Campus emergency expert discusses the importance of social media, text messaging
The night before Byron Piatt was scheduled to speak about campus emergencies at the 2014 ACUTA conference in Dallas, Texas, his campus was experiencing an emergency of its own.
Protestors clashed with Albuquerque police on March 30 following days of demonstrations over a series of deadly police shootings. The University of New Mexico, where Piatt works as an emergency manager, lies at the heart of the city, and the confrontation spilled onto campus.
At 9 p.m., the university’s Twitter account sent out a tweet to its 19,000 followers.…Read More