane Katrina...
Heckuva job.
Disasters are social: They affect large groups of people, all thrown together by circumstance or location. So when I was at a dinner with Laughing Squid founder Scott Beale two weeks ago and he said, "The next disaster will be Twittered," I thought he was spot on. What better use could there be for a social media site like Twitter than to support people with a dire need to connect to each other and share information?
So how's social media doing in the current disaster, the Southern California fires (aerial pictures)?
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