John M. Lawson

Leading development of advanced emergency alerting, news, and info with @AWARNAlliance. Speaker on disaster resilience for associations. Views my own. 😎

[John M. Lawson @ConvergenceDTV]

AWARN Alliance Positioned for the Future, Transitions to New Leadership as Lawson Launches Advanced Alerting Venture. https://t.co/ir0lvzvdvo via @LinkedIn

[John M. Lawson @ConvergenceDTV]

Check out my latest article: My Dad and The Bomb https://t.co/X3HGIoe79T via @LinkedIn

[John M. Lawson @ConvergenceDTV]

Check out my latest article: America’s Emergency Network, https://t.co/DL5dFBPQdo Team for Advanced Alerting, Disaster Channel https://t.co/kg7LqcZkLI via @LinkedIn

[John M. Lawson @ConvergenceDTV]

Heading to Disaster Expo USA for America's Emergency Network, LLC. We'll showcase AEN Alert with a battery-powered ATSC 3.0 receiver from https://t.co/n5teHWXV5B and AEN-TV, our reality channel with emergency content. I'm honored to be speaking. Reg. code 50FREEAMERICASEMERGENCY.

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Successful Advanced Emergency Information Roundtables Show Potential for ATSC 3.0 Alerting https://t.co/2MFYYfzq53

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Emergency Management Officials, Broadcasters to Convene for AWARN Roundtable https://t.co/I4T6a3wlzq

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Broadcasters And Emergency Managers To Gather For AWARN Washington Roundtable https://t.co/0KYXyk3mUy via @TVNewsCheck

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AWARN Santa Barbara Roundtable for Next Gen Emergency Messaging https://t.co/IfFSE4NyEV

[John M. Lawson @ConvergenceDTV]

@FOTComm @jimsteyer @DevalPatrick @Texas2036 @MarshaBlackburn @SenBlumenthal @JRosenworcel Great report from FOT Comm! At https://t.co/HRMFlV5u3N, we were esp happy w/ innovation leadership Recommend. 4: 'Leverage tech tools to develop a personal security emergency alert system, similar to FEMA’s Integrated Public Alert & Warning System.' We now have tools to do that!

[Future of Tech Commission @FOTComm]

Today, we released the full Blueprint For Action for the #FutureOfTech.

“Now is the time [for] the federal government to update tech policy to make kids a priority.” -@JimSteyer

@DevalPatrick @Texas2036 @MarshaBlackburn @SenBlumenthal @JRosenworcel

https://t.co/ZbH1sAiDNN

[John M. Lawson @ConvergenceDTV]

I just re-published
'Machiavelli on How to Make Your Own Luck' https://t.co/cCbqEuy7Hf

[John M. Lawson @ConvergenceDTV]

NextGen TV Survey Details What Consumers Want in Emergency Information https://t.co/sqwnZfHRl6 This is about a terrific behavioral study that fills gaps in our understanding of how people respond to emergency information.

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AWARN Alliance Elects Chair, Vice Chair, New Members Of Steering Committee https://t.co/kMD4bNQAiH via @TVNewsCheck

[John M. Lawson @ConvergenceDTV]

Not going to my shared office on the marina today!

[Darcy Spencer @darcyspencer]

Old Town #Alexandria flooding again We are live at 11 am

[John M. Lawson @ConvergenceDTV]

I'm happy to post my "chat" from the AWARN Summit with Alex Amparo, Assistant Administrator of National Preparedness at FEMA. Leading 1400 employees across major components of FEMA for resilience, Alex provides unique insights on the role of alerting.
https://t.co/vdLlH7TYJf

[John M. Lawson @ConvergenceDTV]

Devastating floods spur new debate on how best to warn people https://t.co/Q5u1valzRd Much needed attention to the challenges of alerting with climate disasters. We are proposing a public-private initiative to build on progress for alerting improvements: https://t.co/HRMFlVn5sn

[John M. Lawson @ConvergenceDTV]

Revisiting FirstNet, the Public Safety Network Born from 9/11 https://t.co/Kf1UqodpGr Congrats to all who have worked to create FirstNet, a remarkable achievement! We now have a chance to improve emergency communications for the public, too. https://t.co/HRMFlVn5sn

[John M. Lawson @ConvergenceDTV]

FCC's 'Hurricane Ida Comm's Status Report' shows catastrophic cellular outage the day Ida hit. The same report shows that 17 of 19 TV stations were still operational, as were all FM stations. One more example of why we need AWARN, a modernized alerting system based on ATSC 3.0.

[John M. Lawson @ConvergenceDTV]

Not sure people could "opt out" in first WEA test in 2018.

[National Weather Service @NWS]

This year's Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) test messages will only be displayed on wireless handsets where subscribers have “opted-in” to receive them. This will allow for a nationwide test without disturbing the public.

Read more about opting in here: https://t.co/kvGqLyBCqy

[John M. Lawson @ConvergenceDTV]

@labry_de Great North Mountain on VA-WV border. Old-old but Grand.