Due to the overload of the networks, to forward their numbers, so that they could contact the home front in their place.
Various companies also showed their solidarity and offered facilities such as sleeping places, parking spaces and internet hotspots to the festival-goers.
And the 'influencers' in turn used their large network en masse to give all the israel phone number list messages of help a broader basis. Well-known Belgian Twitter users such as @netlash, @lamazone, @joke , @fdgraeve , @patrickdewitte and many others did everything they could to maximize the reach of the aid messages.
What lessons can we learn from this?
It is extremely difficult to properly estimate a devastating storm like this and to be perfectly prepared as an organization for such a scenario. A disaster like this was most likely unavoidable. But we can learn a number of important lessons about the role of media and communication in this whole.
Media has become a matrix model: classic media clearly no longer have a monopoly on news distribution. Media distribution has become a collaboration of a broad movement of ordinary citizens, organizations, (local) governments and companies, who are given the opportunity to communicate on the same scale as the classic news channels. The traditional media players must find their position in this new story and also play a relevant and meaningful role in the social 'streams'.