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Crisis Communications Firm’s Tips For Navigating Tough Conversations

Bernstein Crisis Management

Crisis Communications Firm’s Tips For Navigating Tough Conversations The occasional tough conversation is a part of doing business. Though these aren’t the task you’ll handle most frequently, it’s important to recognize that the way you handle those discussions can often determine whether you have an operational issue to address or face a full-blown crisis that threatens your reputation, your ability to operate, and your bottom line.

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This I Believe

DisasterDoc

(Preface from Keim M. Emergency Health APHA Press, Washington, DC 2023) THIS I BELIEVE I believe in public health. Because of people like John Snow, I believe that disease does. The post This I Believe appeared first on DisasterDoc.

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Leading in a Crisis

Disaster Zone Podcast

Not everyone can lead during a crisis. Some think they can, others fear that they will not be up to the task. Sometimes the crisis finds you, whether you are ready or not. In this podcast, Pete Gaynor, the immediate past Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator shares his ideas on Leadership Essentials for Unthinkable Events. See www.femapete.com for more information.

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Improving PagerDuty’s Operational Resilience to Achieve our Long Term Vision and Goals by Jennifer Tejada

PagerDuty

CEO Jennifer Tejada sent the following email to PagerDuty employees earlier today. Hi Dutonians, Part of our mission at PagerDuty is to help businesses “anticipate the unexpected in an unpredictable world.” Over the last year, the macro environment shifted rapidly, with growth contracting in Q1 and Q2 yet expanding in Q3. Inflation and geopolitical concerns caused the US Federal Reserve to hike interest rates, while the jobs market overall remained strong and the unemployment rate remained low.

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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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Defund Emergency Management

Disaster Zone

Whose responsibility is it to fund state and local emergency management?

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Understanding Different Types and Uses of Video Surveillance Data

Security Industry Association

Jan. 22-28 is Data Privacy Week , and the Security Industry Association (SIA) Data Privacy Advisory Board is marking the occasion with helpful tips and guidance on key data privacy topics. Here, learn about different types and uses of video surveillance data. As artificial intelligence (AI) applications have matured, it has become commonplace to see video cameras shipped with basic AI analytics embedded as a standard feature.

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Letter to Employees by PagerDuty

PagerDuty

UPDATE: Friday, January 27, 2023 7:00PM PT CEO Jennifer Tejada and PagerDuty leadership hosted global team meetings where they discussed the layoff announcement made earlier this week. She sent the below email to our employees as a follow up to those conversations. Team, This has been a difficult week for our company. For those of you who were not able to attend our town hall discussion today, I wanted to share what we discussed.

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What Will Blockchain Mean for Data Storage?

Pure Storage

This is part two in a three-part series covering blockchain technologies. Read part one to learn how blockchain is modernizing enterprise apps. Emerging technologies almost always raise an important question for companies on the brink of breakthroughs: What will this innovation mean for our existing IT infrastructure? Do we have the foundation to support it?

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What the Statistics Say About COVID Being Over

Disaster Zone

The fat lady has not sung.

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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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Avoiding a Long War in Ukraine, Gun Violence, Migrant Surges: RAND Weekly Recap

The Rand Blog

This weekly recap focuses on how the United States can help avoid a long war in Ukraine, responding to the gun violence crisis, limits on teachers’ instruction, and more.

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Acronis Cyber Foundation Program: Celebrating five years of achievement!

Acronis

The Acronis Cyber Foundation Program was founded in 2018 with the goal of making education available to all, and over the past five years, we have been able to achieve remarkable results by building 23 schools (with 18 completed by 2022 and five in progress during 2023) in 22 different countries around the world, benefitting more than 5,500 children.

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Better Science, Volume 2: Maps, Metadata, and the Pyramid

Pure Storage

In our first installment of Better Science , we talked about how Pure Storage® designed a better approach to flash storage systems and the benefits it brings to customers, as well as the environment. Today, we have a strategy for storing quadrillions of bits: petabytes of data, all stored efficiently on the densest flash available, and able to scale even larger in the future.

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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja 

MHA Consulting

We are living in a golden age in terms of the easy availability of high-quality information on how organizations can make themselves more resilient. In today’s post we’ll look at the top 10 free or almost free resources business continuity management professionals can utilize to help them raise their BCM skills and effectiveness to ninja level. Related on MHA Consulting: Become a Master of Disaster: Educate Yourself With These Key BC Resources A Golden Age for Quality BC Information We talk a l

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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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Aligning IT During a Merger or Acquisition

NexusTek

READ TIME: 4 MIN January 25, 2023 Aligning IT During a Merger or Acquisition Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are as promising and exciting as they are intimidating. For many small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), merging with another organization offers the opportunity to expand beyond their immediate geographic markets and possibly diversify the products and services they offer to command a larger market share.

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An Expert Disaster Recovery Plan Checklist Template for 2023

Solutions Review

Solutions Review’s Expert Insights Series is a collection of contributed articles written by industry experts in enterprise software categories. In this feature, Barracuda ‘s SVP of Data Protection offers a disaster recovery plan checklist as an essential resource to consider this year. The impact of data loss or corruption from hardware failure, human error, hacking or malware can devastate the day-to-day operations of businesses.

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Register Today for Pure//Accelerate 2023 in Las Vegas

Pure Storage

Where can you see the latest data storage innovations, hear from visionary thought leaders, and discover the secret to digital transformation with data? Don’t gamble away your shot to learn more… Pure//Accelerate 2023 Hits the Strip Last year, we took Los Angeles by storm at Pure//Accelerate® techfest22. This year, June 14-16, Pure//Accelerate is lighting up the Vegas Strip at Resorts World Las Vegas.

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Responding to the Firearm Violence Crisis: Are Some Newly Enacted Laws Making Things Worse?

The Rand Blog

Persuasive scientific evidence is accumulating for several commonly implemented laws. Where the science is strong, lawmakers would be wise to consider it when making decisions about how to protect public safety while preserving civil liberties, including the right to bear arms.

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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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Building your Ransomware Playbook

BryghtPath

Reading about the latest ransomware hack feels a lot like watching a bicyclist hurdle head-first over handlebars into a pile of gravel. “Oof, that had to hurt.” And, “boy, am I glad that wasn’t me.” But that’s where the similarity between the two stops. Because although you can take all the right steps to keep … The post Building your Ransomware Playbook appeared first on Bryghtpath.

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Electrical Room Basics, Part 3

National Fire Protection Association

This is the last in a three-part series on electrical rooms. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here. Working space about electrical equipment is covered in Article 110 of the NEC. Up to this point, we have discussed electrical rooms and how the National Electrical Code® (NEC®)—specifically, 110.26—helps ensure there is enough space, especially working space, in those rooms or areas.

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It’s Data Privacy Week, How Are You Helping Your Clients Stay Secure?

Prism International

The 22-28 of January is Data Privacy week. In honor of this week, i-SIGMA has put together this article that you can share with clients to help them secure data in everyday life. The business world may be shifting its focus to the digital realm, but vigilant cybersecurity is only one aspect of data protection. In fact, Varonis reports that while hacking and malware attacks account for many data breaches, other breaches include much simpler methods including loss or theft of physical hard drives

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Software Supply Chain Risk Is Growing, but Mitigation Solutions Exist

The Rand Blog

Software supply chain security has emerged as a leading risk because of the massively fragmented and decentralized nature of modern software development. While we still have much to learn as a community about this risk, there are concrete steps we can take to better understand and mitigate it.

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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

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Mass Attacks in Public Spaces, 2016-2020

Disaster Zone

Compiled by the Department of Homeland Security

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Overcoming observed challenges when adopting a zero trust architecture

Citrix

Zero trust has become a crucial component in the cybersecurity strategy of organizations everywhere. More and more enterprises are finding themselves turning toward zero trust architecture to keep their data, infrastructure, and other assets safe. As a result, this concept … The post Overcoming observed challenges when adopting a zero trust architecture first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Purity//FA 6.4 Release Highlights

Pure Storage

Below, find regular updates on the latest Purity for FlashArray™ releases. Discover content related to each release, including blog posts, videos, and demos. Be sure to bookmark this page and check back for more newness! Current Active Release: Purity//FA 6.4.1 Released on December 20, 2022, Purity//FA 6.4.1 introduces local authentication for FlashArray File Services and adds support for multiple VASA storage containers.

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Unlocking Training Technology for Multi-Domain Operations

The Rand Blog

Multi-domain operations (MDO) can present many challenges for training. Involvement of various disparate organizations and services can exacerbate these challenges and can require balancing centralized coordination with decentralized training objectives. If MDO is to provide new benefits, the training community may need to solve old problems. It may need to communicate more effectively.

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Are You a “geoSpatial Environment for Access, Retrieval & Content Hosting (gSEARCH)” Nerd?

Disaster Zone

Good ideas and concepts can come from anywhere.

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