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Academic Publishing and Malpractice

Emergency Planning

He discussed arbitrary decision-making, failure to communicate the reasons for decisions, negligence, manuscripts with excessive time in review, unprofessional reviews and use of inappropriate reviewers. It usually represents a failure to consider what the journal would be willing to publish. I agree with all of his observations.

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How Shall We Communicate Risk in an Era of ‘Manufactured Reality’?

Emergency Planning

I end this set of reflections with two models that are intended to show how reality is created by the power of perceptions and their transformation into shared opinions through socialisation using the powerful new tools that are available in modern mass communication, particularly social media. Further reading Chomsky, N. Durkheim, E.

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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja 

MHA Consulting

Then as now, the government published resources to help organizations protect themselves. Contains links to toolkits for preparing for different hazards as well as pages on Emergency Response Plans, Crisis Communications Plans, Incident Management, IT/DR, and much more. Prepare My Business for an Emergency.

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THE LOCKDOWN PROCESS — PREPARING YOUR BUSINESS FOR SUCCESS

CCEM Strategies

In the second article of this three-post blog series, we will explore Lockdown procedures to help you support your personnel and ensure the safest Lockdown approach is built into your emergency planning process. Securable locations should be pre-stocked with drinking water and have communication tools in place (i.e.

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Mon apprentissage - Il mio tirocinio - My apprenticeship - Meine Lehre

Emergency Planning

Writing is our craft and our main means of communicating our ideas. Good writing can be judged by whether or not it is good communication. As they have never followed my advice, perhaps I am not communicating well enough. I have used it to shoot down both published and aspiring authors. Language is communication.

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The SEPA Cyber Attack a Case Study

Plan B Consulting

Over the last four weeks, I have been publishing a running commentary on their response here. It has t aken four to five weeks for SEPA to get their communications and messages sorted out. The communication throughout the whole incident has been poor, which has left the organisation looking incompetent, unprepared and uncoordinated.

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The SEPA Cyber Attack a Case Study

Plan B Consulting

Over the last four weeks, I have been publishing a running commentary on their response here. It has t aken four to five weeks for SEPA to get their communications and messages sorted out. The communication throughout the whole incident has been poor, which has left the organisation looking incompetent, unprepared and uncoordinated.