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Satellite Communications in Disasters

Disaster Zone Podcast

Communications in disasters has always been an issue—across the board. In this podcast we dive into what makes communications so difficult in a disaster and how having communications options and redundancy is critical. Communications in disasters has always been an issue—across the board. Today’s guest is James Clevenger.

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Crisis Communications as Damage Control

Disaster Zone Podcast

One only has to watch or read the national news to see crisis communications being practiced. In those situations you need to know something about crisis communications, the topic of this podcast. In those situations you need to know something about crisis communications, the topic of this podcast.

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Why It Pays To Educate Employees On Crisis Management

Bernstein Crisis Management

Why It Pays To Educate Employees On Crisis Management. So I’m going to explain why it pays to have every employee receive some level of crisis management education. Crisis-related communications flow properly. When facing serious crises or reputation threats, it’s critical to have communications be consistent.

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Achieving True Communications Interoperability Across Networks, Devices, Platforms and Applications

Disaster Zone Podcast

The need to achieve communications interoperability has haunted public agencies for years. The terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001 highlighted the need to improve the ability for public agencies from different jurisdictions to communicate with one another. to come together to jointly work on the issue of communications interoperability.

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Conversation with a Documentary Film Maker about Volcanic Risks_mixdown

Disaster Zone Podcast

On the way he has translated science into videos that inform and educate generations of people. His unforgettable experience on the mountain fueled a life-long desire to communicate his own story and those of other eyewitnesses in an independent dramatic documentary, “THE FIRE BELOW US: Remembering Mount St. A close encounter with Mt.

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OUR CHALLENGE

Emergency Planning

disrespect for objectivity anti-intellectualism the coarsening of debate demise of higher education and, indeed, education in general resort to artificial [un]-intelligence as a substitute for skill development, thinking and reasoning so-called 'culture wars' and the blind acceptance of ideologies that are fundamentally harmful.

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Prolonged, wide-area electrical power failure

Emergency Planning

lifts [elevators] blocked: people possibly trapped in them trains stranded: people possibly stranded in them traffic control inoperable: possibility of accidents and queues at road junctions critical facilities (hospitals, police stations, etc.)