2021

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What Kind of Year Has It Been? DRIVE Looks at the Big (and Small) Stories of 2021

DRI Drive

To say 2021 has been eventful is, of course, an understatement. From big news stories like the Texas snowstorm, to smaller curiosities like the Halloween candy hack, we looked back the past year of coverage in Drive to offer a trip down memory lane. January – ‘As the Vaccines Roll Out, What is the Employer’s […]. The post What Kind of Year Has It Been?

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Product Review: Water Purification Tool for Everyone

Disaster Zone

For the person in your life who has everything, but not this item.

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How a children’s book saved my life

DisasterDoc

My story begins in the Midwestern United States during the mid-1960s with My Weekly Reader, a weekly educational magazine designed for children. Kids in schools throughout the United States (over. The post How a children’s book saved my life appeared first on DisasterDoc.

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Federal Disaster Recovery Resources

Recovery Diva

From the Homeland Security Digital Library: Listing of Federal Disaster Recovery Resources.

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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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Crisis Communications Tips for Recorded Talks

Bernstein Crisis Management

Expert advice for hard conversations with clients, the media, and anyone in between. Tough conversations with clients are a part of doing business in any vertical, and how you handle them can make the difference between someone leaving with a great impression of your brand, ready to pass on the good word, or making sure to savage your reputation online and off.

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Risk Management at Eight Knots! Episode 1, Situational Awareness

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

Skippering a sailboat involves lots of inputs - weather, seas, crew, passengers, etc. etc. and requires keeping a constant eye on all of them. Situaitonal Awareness has business applications as well. Enjoy the video!

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A Five-Minute Plea for Better Civil Protection

Emergency Planning

Although we need to change attitudes to disaster from response to preparedness and prevention, this must not be done at the expense of our ability to respond to disasters when they occur. In the light of climate change, technological risks and migration, we will soon need civil protection systems that are an order of magnitude more powerful than those that we have now.

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Russia May Underestimate Ukraine and NATO

The Rand Blog

Moscow has unveiled outlandish security demands which sound aggressive and suggest that it may underestimate both NATO and Ukraine. Kremlin leaders might consider instead seeking a stable European security architecture that protects Russia's interests while also allowing for a vibrant and sovereign Ukraine.

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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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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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A developer’s guide to programatically overcome fear of failure by Mandeep Kaur

PagerDuty

People are more than happy to talk about their successes, but if you ask them about their failures, they can be much more hesitant to share. Failure is a subject that, interestingly enough, is entangled with the emotion of shame. Yet it’s integral to achieving anything novel, and the learnings that come from failure are unparalleled. So, let’s find ways to get more comfortable with failing, and figure out why people fear it.

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Survey: What New Risks Will the Post-Pandemic Environment Bring?

DRI Drive

While COVID-19 laid bare the many interconnected global risks resilience professionals have to navigate, some unanticipated risks – including workplace and regulatory issues – are also emerging. Among the responses from a recent AuditBoard survey of professionals in North America: 90% consider cybersecurity and data protection top risks In part, that’s because the increase in […].

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Paper Ballots Provide Security to Election Systems

Disaster Zone

Some states have no paper ballots.

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7 years after Flint, another water public health crisis is born of neglect

DisasterDoc

We all need water. It is a physiological need for all life on Earth. Lack of proper water sources in a community would easily constitute a public health crisis. Sphere. The post 7 years after Flint, another water public health crisis is born of neglect appeared first on DisasterDoc.

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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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Info Source on Disaster Economics

Recovery Diva

Source of info on Disaster Economics.

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Practicing Restraint of Pen, Tongue and Send Button

Bernstein Crisis Management

A critical crisis prevention best practice. That darn Send button. It’s much too easy to click the Send button on any communications device and just as easy for whatever you send to be (a) misunderstood; (b) shared with others along with the recipient’s personal opinions; and, (c) posted widely online in places you never expected. We all know that but, factually, if more people practiced restraint of pen, tongue and Send button, we’d have less business.

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Refugee camps and Covid-19: A crisis within a crisis  

Crisis Response Journal

September 2021: In the third part of CRJ’s blog series discussing the ongoing Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh, Dr Kazi Sakib outlines the co-ordinated response by humanitarian and government agencies

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Cybersecurity’s New Superpower: Neurodiversity

FS-ISAC

Cyber threat activity is at an all-time high. With the pandemic and rapid digitization of financial services that has accompanied it, cybersecurity professionals have never been in more demand. Yet we are facing an acute talent shortage; the industry effectively has negative unemployment. One way we are helping to solve this problem at Bank of America is to focus a piece of our recruitment and retention efforts on neurodiversity.

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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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9 reasons good employees leave — and how to prevent it

CIO Governance

News of the Great Resignation isn’t overblown. Some 4 million people quit their jobs in July, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. And companies reported a record-breaking high of 10.9 million open positions. The IT profession is feeling the effects of that churn, with 80% of tech managers saying they’ve seen an increase in turnover in 2021, according to staffing firm Robert Half.

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Taiwan Is Safe Until at Least 2027, but with One Big Caveat

The Rand Blog

Although Chinese President Xi Jinping clearly seeks to bring Taiwan to heel, and by force if necessary, he also continues to promote “peaceful reunification” as Beijing's preferred means. Xi likely would have toughened up his language by now if he thought war was a real possibility.

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Houston Concert Tragedy Casts Crowd Management into the Spotlight

National Fire Protection Association

Over the weekend, tragedy unfolded at NRG Park in Houston, Texas when eight young concert goers, between the ages of 14 and 27, were killed when reported crowd surges occurred during the Astroworld festival which attracted an estimated 50,000 attendees. In addition to the loss of young lives, more than 300 attendees sought assistance at an onsite medical tent.

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Business Continuity Planning for the Retail Industry

everbridge

Business Continuity in the Retail Industry. Enduring the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a unique opportunity for businesses in the retail industry to reshape how they operate. With dramatic shifts in consumer behavior and an increased reliance on digital services, retailers had to look for innovative ways to adapt to the current reality. In addition to developing new modes of business, retailers must make every effort to protect their newly minted operations should another major disruption ta

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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 Great 2021 Cream Cheese Shortage: A Perfect Storm of Supply Chain and Cyber Attack Woes

DRI Drive

You may have heard about some shops having trouble keeping cream cheese in stock – but do you know the role an October cyberattack played? The recent cream cheese shortage isn’t just because during the holidays, as festive baking results in demand reaching its highest peak for the year. In fact, it was greatly exacerbated […]. The post The Great 2021 Cream Cheese Shortage: A Perfect Storm of Supply Chain and Cyber Attack Woes appeared first on DRI Drive.

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The Value of Experience in Emergency Management

Disaster Zone

It doesn’t come from reading a book.

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When Buildings Collapse

DisasterDoc

Building collapse is a common phenomenon associated with multiple disasters, including those caused by so-called “natural hazards” such as earthquakes and tsunamis and landslides, as well as “technological hazards” such. The post When Buildings Collapse appeared first on DisasterDoc.

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Hurricane Study

Recovery Diva

Report from the NYTimes on new MIT study: Study finds Atlantic hurricanes becoming more frequent, destructive. Hurricanes are the most costly disasters for the United States, and a study suggests they’re increasing in number and ferocity.

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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