Social Media can empower anyone – emergency responders, patients, and bystanders – to be public information officers (PIO). Learning to use social media tools before, during, and after major incidents is a significant challenge for emergency response agencies. PIOSocialMediaTraining.com launched September 1, 2009 to aid in that challenge.

The mission of PIOSocialMediaTraining.com is to empower public information officers, incident commanders, and other emergency responders from all types of emergency response agencies to effectively engage in the creation of Social Media to achieve their own organization’s unique mission and objectives. The best way for website visitors to start is by participating in the no-cost PIO Social Media Boot Camp, which is an email based educational course on the use of Social Media in both emergency and non-emergency situations. During the ten email series of lessons participants will learn about social media tools, how to create a hub and spokes for distributing content and engaging stakeholders, and how to equip a social media toolkit.

The PIO Social Media Boot Camp was created by Dave Konig and Greg Friese who are experienced emergency responders, bloggers, podcasters, and social media advocates. Their intent is to help other emergency responders understand and effectively utilize social media. Dave and Greg regularly write new columns on social media tools, best practices, and current events for PIOSocialMediaTraining.com/hub/blog.

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Tags: blog, Dave Konig, Greg Friese, Social Media

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