Tue.Dec 21, 2021

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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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Omicron Is Not the Last Variant

Disaster Zone

See my earlier blog post on the delta variant.

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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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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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What Happens in the Artic Matters After All

Disaster Zone

There is a weather connection to wildfires.

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Nine budget friendly ways to prepare your home BEFORE the winter season

Disaster Safety

? Back. 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 nine ways you can prepare your home for the winter season. . 1. Assess your home’s exposure and know what to do . Create a plan for your home before and after a winter storm. .

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3 priorities to consider when choosing hybrid-work technologies

Citrix

This is a guest blog post by Stacey Loew, Sr. Director, Technical Marketing, ATSG. Hybrid work is being heralded as the next great disruption in the workplace, and although there was already a trend towards working from home, the … The post 3 priorities to consider when choosing hybrid-work technologies first appeared on Citrix Blogs. Related Stories Boost your user experience with Citrix Workspace app for Chrome OS How to drive innovation and productivity for your distributed workforce Wh

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Improving Incident Outcomes With Modern Emergency Communication Tools

Alert Media

The post Improving Incident Outcomes With Modern Emergency Communication Tools appeared first on AlertMedia.

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Fieldwork by Citrix: Highlights from 2021

Citrix

The world of work and the technologies that support it are changing faster than ever. As organizations everywhere transition to hybrid-work models, it’s critical that leaders are prepared to manage and capitalize on these shifts and can deliver a great … The post Fieldwork by Citrix: Highlights from 2021 first appeared on Citrix Blogs. Related Stories Hybrid is here to stay: Redefining work in 2022 The future of work is choice 3 priorities to consider when choosing hybrid-work technologies

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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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The Data Protection Opportunity with Kubernetes

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. Containers and Kubernetes were built to harness the power of elastic cloud compute.

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Digital Poverty in Education: How IT leaders are striving for equality for all

Citrix

The issue of digital inequality within higher education was brought into sharp focus by the pandemic. With university campuses across the country closed and learning shifting to an online environment, the digital divide that emerged was far greater than anyone … The post Digital Poverty in Education: How IT leaders are striving for equality for all first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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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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Increased capacity with improved performance for Citrix in Google Cloud

Citrix

Since the increase in cloud adoption to support and scale hybrid work, organizations have seen a measurable upturn in productivity and employee satisfaction. With more organizations choosing to adopt Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service for deploying workloads to Google … The post Increased capacity with improved performance for Citrix in Google Cloud first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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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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How To Build Your 2022 Emergency Management Plan

Alert Media

The post How To Build Your 2022 Emergency Management Plan appeared first on AlertMedia.

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Digital Poverty in Education: How IT leaders are striving for equality for all

Citrix

The issue of digital inequality within higher education was brought into sharp focus by the pandemic. With university campuses across the country closed and learning shifting to an online environment, the digital divide that emerged was far greater than anyone … The post Digital Poverty in Education: How IT leaders are striving for equality for all first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Reflecting & Looking Ahead

Plan B Consulting

This year has certainly felt far too like 2020 for my liking! The challenges of COVID, travel disruption, and hybrid working have become ‘normal’ for us all, but as is my tradition at this time of year, I would like to focus on the opportunities that 2021 has brought us, as we spend too much time focusing on the worst case scenarios in our daily work!

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Increased capacity with improved performance for Citrix in Google Cloud

Citrix

Since the increase in cloud adoption to support and scale hybrid work, organizations have seen a measurable upturn in productivity and employee satisfaction. With more organizations choosing to adopt Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service for deploying workloads to Google … The post Increased capacity with improved performance for Citrix in Google Cloud first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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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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Reflecting & Looking Ahead

Plan B Consulting

This year has certainly felt far too like 2020 for my liking! The challenges of COVID, travel disruption, and hybrid working have become ‘normal’ for us all, but as is my tradition at this time of year, I would like to focus on the opportunities that 2021 has brought us, as we spend too much time focusing on the worst case scenarios in our daily work!

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Fieldwork by Citrix: Highlights from 2021

Citrix

The world of work and the technologies that support it are changing faster than ever. As organizations everywhere transition to hybrid-work models, it’s critical that leaders are prepared to manage and capitalize on these shifts and can deliver a great … The post Fieldwork by Citrix: Highlights from 2021 first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Dynamic Risks: Working Definitions and Implications for Risk Management Teams

On Solve

A Recent Trend. As our OnSolve leadership team reflects on 2020 and 2021, we note a trend in our conversations with Business Continuity (BC), Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Physical Security (PS), Travel Risk Management (TRM) and Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) leaders. At first, we did not connect the dots on a clear way to describe this trend.

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3 priorities to consider when choosing hybrid-work technologies

Citrix

This is a guest blog post by Stacey Loew, Sr. Director, Technical Marketing, ATSG. Hybrid work is being heralded as the next great disruption in the workplace, and although there was already a trend towards working from home, the … The post 3 priorities to consider when choosing hybrid-work technologies first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Winter Weather Ready – Home

Disaster Safety

Seasonal Prep: Nine budget friendly ways to prepare your home BEFORE the winter season. Read More. Home Improvement Projects: Large improvement projects to get your home ready for winter weather. Read More. Severe Winter Weather: What to do for your home before and after winter weather strikes. Read More. The post Winter Weather Ready – Home appeared first on DISASTERSAFETY.ORG.

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Employee Experience 2022: Prepare to reboot

Citrix

Work has changed more in the last year than at any time in history. And more change is in store. Fueled by the pandemic, employees have begun to rethink what work means and what they expect from it. And to … The post Employee Experience 2022: Prepare to reboot first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Why We Conduct Disaster Drills and the Culture of Preparedness

Business Continuity Today

It has been said that doing fire drills and other disaster exercises is a time suck, that they interrupt important work and productivity. Time and time again, this has been proven to be wrong. The drills save lives. We can point to Active Shooter drills that saved students a few weeks ago. The example on 9/11, how thousands of lives were saved by Rick Rescorla, who did not take no for an answer.

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Sylob Brings Scalable Cloud ERP to Europe’s Small and Medium Businesses

Pure Storage

Europe’s small and medium businesses need a special kind of ERP system – one that can grow and scale with their needs. This is especially true in the industrial sector, which is our primary focus at Sylob. Rising demand combined with a strained supply chain have made agile processes a necessity, and reliable ERP is the foundation of a modern approach.

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In Memoriam: Joseph Freeman, J.P. Freeman & Company

Security Industry Association

Security Industry Association (SIA) members and the security industry have mourned the recent loss of Joseph Freeman, Ph.D., a longtime strategist, researcher and business leader in the security industry, who was especially influential in the residential security and home automation space. A veteran of the Korean War, Freeman had a lifelong dedication for protecting citizens of our nation and improving their lives.

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Computer Network Basics

Advancing Analytics

Introduction. My motivation for writing this blog post was largely to share my own journey in understanding networking. I did not come from an on-prem network background, and my first exposure to networking was using virtual networks in the cloud. Although the cloud does make it easy to be able to use a lot of these resources without fully understanding what's going on under the hood, I started to feel like I wanted to know more about how networks actually worked.

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Reflecting & Looking Ahead

Plan B Consulting

This year has certainly felt far too like 2020 for my liking! The challenges of COVID, travel disruption, and hybrid working have become ‘normal’ for us all, but as is my tradition at this time of year, I would like to focus on the opportunities that 2021 has brought us, as we spend too much time focusing on the worst case scenarios in our daily work!

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DevOps for Databricks: Databricks Rest API & Python

Advancing Analytics

In this blog series I explore a variety of options available for DevOps for Databricks. This blog will focus on working with the Databricks REST API & Python. Why you ask? Well, a large percentage of Databricks/Spark users are Python coders. In fact, in 2021 it was reported that 45% of Databricks users use Python as their language of choice. This is a stark contrast to 2013, in which 92 % of users were Scala coders: Spark usage among Databricks Customers in 2013 vs 2021.

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Why We Conduct Disaster Drills and the Culture of Preparedness

Business Continuity Today

It has been said that doing fire drills and other disaster exercises is a time suck, that they interrupt important work and productivity. Time and time again, this has been proven to be wrong. The drills save lives. We can point to Active Shooter drills that saved students a few weeks ago. The example on 9/11, how thousands of lives were saved by Rick Rescorla, who did not take no for an answer.