Video messaging in the safety picture
Posted by Judy Breck on December 12, 2007
For the past two days I attended WebVideo Summit07, where I learned a great deal about the videos that are cascading on to websites and into mobile phones. One of the most interesting presentations was by a company called Veeker which is, among other things, serving as the platform of some citizen reporting via video to local NBC TV news stations.
The Veeker talk included an account of how citizen video reporting proved to be a significant safety factor in the wildfires earlier this fall. People reporting fire danger from onsite through their mobile devices made it possible in some cases for media to stay ahead of the danger curve in alerting their audiences.
As I listened, my thoughts shifted to how school staff and faculty could use video messaging for school safety. This may become an important piece in the school safety picture in our increasingly digital times. Veeker has an explanatory webpage about this new communications venue.
