[EAS] [BWWG] Can this be true?

[Dave Kline]

To that end, Nebraska has just initiated an EMA (Endangered Missing Advisory) system.
It appears that this will rely heavily on social media to get the word out.

http://www.omaha.com/news/nebraska/new-nebraska-system-to-alert-public-when-vulnerable-adults-children/article_91e46523-5bdf-51fc-94ff-672b17f17df1.html
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Dave Kline
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On Jan 24, 2018, at 7:54 AM, Richard Rudman wrote:

> We should have no problem with using social media for public alerting as long as the EM community does not lose the core concepts in the PPW reports based on years of solid warning research. We did not know about Twitter when we wrote the reports, but we all suspected new ways to reach the public would be devised once we had an international standard non-proprietary open source thing called the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP).