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Using Social Media for Alerting Purposes on Universities

Check out this summary of a study: Social media can help alert students during campus emergencies.

What I find surprising is the number of colleges and universities that have not leveraged social media to help with their alerting functions. I would have figured that with their highly networked population it would have been a high priority to use social media.

Maybe this behavior explains why social media has not been more adopted in general by emergency managers at the state and local levels.

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.