Comments on: Social Media Policies For EMS Agencies

By: Is Your Agency Worthy?

Is Your Agency Worthy? — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:23:19 +0000

[...] The term gets thrown around alot. I’ve already explained what Social Media actually is in plain english. [...]

By: 419onscene

419onscene — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 07:43:45 +0000

Well, I for one never fully understood the need for policies to cover everything in EMS. It seems they only exist to give shift commanders something to do. It’s not like EMS agencies simply ignore all of the policies they have that are inconvenient fro them at the time.
Besides, EMS policies generally go something like this:

1. Somebody does something stupid
2. The perpetrator of #1 gets fired, claims whatever they did is not against any policies.
3. A policy gets written to prevent #1 from happening again But, alas. there’s never a shortage of EMS folks doing something stupid (myself included).
4. The company ignores all of the other policies.
7. The state takes two years and four different commitees to come to no particular position on problem #1.
6. Awhile passes, and the idiot who did #1 gets rehired as a supervisor (because nobody is still around that remembers he did #1, anyway).

By: Because Craig Fugate Says So

Because Craig Fugate Says So — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:06:18 +0000

[...] it holds is what needs to be done. If you have ever doubted what I said before about the need for EMS Agencies to have Social Media Policies or the need to become a trusted information source in a crisis… then let that doubt end [...]

By: What Sarah Palin Showed Us About Social Media | David Konig

What Sarah Palin Showed Us About Social Media | David Konig — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:06:30 +0000

[...] what exactly has this shown us about Social Media? It shows us that if you establish a social media presence and become a trusted source of information, in a time of informational crisis Old Media will turn [...]