Valley City Crisis Communication

4. Complete blog on crisis communication research you are conducting.

For the Communications Research Project I chose to write my paper about Valley City, its never ending flood battle, and all the people who are involved. Although we just got assigned this paper a few days ago there are a few things that I've done toward working on this project.

Well first off I read the assignment and the directions. Sounds like it is going to be about a 8-10 pager.....YIKES!!!!!! I chose to write about Valley City because there are a few people heavily involved in the fight that I know personally. This includes many firemen, policemen, and city officials. By knowing at least a few of these people it will give me a heads up on knowing a few of the techniques used to get messages out to the public. Right now im looking up information on people I would like to contact, which includes Mayor Mary Neilson, the fire chief, Head of Public works Jeff Differdy, and Bald Hill dam Manager Rich Schuenamen. As of right now I know of most of the ways that city officials used to try and reach the public. These include the radio stations, twitter, facebook, TV stations, the fire alarm, and through email. This website is a great contact website for the town of Valley City. http://valleycity.govoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={FD4A4F2C-6378-438A-9BCD-19EDF87E79CB}

I will conduct research to find out exactly what stations. For the most part I know what message each type of contact method was trying to deliver but I will reasearch to make sure. I know the LOOOOOOONNNNNGGGGG ring of the firealarm was when they were in need of more sandbaggers. When this went off people were supposed to report to the Winter Show for sandbagging duty. Although there may of been a few bumps and bruises along the way, over all I think the city of Valley City did a great job communication in this time of crisis.