Los Angeles Fire Department = Tech Rockers

LAFD News & Information - LAFD Turns the Tables on a Tech Interview

"The Los Angeles Fire Department has earned a great deal of buzz this week regarding the Department's nascent on-line offerings, including our increasingly popular LAFD_ALERT service, Twitter Feed, Flickr Photo Gallery and YouTube Channel.

Earlier today, we received a call from Heather Havenstein, a Senior Reporter for Computerworld Magazine, seeking an interview by telephone to discuss the use of technology in LAFD Media and Public Relations.

Sure we said... but why be conventional?
Most LAFD stakeholders have seen the end result of such interviews. What if instead - in the spirit of Web 2.0, they could actually listen on-line as the interview took place, and then had an opportunity to speak with the reporter?

Heather kindly agreed. So, on Thursday, August 2, 2007 at 7:00AM Pacific Time, we'll be activating our internet-based LAFD TalkRadio to allow you to listen in and later participate, as we discuss present and future LAFD internet offerings with Computerworld Magazine.

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You go LAFD!

Since it started, I've found their blog very informative and their recent additional Web2 presence is also pretty darn cool. Now this? These guys are on the tech-ball.

I like how they are saying in the interview how, that besides their time, they are using free services. That all this coolness is not costing us, the taxpayers, big bucks (or hardly any bucks at all for that matter).

Remember this is a civil organization, and yet they seem to be more technology agile and aware than many (most?) companies...

Great job guys. You officially rock.  :)

 

[Listening to LAFD TalkRadio]