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Tonight was a red letter day for the Emergency 2.0 Wiki team as we finalised and launched the Emergency 2.0 Wiki for launch.

The team has worked tirelessly over the last few months preparing the ground for the launch tonight, setting up the technical and social connections as well as al the other contacts with stakeholders, volunteer and emergency organisations and government agencies. We are looking for experts in the different content areas to help build the content.

• Emergency Preparation
• Emergency Response
• Emergency Recovery
• Business Continuity
• Crisis Communications
• Employee Engagement
• Volunteer Engagement
• Technology and Innovation
• Risk and Mitigation
• Policies and Procedures
• Recordkeeping

All the details can be found in the blog post on the Emergency 2.0 Wiki blog site.

Go on - I dare you to watch this video and then not share it with anybody.

Samsung will sell phones based on this ad - even if they were useless!

If you don't know what Google+ is then you can read on and find out . Google+ unlike Twitter, Yammer, LinkedIn, Live Messenger or Facebook is not just a social network. And while all those mentioned have different elements of social networking in them unique in most cases to each one, Google+ contains elements of them all, and then does it a completely different way.

The most different thing about Google+ is the circles. Simply put circles are overlapping groups that can be created very easily and you can add your contacts to them. You can then easily share posts with different circles. If you need a new circle for a specific reason, just create one, add some people to it and away you go. Additionally, people don't need to be your "friends" in order to follow you and vice versa. Thus you can broadcast to a circle including people who aren't following you, ad they can broadcast to you. Muting or blocking a person is easy.

Hangouts and Huddles are real time chat tools for web and mobile allowing some pretty cool interactivity to occur.

But how can this be used for business, or even should it be used?

I think there are a number of things to consider here.

I am blogging the HTC Desire S and Le Tour for HTC. The posts I write are all up on their public wall along with the other two HTC Desire S Ambassadors writing from Australia, Shane Miller (no relation) and Scott Fitzgerald.

You can see all the HTC Diaries posts or just my posts.

I will update this article with links to each post as I write them.

• Unwrapping the HTC Desire S
• Personalising the HTC Desire S
• Following Le Tour on the HTC Desire S