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Social Media and Village Crisis Comms – Local Gov Councils and Emergency Services #NSWFires

Laurel Papworth

Curating Facebook status updates and tweets and community information, they worked hard to bring the sort of information that an official news service might miss or deem trivial. One of their users’ story about her brother the fireman in Winmalee had 10,000 likes and 600 comments in 20 minutes.