I’ve just spent a day and half at a RUSI conference on resilience. Most of the sessions included some discussion about communication; either there still wasn’t much of it going on between key organisations or institutions were not making enough of new social media services in their effort to share information, collaborate and provide up-to-date briefs on unfolding emergencies. Twitter, is one of those new social media services – in a nutshell it’s a social networking and micro-blogging services. As far as I could tell David and I were the only people using Twitter during the conference (unlike the recent ODNI conference David went to, for example).
For those interested, here’s a short video explaining the power of twitter.