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The Intersection of Traditional PR and Crisis Management

Bernstein Crisis Management

The Intersection of Traditional PR and Crisis Management In an era where the digital landscape dominates the field of communication, it’s important to remember that many of the timeless principles of traditional public relations continue to underpin the strategies shaping crisis management today. The intertwined relationship between traditional PR and crisis management is a valuable example of how foundational communication strategies can be adapted to navigate today’s complex busine

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Forecasting the Weather as a Business

Disaster Zone Podcast

In this podcast we have a wide-ranging discussion about the importance of weather to business and government operations around the world. Getting actionable weather forecasts has never been more important. We learn how these forecasts can be both pinpoint and actionable by incorporating what is about to happen with your operational procedures to both protect people and property.

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Optimize GenAI Applications with Retrieval-augmented Generation from Pure Storage and NVIDIA

Pure Storage

Optimize GenAI Applications with Retrieval-augmented Generation from Pure Storage and NVIDIA by Pure Storage Blog Generative AI (GenAI) is one of the fastest-adopted technologies in history. But for boardrooms and business leaders to give it serious consideration, it has to prove its worth for enterprise use cases. How will it increase business, innovation, and operational velocity?

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The U.S.–China Rivalry in a New Medieval Age

The Rand Blog

Trends like weakening governments and fragmenting societies suggest that the era of industrial superpowers is over and we've entered a new medieval age. The U.S.-China rivalry may have more in common with the fitful conflicts of the 14th century than with the cataclysmic world wars of the 20th.

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The Complete Guide to Mastering Business Continuity

The Complete Guide to Mastering Business Continuity is a step-by-step resource for developing an effective Business Continuity Management (BCM) program and navigating challenges. Whether building from scratch or enhancing a plan, this guide offers practical tools, expert advice, and strategies to ensure resilience. What You’ll Learn: Key elements of BCM and resiliency Steps to build and test your Business Continuity Plan (BCP) Conducting risk assessments and BIAs Integrating cybersecurity into p

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Book Review: Resilience Matters;Flourishing in an Era of Extremes

Recovery Diva

Our intrepid reviewer, Mr. John Plodinec (PhD), has reviewed the new edition of this book. This ebook is available free of charge from the website of Island Press. Once again, Claire has asked me to review the latest in the Resilience Matters series – this one subtitled Flourishing in an Era of Extremes. The ebook , again edited by Laurie Mazur, consists of 51 short essays, most of which have appeared as opinion pieces in various periodicals.

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Optimizing Performance and Cost Savings for Elastic on Pure Storage

Pure Storage

Optimizing Performance and Cost Savings for Elastic on Pure Storage by Pure Storage Blog This article originally appeared on InsideBigData.com. There’s no denying that data is growing at an unprecedented rate and access to this data is crucial for enterprises seeking insights for business growth. As data continues to expand, so does the demand for fast query performance and quick insights.

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Help Ukraine Win—or Risk Kicking Off a U.S. Losing Streak

The Rand Blog

Continued assistance to Ukraine is critical if the United States is to retain its position as the world's indispensable nation and the many benefits Americans enjoy as a result. Failing to support Ukraine now might kick off an American losing streak that could take decades to overcome.

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One Current Take on FEMA

Recovery Diva

From Gov.Exec.com: Lawmakers debate the role of an overworked and under-resourced FEMA. Despite some hiring success, FEMA is taking on more tasks while operating at 65% capacity.

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Build More Resilient Operations with PagerDuty Incident Management by Laura Chu

PagerDuty

Mitigating business risk is a key enterprise priority. To avoid unnecessary exposure to the business, technical teams need a proactive approach to managing incidents. While this is a well-known challenge, it’s also much easier said than done. Over the years, many organizations have cobbled together their own bespoke processes for managing different types of incidents.

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Mastering Remote Onboarding: Proven Strategies for Seamless New Hire Integration

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.

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Helping Healthcare Organizations Stay Agile and Protect Data

Pure Storage

Helping Healthcare Organizations Stay Agile and Protect Data by Pure Storage Blog Imagine that your healthcare business pays $22 million in cryptocurrency to cybercriminals to recover data and systems encrypted in a ransomware attack that targeted a subsidiary, causing massive disruption across the industry. Then, you learn the ransomware gang has likely cut and run with your money, betraying its own business associates.

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Math Teachers’ Efforts Can Really Add Up

The Rand Blog

New RAND research reveals that teachers wield incredible influence in leveling the playing field in math class—and in helping students achieve their full potential.

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Disaster Data Science – from the NAS

Recovery Diva

From the National Academy of Sciences: The Action Collaborative on Disaster Research: Symposium on Disaster Data Science Thanks to Dr. Lois Cohen for this citation.

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5 reasons why a social media presence is essential for MSPs

Acronis

For managed service providers (MSPs), leveraging social media platforms is a necessity. Here are five reasons why establishing and maintaining a robust social media presence is essential for MSPs.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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BCP solutions for small business

KingsBridge BCP

Business Continuity Planning (BCP) can be a challenge for small businesses. Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is defined as the process of determining how to continue critical business operations in the event of an incident/disaster, making it extremely important for all businesses, big and small.

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Artificial Intelligence and Biotechnology: Risks and Opportunities

The Rand Blog

Machine learning is helping scientists make sense of the genetic keys that could unlock new crops, new drugs, and vaccines. But policymakers may not be prepared for the impact those two fields could have together. To make the most of the opportunities to come, and to avoid the dangers, that has to change.

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Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of March 22; Updates from Cohesity, Quantum, Veritas & More

Solutions Review

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of March 22, 2024. Keeping tabs on all the most relevant storage and data protection news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week, in this space.

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Protected: Experts Answer 5 Key Questions About AI

Pure Storage

Protected: Experts Answer 5 Key Questions About AI by Pure Storage Blog This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: The post Protected: Experts Answer 5 Key Questions About AI appeared first on Pure Storage Blog.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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How to Navigate the Cybersecurity Minefield of Remote Work

LogisManager

How to Navigate the Cybersecurity Minefield of Remote Work Last Updated: March 19, 2024 While the debate over the productivity of employees working from home continues to rage, another factor that requires special attention in a hybrid or fully remote company is workplace cybersecurity. According to an INTERPOL report , between January and April 2020, there was a significant increase in malicious cyber activities attributed to the pandemic shift to WFH.

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Americans Need to Know How the Government Will Use AI

The Rand Blog

Americans have been concerned about tech-enabled government surveillance for as long as they have known about it. With the recent Department of Homeland Security announcement that it is embracing artificial intelligence, that concern isn't going away anytime soon. How could federal agencies mitigate some of that fear?

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How to leverage IT to deliver tailored shopping experiences

Online Computers

In Minority Report, the Steven Spielberg-directed blockbuster set in 2054, there’s a scene wherein Tom Cruise’s character walks down a hallway lined with hologram ads and facial recognition security cameras. When the cameras detect his presence, the ads start addressing him by name. In another scene, his character enters a Gap store, and the virtual greeter addresses him accordingly.

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Empowering MSPs: How Acronis uses AI in its products and our plans for the future

Acronis

Acronis has a robust AI-enabled security stack, and new AI innovations are on the way. Read on to learn about how Acronis uses AI in our products and solutions, and what is coming in 2024.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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Managing the Perils of Data Exfiltration

Pure Storage

Managing the Perils of Data Exfiltration by Pure Storage Blog Data exfiltration used to be an exploit limited to spy thrillers, but lately, a day doesn’t go by without data exfiltration popping up in the news. In early 2024, during the most serious cyberattack ever on the U.S. healthcare industry , sensitive patient data was exfiltrated from a UnitedHealth subsidiary that processes prescriptions for over 100 million patients.

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Don't Abandon Europe in the Name of 'Asia First'

The Rand Blog

Allies are key to U.S. great power competition. They are the only asset its adversaries do not also share. Instead of a strategic calculation, isolating European partners' vital interests because they are “less important” than Asia can only harm the United States' relationship with its Asian partners as well.

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Healthcare Under Attack: Building Resilience in the Face of an Aggressive Cyber Threat

MHA Consulting

Healthcare organizations are uniquely vulnerable to hackers and are subject to more than their share of cyberattacks. In today’s post, we’ll look at the measures hospitals and other facilities that care for patients can and should take to improve their resilience in the face of the rising threat. Related on MHA Consulting: Be Ransomware Resilient: Know How to Operate Manually A Healthcare System Under Attack Last month, the U.S. medical infrastructure was subject to what the American Hospital As

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Senate Bill 553: Workplace Violence Prevention Plans for California Businesses

Alert Media

California's SB 553 mandates new measures to respond to and prevent workplace violence, emphasizing detailed planning.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha