Twitter and Facebook might catch a lot of flak for giving people the opportunity to post about their cats and their breakfast and their current outfits, but recent events have once again shown that social media is more than just a parking lot for trivial updates. When crucial, even life-saving information needs to be broadcast, social media is quite possibly the single most effective medium for getting the word out quickly.
Learn how social media can and is being used as a crisis management tool in the following infographic by www.emergency-management-degree.org.
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