You are on twitter – right?

by | Oct 9, 2008


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.

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  • Charlie Edwards

    Charlie Edwards is Director of National Security and Resilience Studies at the Royal United Services Institute. Prior to RUSI he was a Research Leader at the RAND Corporation focusing on Defence and Security where he conducted research and analysis on a broad range of subject areas including: the evaluation and implementation of counter-violent extremism programmes in Europe and Africa, UK cyber strategy, European emergency management, and the role of the internet in the process of radicalisation. He has undertaken fieldwork in Iraq, Somalia, and the wider Horn of Africa region.

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