Good Morning Johnson County!

It's another quiet day in the office. Many of the employees hold seminars and classes to spread safety information, which means they pop in and out all the time. Something cool I got done this week was creating Johnson County Emergency Management's own network on a website called ning! Check us out here.

Looking forward to the weekend, especially sunny weather in the 50's on Saturday! I love little teasers of the spring weather that should be here in just a matter of weeks. That also means that our Severe Weather Awareness Week is coming up on March 8th through the 14th. Keep an eye on the Johnson County Emergency Preparedness Blog for details coming soon.

Oops

Today was interesting. I was alerted to over 300 Trojan viruses that were (supposedly) destroying my computer. After about an hour with an IT specialist, no trojans were discovered. Go figure. I was tricked by an internet pop-up. Embarrassing! But I'm glad I did not destroy any of the county's computers.

The Johnson County Emergency Management & Homeland Security Facebook pages and applications are going well. If you have a Facebook account, please feel free to check it out! We have a MySpace profile that has just been launched as well, so look for us on either site. Hopefully you'll like our attempts to utilize these communication mediums. If you have any comments or questions, please comment :)

Suggestions

My job is to create a stronger presence for the Johnson County Emergency Management office in social networking communities. I have the websites Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube on my list. Have any suggestions of other popular social networking sites where Johnson County Emergency Management should create a profile?

Please comment to share your ideas, I would really appreciate your suggestions. Thank you!

Week 1

I've been an intern at the Johnson County Emergency Management & Homeland Security office for a week now. My job is to utilize online social networking websites and other web 2.0 communication avenues. So far work has been great! I've been received like a true member of the team and already have great support for my first project: Facebook pages.

If you have a facebook account, type in "Johnson County Emergency," click on our page, and become a fan! There is also a profile named "JoCo EmergencyManagement," and our group called "5,000 Prepared Citizens." Feel free to add JoCo as a friend and join the group! We have links to several websites concerned with emergency preparedness, and although we are in Johnson County, Kansas, we would like people from all over the country to use our information and links to better prepare themselves.

The people I work with are so knowledgeable in their areas...I feel like I have a lot to learn! :)
Check out http://www.jocoprepared.org to see the "Johnson County-- A Community Prepared" website. On this site I've already read about many things I can do to better prepare myself for all types of emergencies. Give it a glance and see what you can learn.