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American College of Preventive Medicine’s Annual Conference

Amy Sample Ward

Description : Social media tools allow for people to connect: broadcasting messages to real time communication, online networking to offline collaboration. Related Links : Conference website.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

I’m joining a panel to talk about the response for support after the Haiti earthquakes last year. It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Direct Content. What’s so important or interesting about this?

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