Posts Tagged: Blog
Saving Lives in Digital Age
Island Packet
HILTON HEAD -- One patient is short of breath, sweating and unable to move. Another looks and sounds fine, but reports feeling weak. Which one is having a heart attack? Case studies such as these are regularly posted t…
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Queen City Burns – Monday Morning Shoutout
This weeks Monday Morning Shoutout goes to Queen City Burns by Taj, a 24 y.o. firefighter in Queen City, Louisiana. Taj is trying to make a difference. He is part of the bloggers trying to make a cultural change in the fire service through writing, training, teaching, and learning. This crowd has actually got me working out half-regularly now and I thank them for the motivation and inspiration!
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The Way of The Chief
What constitutes the next leader of the fire service? Which qualities break someone out from the pack?
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24/7 Student of the Fire Service Blog – Monday Morning Shoutout
This weeks Monday Morning Shoutout goes to a new blog I found titled "24/7 Student of the Fire Service".
The blog states "Not a T-Shirt Guy's Blog (Protected by the First Amendment)"
I like what I read...I think this blog will gain some traction. This is a newer blog on the scene. Check it out.
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Monday Morning Shoutout – Just A Vollie
This weeks Monday Morning Shoutout goes to Just A Vollie. Just A Vollie is a fairly new blog on the scene and is actually a newer format to something that started out as an email blast.
Yeah...I know that it isn't Monday morning anymore, but when you keep my hours you learn to fit in what you can whenever time allows.
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The Fire Service Warrior – Monday Morning Shoutout
The Fire Service Warrior offers this unique "mission statement" that has been dubbed the Ethos of a Fire Service Warrior. Ethos? Yeah, I had to look it up although I kinda figured what he meant by it. Ethos: English word based on a Greek word and denotes the guiding beliefs or ideals that characterize a community, a nation or an ideology.
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Getting your Blog To Work For You, Making the Most of it, Creating a Network, and Gaining Readers
These tips can be useful for any bloggers, although some of the tips might be catered to the crowd on the FireEMSBlogs.com network. I have been blogging in some form or another for the past 6 years. I have not learned it all, and I realize that best practices can be altered, discovered, or modified daily.
I will follow up with many more "blog tips" in the future. This is a beginner "blog tip" to get new bloggers rolling and some extra tips for others who are looking for that extra boost.
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Should a Blogger get fired from her Full Time PR Job?
One of the challenges of writing a daily firematic blog and serving as a PIO of a volunteer department is making sure that my opinions do not affect my department negatively. This is what I must do regarding the general public’s perception of my department and this is also what I must do in the blogosphere.
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The TSA needs a Smiley Face
When I departed Long Island for Las Vegas a few days ago I noticed that the TSA was profiling blue hair. Oh I understand everyone is on edge with recent breeches, put this was the definitive example of perhaps spending too much time on the wrong person.
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Blog Persistence Pays Off
I was cleaning out my favorites file from Internet Explorer last night. Many websites that you initially list as a favorite fade fast from the memory. I came across a site I made a favorite about a year ago. The “Ambassablog” is an employee blog of the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority. Since I last looked several months ago, it has become an “award winning blog.”
This is a testament to Steven Shultz the deputy PR director for the Authority. We all know as PIO’s, whether in a paid or volunteer department, the difficult process at times of convincing the powers that be to use creative tools to enhance our relationship with both the public and employees. Sometimes it’s better to sun on the beach then go in the water and get hit by a big wave.
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Orem, Utah PIO reaches the public via social media
The Salt Lake Tribune just posted an interesting story about SGT Craig Martinez, the new Public Information Officer for the Orem Department of Public Safety. Martinez has scored a triple play with his use of social media via blog, Twitter and Facebook to help keep the residents of Orem safe and informed.
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Crisis Communications Review of the Austin IRS building crash and fire
I have taken a few days to review all the public information related quotes pertaining to the plane crash and fire in Austin, Texas.
From an Austin Fire Department perspective they did all the right things. On the fire ground their response, attack and search all followed SOP. During the initial news conference Austin Fire Chief Rhonda Mae Kerr spoke briefly, discussed the fire, thanked the Department and applauded the response of the entire unified command in the city. She turned the investigation over to the FBI.
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Fire Chief Blogs His Way Through Fire Academy Experience
Not only is he hanging it out on the line for all of his firefighters to see if he's got the right stuff to be considered one of their own, but he's exposing his fire academy laundry for the public to see through his blog. Both take a lot of guts for a 50-year old fire chief and I give him a lot of credit.
It's good reading and contains fire service and life lessons for all of us. Check out "On Scene with Car 1." See for yourself.
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Quick Takes
Thursday's Quick Takes: See why a firefighter's widow is unhappy with a blogger; Must see video of firetruck crash; Officials deny they turned down NIOSH on autopsy reports; OK chief charged; Color-blindness sinks firefighter's chances; Topless coffee shop reopens after fire; Fire chief accused of slugging former member; Reprimand for cop who handcuffed firefighter' Philly union sued by its own firefighters over race.
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South Carolina Blogging Update
Grant has just completed a full refurbishing of his weblog and also re-named it for the occasion. SConFire is now known as SCFireWire, South Carolina's Exclusive Fire News Source.
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I am looking for Bloggers who feed their RSS through Twitter
This may seem like a different language to some of you. The ones I am looking for will understand the question.
I am looking for bloggers who have a twitter account and feed their RSS feed through their Twitter Account.
This is for a future post on Fir…
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Monday Morning Shoutout – First Responder Liability
This weeks Monday Morning Shoutout goes to First Responder Liability. I am a newer reader to this blog, but by all appearances it seems as though it is a great blog. The blog states "Commentary on Legal Issues Facing Emergency Services".
The blog's auth…
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Wildfire in Greece
Check out these videos on a wildfire in Greece. Firefighters are battling one hell of a fire near Athens.
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Two Fully Involved House Fire Videos For You
First in Shreveport.
Second in BFD?
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Saturday Hotshot – First West Chester
This photo comes via PhillyFireNews.com and FirstWestChester.org where you can read more about this arson fire in a vacant dwelling. The First West Chester Fire Company has a ton of images from this fire on their site.
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