9,200+ seek refuge on Facebook run by Student Volunteers

Facebook Pages in the NZ earthquake Our organization’s thoughts and prayers are with the victims in Christchurch, surrounding areas and with their families and friends at this time. To honor them, we will endeavor to improve our citizen input to situational awareness for emergency responders in our own community. We can learn from New Zealand’s [...]

Coastal Erosion Meeting Feb 16th 2011

Nervous wait continues as storms keep marching east. The Coastal Erosion Meeting by government officials hosted about 80 members of the public. The purpose of the meeting was to explore both short term and long term solutions to the coastal erosion happening on Long Island Sound. Attendees from Government included Legislator Ed Romaine, Southold Town Supervisor Scott Russell and Southold Town Trustee Bob Ghosio, each familiar with the issues and actively involved in trying to resolve problems for some time. Representing the Army Corp of Engineers were Roman G Rakoczy and Nathanael T. Wales.

Mobile Friendly Website

Soft-launch of SoutholdVOICE mobile friendly website, which gives you the basic news to read on your cell phone. Why? Because nearly 20% of our readers access this site on a cell phone. So here’s the good news for them. You can now switch back and forth between the mobile site and full desktop version by using the links in the right side bar and in the footer of every page. If you’re on a mobile, also don’t forget to join us on our Facebook page, which is also mobile friendly.

Citizens ask the Town to use their SMEM brain

We were invited to present our #Get SMEMsmart project (Social Media Emergency Management) to the six Board Members of the town of Southold today ( Feb 15th). It was an informal work session, round table discussion, with pen and paper, no internet connection, except for a smart phone, which as a practical matter could not be used as a demo tool without amplification to a large screen.  Basic, simple, friendly, but difficult to engage participants of mixed knowledge and experience in matters of social media on the internet without access to a live stream. Read more here.

FEMA picks SoutholdVOICE

FEMA has included SoutholdVOICE’s submission in the final round of judging their competition, “Sharing the Responsibility to Protect Communities Against the Impacts of Disasters”. See our submission and compare with others.