Day 3 presentations
Posted: March 27, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »Selected presentations from Day 3 of inFIRE 2012, Thursday 1st March
Edward Metz, USFA Library, joined us by video link-up and talked about his Fire Files Digital Library
Emma Roache, NZFS, talked about the NZFS Library and social media
Dr Ganesh Nana, BERL, Learnings from the costs of fire, and the place of libraries in fire research
Colin Clemens, NZFS, talked about the Heads up Learning documents produced by his team – the Fire Research and Investigation Unit.
Day 2 presentations
Posted: March 26, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »Selected presentations from Day 1 of inFIRE 2012, Wednesday 29th February
Amanda Robbins, BRANZ, demonstrated the Fire Research Hub. Check it out and give her some feedback.
Smita Biswas, Tauranga City Library. Recording the Rena: Tauranga City Library’s response to disaster in real time.
Smita Biswas Documenting Rena – 2012
Lynn Campbell, Christchurch City Gallery. The Canterbury earthquakes: lessons learned.
Lynn Campbell Preservation inFIRE 2012
Mats Bornström, Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency. The place of libraries in the development of decision support systems.
Mats Bornstrom Libraries inFIRE 2012
Dr Ian Miller. What do we know about human behaviour underlying fatal fires?
Day 1 presentations
Posted: March 22, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »Selected presentations from Day 1 of inFIRE 2012, Tuesday 28th February
Mitchell Brown, NZFS. Research, Data and Information applied at an Emergency
Mitchell Brown Research, Data and Information InFIRE
Mitchell Brown, NZFS. Workshop – Research, data and information applied at an Emergency
Workshop – Research, Data and Information Applied ay an Emergency
Dan Coward, NZFS. The Christchurch earthquakes: the NZFS response, the challenges, and new directions
Dan Coward – inFIRE Presentation – 28-02-12
Stacey Smith, PWC. What’s new at PWC? From Knowledge Services to Research and Insights.
Dr Brenda Chawner, Victoria University of Wellington. Facing the future:technology trends and the information profession
April Flux, NZFS. Get rid of the books – it’s all electronic now
April Flux It’s all electronic now
Workshop write-up – Easy Win Marketing
Posted: March 22, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »Held: Friday 2 March
Facilitator: Library team, NZFS
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Purpose: to have a marketing strategy to take back to your organisation and implement in your library. Challenge: all 2012 delegates to report back to inFIRE 2013 with the results of your marketing push. In person or remotely/ email. |
1. Brainstorm of quick, easy marketing ideas (included ideas emailed prior to conference)
2. Pick top 3 ideas
Personal visits / Attend conferences and conventions / Get published in a journal
3. Divide delegates into 3 teams
4. Each team picks an idea from the top three. Team with best recent marketing feedback got to choose first…
…… won by Sue Marsh (NFPA) won for Team 1
5. Each team works out implementation plan for their idea.
Team 1 – Personal visits
Get included in induction programme
Invite new employees to lunch/ coffee – catch up time
Mentoring – offer expertise on your org. Become the go-to person for internal info.
Encourage them to feed info back to you – “way to influence”
Build relationships
Modify orientation to meet specific needs
Get a hit list (new staff) – schedule them for visits in the 2nd month of starting, settle in time
Refresher / group sessions
Remote / decentralised clients
Create handout with key info =- book mark? Keyring?
Team 2 – Attend conferences and conventions
Get yourself onto agenda of senior management meetings
Identify opportunities to attach yourself to other groups in your org. when they are going to conferences, activities
Strategies to use: play politics / find champions / be a squeaky wheel / promote resources / be a busy-body / invite other units to Library (have food!) / use your elevator pitch
Team 3 – Get published in a journal
What journal? Identify other external journals
Extend to other media
Content – Topical and current interest / “sexy” / draw in with questions, humour
What audience? Can you fulfil what you promise?
Advice from Comms on graphics. Read and check and edit – final proof.
Policy/ Comms
Feedback – Monitor / outcomes / review
Researchers – ask them to acknowledge your service
Photos
Posted: March 14, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »Check out the inFIRE 2012 photos on inFIREweb’s Gallery.
Thanks to Jennifer Nielsen and Mitchell Brown for taking the shots.
Workshop write up – Research, Data and Information
Posted: March 8, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized 1 Comment »Held: Tuesday 28th February
Facilitator: Mitchell Brown, Area Manager, Manawatu, NZFS
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Purpose: give delegates the opportunity to review their organisational Research, Data and Information capability and capacity to support a major event. |
Workshop format: In groups, discuss the role your organisation has and the practical application of research, data and information for supporting emergency management.
Share your organisation’s practical solutions and applications for the 4 R’s of emergency management.
Reduction
| Group 1 Manawatu Gorge – landslide incident NZTA – engineering knowledge
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Group 2 Tech transfer – fire danger ratings / fire permitsFire safety / education / human behaviour / contestable research Fire protection engineering / evacuation / detection Codes + standards |
Group 3 Advocacy for legislationEvidence to support new codes, standards, SOPsMOUs among agencies |
Readiness
| Group 1 | Group 2 Standards – building F. S.Relationships – professional / across agencies Operational procedures Training Building / risk assessment Fire danger ratings + weather = warnings! Decisions on resource deployment |
Group 3 PSAs – Public Service AnnouncementsInspections + enforcement Best practice sharing Training – new technologies Community education |
Response
| Group 1 NZTA – contractors / engineersNZFS – incident management MetService Telecom / Vodafone / 2 degrees (mobile networks)
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Group 2 Expert in field – understands fire behaviour patternsDeployment Incident Management Communications Rescue Building safety – site inspection Co-ordination |
Group 3 Co-ordination among agenciesInformation pipeline Social media – collect + monitor + disseminate |
Recovery
| Group 1 NZTA- contractorsMedia Regional councils – flood / sediment +TA $$$$ |
Group 2 Fire investigationRecovery of vegetation Data collection on community resilience / social research – leads back to resilience Operational investigations Lessons learned Case studies |
Group 3 Getting community back to normalSourcing information Gathering and analysing info to apply to future Connection people for lessons learned + best practices – experts Archiving info |
Participants hard at work
Photo credit: Mitchell Brown, NZFS.
inFIRE delegates 2012
Posted: March 8, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »
Photo credit: Jennifer Nielsen.
Maki Tumu, NZFS. Maria Nagelkerke, DIA (NZ). Rachael ‘Asi, DIA (NZ). Alison Lane, NZTA. Sue Marsh, NFPA (USA). Suzanne Lester, BRANZ. Emma Roache, NZFS (at the back). Elizabeth Hides, Fire and Emergency Services Authority, Western Australia. Andries Labuschagne, BRANZ (at the back). Jennifer Nielsen, Combined Queensland Emergency Service. Connie Coniglio, AIPM (Sydney). Mats Bornstrom, Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, Karlstad (at the back). Julie Wyner, FRNSW. April Flux, NZFS.
More photos, presentations, and proceedings to come.
