About Frans Hoffman
After a career in academia and government, Frans Hoffman emigrated to the US in 1995. He worked as an executive web producer for Netscape Netcenter, Apple and other companies in Silicon Valley. In 2005, Frans and his wife Linda responded to Hurricane Katrina and joined Best Friends Command Center. Later, Frans helped Best Friends reorganize its operations in Tylertown, Mississippi. In December 2005 and January 2006 Frans and Linda deployed to Tylertown, Mississippi. After Katrina, Frans was a regional coordinator for Best Friends Rapid Response Team. He later joined Noah's Wish as an assistant coordinator, a position from which he resigned in October 2011. Frans and Linda are co-founders of several animal disaster response groups in Contra Costa. Their latest project is the Contra Costa County Animal Response Team (CoCo CART, 2011). Frans writes and speaks about animal disaster response and is the editor of usDART, the national portal for animal disaster responders.
Over the last couple of months disaster responders worldwide have seen how Twitter and Facebook have become indispensable tools for communities hit by disasters. Recently, in tornado-hit areas in the USA people quickly put up Facebook pages to post updates, … Continue reading →
