Class post

Today in class we briefly talked a little about how the web and other technologies played a part in the communication process in Monday's tragedy at Virginia Tech. In my other class we are talking about communications and how they are used in crisis situations, and one of the most important things is for the information to filter from the top down in an organization. so if we were to apply it to the Virginia Tech case, maybe there should have been better communication from the president to the students about the days events and maybe something could have been prevented. however, it was the students who did most of the communicating mostly through network sites such as Facebook. i guess cell phone signals were jamming often too due to the large volume of calls that people were making and after a while students began to post on their Facebook profiles whether they were okay or not. i just thought this was an interesting use of technology in a situation that you would never think of. and to close i would like to offer my condolences to those affected by that tragedy, my hearts and prayers are with all of you.