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TCIP #032 – The National Weather Service’s Crisis Communication Strategy with Daniel Noah

Melissa Agnes

The NWS’s strategy for dealing with doomsday photos that tend to go viral in natural disasters and put people in panic mode. The NWS’s Wireless Emergency Alerts – How they use mobile and geo-targeting to distribute highly critical information to the masses, in real-time.

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2016 – A Year in Traditional Media

Shift Communications

PR people often talk about ideas to make news go viral, but there is no way to predict or plan for when something will be a hit. The Verge , Thomas Ricker (UVM: 16,157,798): Blink wireless security cameras run for two years on a pair of AA batteries. Julie Staadecker, Account Director. Client: McDonald’s. Client: Blink.

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The Essential Guide to Mass Communication: History, Methods, Ethics, and the Future

Masters in Communications

That year, Italian electrical engineer Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi invented the "wireless telegraph" (16). For example, it also forms the basis of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) which both transmit data wirelessly. Along with Karl Ferdinand Braun in 1909, the pair were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics.

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