Communications

Ask what an organization needs to do better during a major incident and "communicate" may be one of the top 5 items.

 During a major incident (not involving your communication infrastructure): how does your organization handle communication internally as well as with the end-users or your service consumers?

Do you use of some of the newer Web 2.0 tools like Wikis and Blogs? or does word-of-mouth, or some other medium?

My organization is looking at improving internal communications during major incidents and there are no shortages of ideas. I was curious as how others handle communication during these events.



In a company that I was working for as a consultant if someone called the help desk they were first informed about already reported issues and their statuses. If the user's incident didnt match any of the known issues they were connected to an agent.

Suggestion: 

Adding a section on current issues the intranet portal may be a quick way to inform users.