LFW Academy · Website editors track · P3

Emergency Notices on Your Website

Keep a fast emergency page every alert points to, post a first notice in five minutes, keep it current and practice twice a year.

6 lessons · about 92 minutes · Practitioner

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The first lesson of Emergency Notices on Your Website, What the emergency page is for, on LFW.com.

6 lessons, about 92 minutes.

Each lesson is a short video or a WordPress simulation, with notes, a task at your institution and a short quiz. The list marks the ones still being made.

You will be able to.

  • Keep a fast emergency page at an address residents know
  • Post a first notice from a template in five minutes
  • Timestamp updates and keep every channel saying the same thing
  • Know how the alert bar, opt-in alerts and IPAWS phone alerts fit together
  • Close out, archive and review after an event
  • Run a tabletop drill twice a year

Course facts

Level
Practitioner
Length
About 90 minutes, in six lessons ending in a drill
For
Communications staff, public information officers, clerks and emergency managers.
Before you start
Writing for Residents is recommended.
Assessment
Your own notice templates and channel list, and a tabletop drill with a written list of fixes.