The DHSEM Strategic Communications Team recently participated in a podcast with DC Public Safety Radio to discuss the Colorado Virtual Operations Support Team (COVOST) and the use of VOSTs in emergency management. Use this link to listen to the podcast:
http://media.csosa.gov/podcast/audio/2016/04/social-media-emergency-operations-virtual-operations-support-team/
The vision of the Colorado Virtual Operations Support Team (COVOST) is to provide the State of Colorado and our local Colorado communities a powerful and effective team of trusted agents whose mission is to provide increased situational awareness through an innovatively effective, efficient and elegant use of social media and other online or ‘virtual’ tools.