SMCNO Streams Live on LaunchPadTV, and Our Giveaways are Revealed

In the spirit of being truly social, and thanks to the generosity of the whole crew over at LaunchPad, we will stream this month's meeting live, LIVE on LaunchPad's internet channel: http://www.livestream.com/launchpadlive this Thursday evening. We will meet at 6pm, and our panel discussion will start at about 7pm. If you can't make the meeting this month, you still have a great opportunity to participate in our panel discussion, joining the chat room is as simple as choosing your username, and we will be taking your questions as well.
We have a great panel lined up to discuss their implementaion of Social Media and Web 2.0 tools into their disaster and crisis practices.

We've also got two $25 gift certificates to Borders to give away at this meeting!
We are all very excited about this month's meeting and we hope to see you in person or in the chatroom on livestream.com!

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Thursday, June 18th, 6pm at Launchpad
643 Magazine St.
Suite 102, New Orleans, LA 70130
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Hurricane and Crisis Discussion: How Web 2.0 Tools Can be Used in Crisis Situations

June marks the official start of hurricane season here in New Orleans and in the Gulf Coast Region. Has your business updated their Crisis Situation Guide and Procedures this year? What makes this year so different? There are now many Web 2.0 tools to incorporate into your Hurricane and Disaster Protocols.

Social Media can be a powerful tool to help keep in touch with people during a crisis situation, and we at Social Media Club NO would like to take this opportunity to share and discuss how you and your workplace can integrate Web 2.0 tools into your Crisis/Disaster Protocol.

We will be featuring 3 panelists that have embraced Web 2.0 tools as it relates to hurricane preparedness:

Stanford Rosenthal of www.levees.org will discuss how they realized that there was a conversation going on outside of their site and how they integrated tools to embrace and engage in the community dialogue and comment. Not to mention, the "reputation management" that comes into play if and when you have to go up against a Goliath like the Corps of Engineers.

Robert X. Fogarty of www.evacuteer.org, a volunteer recruitment and management organization will discuss how they are utilizing new tools to manage volunteers and to help organize the evacuation process.

Kayla Castille, of www.WDSU.com will discuss how the media is changing and embracing new web tools to track real time events and developments, particularly in crisis situations.

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Thursday, June 18th, 6pm at Launchpad
643 Magazine St.
Suite 102, New Orleans, LA 70130
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