During disasters such as Hurricane Ike, common-sense advice on how creative use of common, mobile personal communication devices, from cameraphones to wifi laptops, plus Web 2.0 apps ranging from wikis to Twitter, can empower the general public to be full partners in homeland security and disaster response.

I'm homeland security, disaster management, & Web 2.0 consultant, specializing in innovative strategies -- what I call networked homeland security -- to make the public full partners in homeland security and disaster preparation and response