Disaster Strikes Schroon Lake: A Baby’s Cries Saves Four?

A hotel collapse in Schroon Lake?  Four people and a baby injured? 10,000 without power? That was the buzz on Twitter on Tuesday, as several Tweets gave graphic descriptions of the doom and gloom Schroon was dealing with after a “severe storm” ravaged our lakeside hamlet.

Except there was no hotel collapse or power outage or any injuries we know of that day (maybe a bad case of sun burn, perhaps)

Turns out the “Schroon Lake Disaster” was a lesson for graduate journalism students at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication at Syracuse University. The students attended a faux news conference and using the power of the social media site Twitter, used 140 characters to get the news out.

 “This was part of a class exercise for graduate students in our summer news reporting class,” teacher Jon Glass told us in a Tweet yesterday.

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Will Twitter Tweak Tourism?

        

Could social media be a boon for the summer tourism season in the Adirondacks?

The Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism President James McKenna is banking on it, and promoting Schroon Lake is one of their priorities,  according to the Press Republican: 

"We've launched new sites. Schroon Lake has one up and running. A new Lake Champlain site is in the process. That will be running before the summer starts. Lake Placid and Wilmington (websites) are being updated."

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