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The emergency management community has only just begun to utilize social media networks to capture the collective knowledge of the public during natural disasters and other emergencies to direct response and save lives. But to do this effectively and efficiently your organization and community need a social media strategy. Merely adding a Twitter or RSS feed to your emergency management plan is not a strategy.

The short "conversation thread" that follows is illustrative of how Fire & EMS leaders can become more connected—if we make the effort—and better positioned to inform, educate, and influence current and future Fire & EMS leaders. Until I hear otherwise, I'm "staking a claim" and calling this Thought Leadership Media, or TL Media for short.