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Feedback Wanted: 7th Grade Math Help Website

Sep 1st, 2009 | By | Category: Uncategorized

The video below is an early draft of a promotional video for a middle school math help website I’m involved with. If you’re the parent of a 7th grader, I’d like your feedback on this video. Note: the finished video will have voice over narration. Please feel free to leave your comments below. [media id=2 […]



Interactive Training Demo

Jun 18th, 2009 | By | Category: Online Interactive Training

Full motion screen captures are not bad. But if you want to interact with what you’re watching, then you need interactive training content. Check out this demo and tell me what you think.



Your website is about them, not about you

May 30th, 2009 | By | Category: Content Management

Your website should showcase the sorts of problems you can solve, not the shiny bells and whistles you think people like to look at.



Evacuation Planning with Google Maps

May 12th, 2009 | By | Category: Cover Story

This 7-minute video is going to show you how to create a Google Map that can be easily updated, easily shared, is completely interactive and can be used in evacuation planning.

For example, let’s say you are working at the local city, county, or state Emergency Operations Center (EOC). You are tasked with documenting all the emergency shelters in your area. With Google Maps, you have a tool to create your detailed inventory and share it with anyone in order to speed emergency evacuation should the need arise.



Another Use for Twitter

May 10th, 2009 | By | Category: Social Networks

It occurs to me that disaster management professionals should be thinking about integrating some sort of micro-blogging technology into our planning protocols.