Social Media Platforms for Disaster Management

Social Media Platforms for Disaster Management

TCI: TCI-E7E4KPWE

Duration: 2-hour

Provider: University of Hawaii National Disaster Preparedness Training Center

This 2-hour web-based training provides participants with information on the strengths, challenges, and uses of social media platforms and provides the skills and knowledge to integrate social media into their current communication plans for disaster response and recovery.Traditional media sources are a one-way form of communication where people are only consumers of content, whereas social media transforms people into both consumers and producers of content. These sources can provide quicker an