FEMA's new Think Tank Project
A New Collaboration Community FEMA has created a new "Collaboration Community" where stakeholders can come to a forum-type website and view, contribute and comment on conversations about emergency preparedness, disaster response and recovery, and other emergency management topics. They are calling this the " FEMA Think Tank ". The FEMA web page giving background information on the Think Tank is at www.fema.gov/thinktank . The site has gotten off to a great start since being announced at the IAEM conference last week. As of today, the usage statistics show that 72 ideas have been posted with 199 comments and 613 votes from 389 users. The ideas are very interesting, some are a bit off topic, some are venting, and some are a bit redundant. However, I am sure that FEMA is getting a lot of good ideas from the stream of consciousness presented on the site already. How does it work? The site is built to run on user ideas and votes. Users submit their id...