Disasters are Different Blog
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Shadows in EOCs
Seeing Shadows in EOCs — Or, The Time We Almost Got Raided by the FBI Organizational behaviorists, sociologists, and philosophers…
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Whole Community
The Problem with the Whole Community Approach Over the past few weeks, I’ve written about discouraging community donations, telling trained…
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Do Not Self-Deploy
Coordination versus Command We’ve talked about how our messaging discourages community donations and tells trained volunteers to wait for instructions.…
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Waiting for Instructions
Waiting for Instructions: The CERT Paradox Just as our donation messaging can discourage helpful action, our volunteer doctrine may be…
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