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When disaster strikes, people nearly always evacuate and return home with their smartphones. Learn how NDSU Ag Communication staff worked with an NDSU-student-led company to develop two smartphone apps for Android and iOS. The Disaster Recovery Log lets users record damage with photos, text and audio and download the entries, and provides clean-up information. The Winter Survival Kit helps stranded motorists monitor their fuel level, alerts them to clear the exhaust pipe to avoid carbon monoxide poisoning, pinpoints their location, notifies selected contacts and provides safety information. Agricultural communication staff will share how they brainstormed how to take advantage of the phone’s interactive features, worked with the student developers and publicized the apps.
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Disasters: There’s an App for That!
Becky Koch and Bob BertschNDSU Agriculture Communication
North Dakota flooding, The National Guard, available under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license
ND National Guard Flood Response, Dave
Haasser, available under a Creative
Commons Attribution 2.0 license
Download H2O -
Helping to Organize
for Android
http://www.myriaddevices.com
“Just because people may be able to view your PC Website with a mobile device... doesn’t mean it is a pleasant or fulfilling experience.” - MobileThinking.com
Pictured: Texting, Joi Ito, available under
a Creative Commons
Attribution 2.0 license
(Pictured: "Please Pay Here 3-14-09 19", Steven Depolo, available under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license)
Special Needs Grant
• Create 10 YouTube videos• Conduct six Ready Business and Family
Preparedness train-the-trainer webinars• Create EDEN’s Ready Business and
Family Preparedness courses in Moodle• Instead of Moodle courses, disaster
recovery smartphone app
Disaster Recovery Log
• Helps people record information about damages to home and property using text, images and audio
• Download from Android market
• www.ag.ndsu.edu/ extension/apps
Add Disaster
• Title: June 24, 2011, Souris River Flood
• Description: House had 6 feet water on main floor, back to ground level July 20, basement drained Aug. 8-12
Details
• First Things First• Safety
Details
• Type in description or record audio (Add Voice)
• Pull down for educational info
• Take photo
Resource Information
• Appliances/Electronics• Carpets/Floors• Clothing/Fabrics• Food• Furniture• Gardens/Landscapes• Home (Structural)• Household Items
Photos
• Take a photo• Pull a photo from your
file (gallery)
Export
• Download info for records, FEMA, insurance, etc.
Winter Survival Kit
• Helps people help you find their current location, call 911 and notify your friends and family.
• Download from Google Play & Apple App Store
• www.ag.ndsu.edu/ extension/apps
Stranded
• Get your location• Call 911• Tell your family &
friends• Alerts keep you
awake and aware of risk of CO poisoning
Promotion
• NDSU Extension Apps web site
• News releases• Social media• EDEN
Results
• Local press & media• National press &
media• Online news sites &
blogs• Live shot on Weather
Channel• Top 12 educational
app in App Store
Results
Total installs – 1,973
Total installs – 58,000
Twitter - @ndbob
Facebook – Bob Bertsch
Google + - Bob Bertsch
Becky [email protected]
Facebook – Becky Koch
