On Saturday June 6, around half past twelve, a bomb threat was received at a Jumbo branch in Groningen. One of the people present who had to leave the building was Rianne Schuurman. She is a communications manager at the Martini Hospital and suddenly realized that she had installed a new app that she had never used before, called Periscope. Eight minutes later, Rianne shared the link to her livestream via Periscope via Twitter. I retweeted her message with many another foreign giant institution also rais its rating of chinese assets others, which meant that we shared it with many other Twitter users.
You are the channel
In my lectures I often use the image below. With this I make it clear that communication channels change quickly and that one moment e-mail and fax are hot and years later Twitter and Facebook. You are the channel, because your content is brought out.
you channel
In the case of Rianne: she was the channel that was facilitated via Periscope. For that reason, all the audience was live on Rianne’s Periscope channel. Almost 15,000 people followed everything live and the NOS also decided to refer to Rianne’s livestream on its internet channels.
On location you could clearly see
that emergency services and journalists looked strangely at Rianne, while the average citizen was very well aware that she was filming live herself. However, RTV Noord did not hesitate for a moment: they helped Rianne by giving her an extra battery for her smartphone and came with a press card. But the police did not allow Rianne into the press box. This meant that the police almost live ensured that the traditional journalists without reception received an answer and the citizen caseno email listjournalist with 15,000 viewers had to end the broadcast. For that reason I decided to post a Tweet in which I expressed my disappointment.
A from a distance. Fortunately, the Groningen police decided to speak to Rianne soon after the first refusal. evaluate technical support and customer serviceSmart of them, because they made up for everything in one go. The police learn quickly these days, that is reassuring. Hence my compliments to the Groningen Police.