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Disaster Zone Podcast: Climate Impacts and Solutions for Local Government

Disaster Zone

Everyone has a role and it starts with climate adaptation by cities and counties.

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Review of Joplin, MO Recovery

Recovery Diva

Devastated by a tornado 10 years ago, Joplin, Mo., offers lessons in what comes next. Note: A full chapter is devoted to the details of the Joplin recovery in our recent book, U.S. Emergency Management in the 21st Century, by Rubin and Cutter.

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What to do to your home before and after winter weather strikes

Disaster Safety

Before a winter weather event. 1. Monitor the weather. Find a reliable source for severe weather information. Follow the National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Prediction Center ( WPC ) on Facebook or Twitter and your local NWS office. Tune in to local news often when winter weather is forecast. Enable wireless emergency alerts on your cell phone.?.

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Climate Impacts and Solutions for Local Government

Disaster Zone Podcast

We are seeing climate impacts across the world and here in the United States. In this podcast we look more deeply at those impacts and how people and governments are reacting. Anna Marandi , Program Manager of Climate Resilience and Sustainability with the National League of Cities is the guest. The changing climate is impacting where people choose to live and work.

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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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Omicron Is Not the Last Variant

Disaster Zone

See my earlier blog post on the delta variant.

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Nine budget friendly ways to prepare your commercial building BEFORE the winter season

Disaster Safety

Winter weather can cause business disruption, structural damage to buildings from excessive snow loads, water damage from bursting frozen pipes, and can generate dangerous ice dams on the roof. Depending on your business’ specific location, it could have greater risk of exposure to these elements. Let’s review some things you can do to prepare ahead of the winter season.

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How Formula 1 Car Sensors Create Data at Every Turn

Pure Storage

Modern F1 race cars are networked, connected, intelligent machines that can include hundreds of sensors and nearly a mile of wiring. These sensors deliver billions of data points for analysis that help teams outperform the competition—like when data from the Mercedes-AMG Petronas’ F1 car helped Lewis Hamilton secure his dramatic win at Silverstone this year.

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Seismic Safety for Schools Doesn’t Exist in Washington State

Disaster Zone

It has been studied to death, but with no real interest and no action.

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RAND Commentary Highlights of 2021

The Rand Blog

The paradox of 2021 was that even as COVID-19 dragged on, bringing a certain limiting sameness to many daily lives, the events of the year felt unprecedented. Vaccine rollouts, an attack on the U.S. Capitol, massive ransomware attacks, the withdrawal from Afghanistan, record numbers of job openings and people quitting, and more. RAND researchers weighed in on all these topics and more.

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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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Large improvement projects to get your home ready for winter weather

Disaster Safety

Winter weather causes slippery conditions, structural damage to buildings from excessive snow loads, water damage from frozen pipes, and can create dangerous ice dams on the roof. Here are five larger improvement projects to prepare your home for the winter season. 1. Upgrade your windows and/or doors. Create a plan for your home before and after a winter storm.

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Unitrends Blog: The Best of 2021

Unitrends

2021 was a busy year for our Backup & Recovery blog channel. The traffic and readership for our blogs increased tremendously compared to previous years. It is gratifying to see our content resonating so well with our audience. As the year comes to an end, we’ve created a list that recaps the ten most popular […]. The post Unitrends Blog: The Best of 2021 appeared first on Unitrends.

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Seattle Addressing the Unreinforced Masonry Building Threat

Disaster Zone

You can call me a doubting Thomas.

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Recovery Will Be Hard in KY

Recovery Diva

From the WashPost: I n rural Kentucky, small towns were already on the margins. Then came the tornadoes.

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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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4 Top Business Disruptions to Plan for in 2022

BryghtPath

The last half of 2021 has witnessed a resurgence in economic activities in the US due to several monetary and fiscal stimulus and increased consumer spending. However, the supply chain challenges, rising price pressure, and lingering virus concerns have increased inflation. Several pundits predict that 2022 may present several disruptions which may interfere with your … The post 4 Top Business Disruptions to Plan for in 2022 appeared first on Bryghtpath.

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Try these new tools to protect your IT this holiday

Synology

Work pressure and irregular staffing make holiday seasons the perfect occasion for threat actors. Besides direct attacks on your infrastructure, phishing and other scams targeting employees also take a flight in the weeks before Christmas. Routine maintenance becomes difficult with fewer hands to do the job. Add working from home to the mix, and it […].

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) Down Again — This Time in the West

Disaster Zone

This is becoming a habit.

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Floating Homes

Recovery Diva

From the WashPost: In Amsterdam, floating homes show the world how to live alongside nature.

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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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Data and Cyber Resilience is Critical to Your Company’s Cybersecurity Strategy

Solutions Review

This is part of Solutions Review’s Premium Content Series, a collection of contributed columns written by industry experts in maturing software categories. In this submission, EasyMorph Founder Dmitry Gudkov offers commentary on BI stagnation and the current state of the market for data analytics tools. Data and cyber resilient storage is a critical component for any enterprise’s corporate cybersecurity strategy.

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Two Outages in Two Weeks? Get DR for AWS

Zerto

Give your organization the gift of Zerto In-Cloud DR before the next outage . At the end of November, I blogged about the need for disaster recovery in the cloud and also attended AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was a great conference, and I was able to see some great AWS solutions up close and personal both from the AWS team and other vendors.

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What Happens in the Artic Matters After All

Disaster Zone

There is a weather connection to wildfires.

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GAO on Barriers to Recovery

Recovery Diva

From the HSDL: GAO Investigates Disaster Recovery Barriers. This article focuses on federal actions.

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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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The Balancing Act of Efficiency and Resilience: How to Connect with Executives and Key Stakeholders

Castellan

This is part 1 of a two-part series exploring the resilience movement, how it can positively impact modern business, and the roles executives and key stakeholders play in ensuring business resilience while managing efficiencies, and adapting to changing environments with an expanding threat landscape. While it’s hard to find a lot of bright spots from the pandemic, when it comes to business continuity, there actually may be one: a renewed focus on continuity, risk and efficiency management, and

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Business Resilience in 2022: The Path Forward

Alert Media

The post Business Resilience in 2022: The Path Forward appeared first on AlertMedia.

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Climate Change and the BC Flood

Disaster Zone

Predictable? Yes. Preventable? Maybe. The future is unsure.

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Realistic Recovery Expectations

Recovery Diva

Surviving the Storm Is Just the Beginning. This is the case with most American disasters. Recovery is an uphill battle that takes years and sometimes decades.

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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