Thursday, October 10, 2013

Social Media Gets Word Out, Rumors Still Fly | The NonProfit Times

Social Media Gets Word Out, Rumors Still Fly | The NonProfit Times: When Hurricane Katrina hot New Orleans and ravaged the Gulf Coast in 2005, Twitter was still a few months from being born and Facebook was still a crawling infant. There were smartphones but they too were not yet real mobile devices.

Still, technology helped provide better communications among rescue workers and public safety officials through ad hoc wireless networks, voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP)-based phone networks, and solar- and battery-powered equipment that provided police radio capabilities.

Much has changed since then.

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