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Join Visionlink: National Hurricane Conference

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We're all about improving hurricane preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation in order to save lives and property in the United States and the tropical islands of the Caribbean and Pacific. Visionlink has in attendance some of our most senior disaster experts--with literally hundreds of disaster operations in their bank of experience.

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Visionlink’s Volunteer Registry Deployed for Hurricanes Harvey & Irma

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Thousands of volunteers have offered to assist in the Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. High-level government officials have directed these generous people to National VOAD and their member agencies. Due to the ongoing uncertainty of Hurricane Irma, other states will be added as necessary.

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Amazing Recovery Efforts for Hurricane Harvey

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Visionlink is proud to support the work of National VOAD's Project Comeback in Texas with our multi-agency Disaster Case Management solution, helping more than 700 case managers from 14 nonprofit partners assist more than 12,000 households. Learn more about the American Red Cross , National VOAD and Visionlink.

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Free South Carolina Disaster Home Cleanup Hotline Available Now

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7, 2015 – From now through October 31st, Information Technology Disaster Resource Center ( www.ITDRC.org ), Humanity Road ( www.HumanityRoad.org ), and VisionLink ( www.VisionLink.org ), are staffing and supporting a free hotline for the survivors of the South Carolina floods. More information about VisionLink can be found at [link].

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Visionlink Supports Dorian Response

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Visionlink systems are fully engaged with Hurricane Dorian response. The National Shelter System is being used to help manage dozens of shelters in Florida--and states north, as Dorian continues along its predicted track. As we know, the most effective disaster relief solutions are those that are used every day.

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2-1-1 Disaster Shelter Resources

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Then consider connecting to the National Shelter System to have information about disaster shelters at your finger tips, and for those you serve. You can have an account on the National Shelter System, or have access to the XML open shelters data feed. Here''s to only moderate damage from Hurricane Irene.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

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My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Why Social Media?

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