Online Response to 9-11 Terrorist Attacks - Presentation Transcript
9:56 am Brendan Hodgson, Senior Consultant, HK Netcoms (CANADA) Sept 14, 2001 1 hour after first plane hits WTC – all quiet
Brendan Hodgson, Senior Consultant, HK Netcoms (CANADA) Sept 14, 2001 10:00 am 1:15 after first plane hits WTC
Brendan Hodgson, Senior Consultant, HK Netcoms (CANADA) Sept 14, 2001 9:30 – 11:30 am US/CAN News sites are overloaded
11:01 am Brendan Hodgson, Senior Consultant, HK Netcoms (CANADA) Sept 14, 2001 First reaction by airlines
11:01 am Brendan Hodgson, Senior Consultant, HK Netcoms (CANADA) Sept 14, 2001 AMR hits the crisis shadow page
11:15 am Brendan Hodgson, Senior Consultant, HK Netcoms (CANADA) Sept 14, 2001 United site still unchanged
11:15 am Brendan Hodgson, Senior Consultant, HK Netcoms (CANADA) Sept 14, 2001 2 hrs 30 min after first plane hits WTC
11:16 am Brendan Hodgson, Senior Consultant, HK Netcoms (CANADA) Sept 14, 2001 2 hrs 30 min after Bush’s Florida statement: no mention
11:16 am Brendan Hodgson, Senior Consultant, HK Netcoms (CANADA) Sept 14, 2001 First AMR release posted
11:19 am Brendan Hodgson, Senior Consultant, HK Netcoms (CANADA) Sept 14, 2001 UAL launches shadow site
Brendan Hodgson, Senior Consultant, HK Netcoms (CANADA) Sept 14, 2001 11:38 am First news portal is accessed (by me, anyway)
11:47 am Brendan Hodgson, Senior Consultant, HK Netcoms (CANADA) Sept 14, 2001 UAL starts regular updates
11:54 am Brendan Hodgson, Senior Consultant, HK Netcoms (CANADA) Sept 14, 2001 Finally able to access trimmed down CNN site
12:11 pm Brendan Hodgson, Senior Consultant, HK Netcoms (CANADA) Sept 14, 2001 UAL issues second release
1:11 pm Brendan Hodgson, Senior Consultant, HK Netcoms (CANADA) Sept 14, 2001 Eyewitness coverage moves over email. Of course, this is only one example
1:14 pm Brendan Hodgson, Senior Consultant, HK Netcoms (CANADA) Sept 14, 2001 The competition weighs in
1:15 pm Brendan Hodgson, Senior Consultant, HK Netcoms (CANADA) Sept 14, 2001 The White House acknowledges tragedy
1:17 pm Brendan Hodgson, Senior Consultant, HK Netcoms (CANADA) Sept 14, 2001 News sites make WTC story exclusive
1:19 pm Brendan Hodgson, Senior Consultant, HK Netcoms (CANADA) Sept 14, 2001 News sites acknowledge high traffic issues
1:20 pm Brendan Hodgson, Senior Consultant, HK Netcoms (CANADA) Sept 14, 2001 UAL crisis site expands with fact sheets
Those interested in seeing how organizations - incl more
Those interested in seeing how organizations - including governments, corporations, media and airlines -- responded in the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist attacks, might find this sampling of online activity of interest. It should be noted (albeit obvious), that the online environment was considerably different then than now. Timelines are estimates. Then as now, the intent was neither to praise nor criticize any organizations' online response, but simply to capture events as they unfolded. Comments welcome. less
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