Media Stream Digest for November 28th
New Hub Message: Media Stream Digest for November 21st http://bit.ly/6mqyaZ [piosmtraining]

Social Media PIO Uses Blog Talk Radio to Broadcast Holiday Cooking Safety Tips
Bill Delaney of Montgomery County Fire Rescue used Blog Talk Radio to create a podcast about Holiday (really year round) cooking safety tips. Blog Talk Radio is a free social media tool to record a podcast. The file can be embedded in a site as I have done below, accessed from Blog Talk Radio, or used to generate a podcast. Blog Talk Radio allows live call in and text chat. I called in with two of my questions and was pleased to interact with Bill voice-to-voice. Previously we have interacted just on Twitter and Facebook.

Badges and Buttons for Spokes
A common feature for the Hubs of Emergency Response Agency websites is badges and buttons that link to the agency spokes. Remember some of the spokes you can link to from your hub include: Facebook Twitter YouTube Flickr Twitter has a set of buttons available as a link from the Twitter Goodies page. Adding a Twitter button is as simple as copying the HTML code associated with button and pasting it into a widget, sidebar, post, or page.

7 Types Of Blog Posts For Public Safety And Emergency Responder Agencies
Once your Agency has established a blog, it is important to create fresh content so that its growth does not stagnate. Otherwise it eventually will suffer from dystrophy and become useless. There are many different ideas and theories regarding ideal posting frequency and the posting day/time. This is something you can decide best practice by performing an analysis of a blog’s analytics. As a simple guideline for any Agency to use before such a

Media Stream Digest for November 21st
New Hub Message: Media Stream Digest for November 14th http://bit.ly/45gjUH [piosmtraining]