What is a Virtual Operations Support Team?
Note: The Texas Governor's Committee on Persons with Disabilities suggests, from a disability perspective: You can also have a Disability Virtual Operations Support Team (DVOST) that via social media actively advises on issues related to people with disabilities and those with access and functional needs during a disaster.
VOST can be defined as a team that accomplishes some or all of the following:
Footnote for above: Read full document : http://tinyurl.com/9wlo8pc
Additional Information: Virtual Operations Support Team:
http://idisaster.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/what-is-a-virtual-operations-support-team/
Note: The Texas Governor's Committee on Persons with Disabilities suggests, from a disability perspective: You can also have a Disability Virtual Operations Support Team (DVOST) that via social media actively advises on issues related to people with disabilities and those with access and functional needs during a disaster.
VOST can be defined as a team that accomplishes some or all of the following:
- Establishes a social media presence for an organization that previously did not use social networking tools to communicate with the public;
- Monitors social media communications;
- Handles matters that can be executed remotely through digital means such as assisting with the management of donations or volunteers;
- Follows social media and traditional media trends and reports back to the organization what is being seen;
- Identifies misinformation or angry postings that need to be corrected or dealt with;
- Provides a supportive voice for the organization and its efforts;
- Amplifies the organization’s message by repeating content (via personal and/or official social media accounts);
- Compiles media coverage (traditional and non-traditional) by date;
- Documents Social Media Conversation
Footnote for above: Read full document : http://tinyurl.com/9wlo8pc
Additional Information: Virtual Operations Support Team:
http://idisaster.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/what-is-a-virtual-operations-support-team/