If you ever thought I have an exciting life, this was my Sunday evening.
Gotta keep the coffee hot during any emergency right?
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Discussion today on new technologies for PIOs
Yesterday, a bunch of PIOs met to discuss some video publishing options.
And yes, pushing out time-sensitive information and learning about new technologies ON THE SAME MOBILE DEVICE AT THE SAME TIME does cause some stressful moments.
However, we got serious and openly discussed a few new technologies.
You guessed it, the theme of the day was the immediacy of mobile hardware and software for broadcast video. So our spirited discussion resulted in a lunch-n-learn program.
Other tips from today’s meeting:
- Adapt and overcome.
- Play the long game.
- You are bigger than you think.
- Promotion.
- Put in the work.
- Make them follow you.
Ahhh yes. Because if we can avoid having to go here…
…we can be more productive for our leadership and enhance the visibility of our field/tactical operations.
Looking forward for big things to come.
Interim Cleveland Fire Chief
Heh-I knew him when he wore black gear…
Retrofitted military aircraft to support wildfire operations
One of my friends in California just emailed me this picture.
National Guard members have retrofitted various aircraft including this C-130 with alternate equipment for wildfire operations.
I am really impressed with how local, state, Federal, and military assets are working together to control the wildfires. All-Hazards indeed!
Nice work everyone!
Honor Flight from Iowa at IAD last night #Merica
#HonorFlight of Iowa Veterans at IAD last night.
It was an honor to shake your hands and thank you for your service to this great country!
#Merica
This one should be fairly easy…
Well, this one should be fairly easy to guess.
Reporting live from the EOC…
#ndptc
@rusnivek
Sorry Robin-no thank you
Oh geez, I don’t need this for Monday morning water cooler fodder.
Just trying to stay out of the news this week…
Snack Shack?
I need one of these setup in the EOC.
@rusnivek
When a school bus flashes it’s red lights…
Please stop when a school bus is flashing red lights.
As you can see, kids will dart across the roadway without looking.
I don’t care if you are in your small car, minivan, truck, ambulance or fire truck – kids don’t understand traffic laws.
For the sake of kids’ safety – please abide by the rules of the road around school buses.
Facebook looking more Twitterish or Tinderish or SnapChatish Safety-PIO-SM-15-005
| 15-005: Facebook looking more Twitterish or Tinderish or SnapChatish | |
| Agency: Facebook platform | Topic(s): Facebook (personal) |
| Date: 10-02-15 | Platform: Facebook |
A few hours ago, Facebook just rolled out a few new features you should be aware of.
First, right below your personal profile picture, you can see they have added an additional sentence so you can add a description about you.
For this specific feature, Facebook has limited you to 101 characters, attempted imbedded emojis or other linking directives (like Twitter handles outside of Facebook world) do not work.
Why is this important? Three things:
- It allows Facebook to gather more information about you by allowing you to place topics that best reflect you (aka self-identified targeted words).
- They can use these descriptors to serve you more ads and/or grow your networks to those with similar word associations.
- Hyperlinks do not work in this descriptor box.
And if you think this is familiar, this description feature box parallels Twitter’s description box which is also located below your twitter name and Twitter handle.
Facebook has also added a new feature where you can add 5 additional pictures about yourself. Think of this as an enhanced profile picture. This allows you to showcase 5 different profiled images of yourself on your personal Facebook page.
This feature obviously makes it look more Tinderish. Gawd – *swipe left* please!
Why more pictures? Better facial recognition. User contributed best profile pictures of themselves for identification.
A few days ago, Facebook crashed as they were pushing for the launch of their 360-video, but if you thought this feature could lead to a few seconds of video profile picture of yourself, you would be SnapChat correct.
Two new features on Twitter….I mean SnapChat….I mean Tinder….I mean Facebook.
You get the idea…Zuck’s blurring the lines again.
Keep your social media tools game sharp peeps!
Or download the one-pager FacebookLookingMoreLike-Safety-PIO-SM-15-005
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