Crowdsourcing

Power of Community and Gaming Principles: Challenges and Opportunities for Strategic Communicators Guest Blog Post by Karen Freberg

Posted by on May 20, 2012 at 4:45 pm

Mobile devices (ex. smartphones and tablets) are equipped with social media applications that allow crisis communicators the opportunity to create, curate, and disseminate information to impacted stakeholders during a crisis. This information can be shared through visual (photos and videos), textual (press releases and statements), or geolocation applications (crowdsourcing capabilities) to reduce levels of uncertainty. [...]