Tue.Nov 16, 2021

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Disaster Zone Podcast: Aerial Attack on Wildfires

Disaster Zone

Attacking wildfires from the air.

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FEMA and Hazard Mitigation

Recovery Diva

An in-depth article by the WashPost. The ring in the ashes.Why FEMA’s billion-dollar program to prevent disasters failed to save Mount Olive Road. Be sure to see the segment titled : What’s the Wait.

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Does Vertical Integration Improve or Imperil U.S. Health Care?

The Rand Blog

Health care consolidation is endemic across the United States. With consolidation has come public attention and regulatory scrutiny. Unfortunately, evidence is accumulating that health care consolidation is harming competition in the U.S. health care market, while neither reducing costs nor improving care.

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Record River Flooding in Western Washington

Disaster Zone

It is that time of year, plus.

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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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Decision Algorithms in Sport

Advancing Analytics

Written by Luke Menzies and Gavita Regunath Introduction Data science is the banner, under which many techniques and algorithms are applied to real-world business problems and services. All too often within the business world, discussion of such techniques is often scoped to descriptive methods. These descriptive methods are considered to be comprised of regression, clustering and classification.

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Fire Protection Research Foundation receives grants to study PPE cleaning, responder training, WUI evacuation, and household alarms challenges

National Fire Protection Association

The Fire Protection Research Foundation (FPRF), the research affiliate of NFPA, released details on their newest direct grant efforts and advisory projects – thanks to funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency Assistance to Firefighters Grants (FEMA AFG), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and National Science Foundation (NSF).

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How to secure access to SaaS and web apps without the overhead

Citrix

Citrix customers traditionally had to publish a virtual browser on Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops or rely on a local browser with minimal authentication security to enable secure access to internal web and SaaS apps. While secure, the problem is … The post How to secure access to SaaS and web apps without the overhead first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Achieving Operational Resilience for Cellular Carriers

everbridge

The world is changing, and with great change comes an evolving threat landscape. Increases in physical and digital disruption, such as civil unrest, cyberattacks, severe weather events, and unplanned outages, have left many industries scrambling to secure a robust operational resilience strategy, including the cellular industry. Today’s evolving threat landscape poses a unique threat to cellular carriers, whose business is growing at a breakneck pace.

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Empowering call center agents with Podio and CallHippo

Citrix

This is a guest blog post by Jahnavi Vekaria from the content team at CallHippo. Whether handling customer queries or just providing an ear to listen, call center agents often go the extra mile to ensure that the client/customer … The post Empowering call center agents with Podio and CallHippo first appeared on Citrix Blogs. Related Stories Det nya arbetslivets krav för att attrahera och behålla framtidens talanger Stay ahead of the curve in the new era of employee experience Why

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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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#AcronisCyberFitSummit Sponsor Spotlight: Open-Xchange

Acronis

Open-Xchange products create vendor independence and generate trust in by providing full transparency and control over system governance through their OS business model. Ahead of the Summit, we connected with John Broomfield, Vice President of Marketing for Open-Xchange, to weigh in on the company’s latest advances and what they’re most looking forward to at the Acronis #CyberFit Summit in Schaffhausen!

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How to secure access to SaaS and web apps without the overhead

Citrix

Citrix customers traditionally had to publish a virtual browser on Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops or rely on a local browser with minimal authentication security to enable secure access to internal web and SaaS apps. While secure, the problem is … The post How to secure access to SaaS and web apps without the overhead first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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#AcronisCyberFitSummit Sponsor Spotlight: Accxia

Acronis

Acronis is excited to have Accxia as a sponsor of the Acronis #CyberFit Summit in Schaffhausen this year. Ahead of the event tomorrow, we connected with Brian Furness, Senior Sales and Marketing Manager, Accxia, to learn about the company’s latest advances and what they’re most looking forward to at the Acronis #CyberFit Summit in Schaffhausen!

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Empowering call center agents with Podio and CallHippo

Citrix

This is a guest blog post by Jahnavi Vekaria from the content team at CallHippo. Whether handling customer queries or just providing an ear to listen, call center agents often go the extra mile to ensure that the client/customer … The post Empowering call center agents with Podio and CallHippo 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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Knowing Your Limitations is as Powerful as Knowing Your Strengths_ Becoming a Better Crisis Leader

Business Continuity Today

When we are interviewing people we ask them what their strengths are. We ask them what skills they excel at. We never ask them about what they are bad at. In fact, the collective we, ask people to hide their weaknesses and not accept that we all have limitations. Today, let’s explore why having an understanding of your limitations are, is as powerful as knowing your strengths.

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Decision Algorithms in Sport

Advancing Analytics

Written by Luke Menzies and Gavita Regunath Introduction Data science is the banner, under which many techniques and algorithms are applied to real-world business problems and services. All too often within the business world, discussion of such techniques is often scoped to descriptive methods. These descriptive methods are considered to be comprised of regression, clustering and classification.

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Beware the Data Ditch!

Calligo

Market research of global data maturity reveals the negative commercial impact of ill-planned investments in data projects.

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Knowing Your Limitations is as Powerful as Knowing Your Strengths_ Becoming a Better Crisis Leader

Business Continuity Today

When we are interviewing people we ask them what their strengths are. We ask them what skills they excel at. We never ask them about what they are bad at. In fact, the collective we, ask people to hide their weaknesses and not accept that we all have limitations. Today, let’s explore why having an understanding of your limitations are, is as powerful as knowing your strengths.

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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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Book Review: Disaster and Emergency Management Methods

Recovery Diva

Disaster and Emergency Management Methods; Social Science Approaches in Application by Jason Rivera. Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York and London. ISBN-hardcover: 978 0 367 42398 8 ISBN-electronic: 978 0 367 82394 8; Pages: 381; on-line price $52.95 for paperback., $172.55 for hardback, $42.36 for etext USD. Key words: environmental governance, sustainability, resilience, climate risk, natural hazard, disaster risk reduction, building regulation.

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Veritas Study Reveals Office Workers Often Neglect to Report Data Loss

Solutions Review

Veritas Technologies recently announced the findings of new research highlighting the damage that workplace cultures can have on the success of cloud adoption. The research from Veritas revealed that organizations are losing critical data, including customer orders and financial data, because employees are afraid of or embarrassed to report data loss and ransomware issues when using cloud applications like Microsoft Office 365.

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Fall 2021 Launch: Automate Incident Response to Accelerate Critical Work by PagerDuty

PagerDuty

Modern businesses are digital businesses—so managing your business means mastering your critical services and operations for your employees and customers. Today, you need to be able to understand every aspect of your company—as it unfolds—because in this world, seconds matter to your productivity, your revenue, and most importantly, your customers. The PagerDuty Operations Cloud — a cloud-based platform that manages all aspects of urgent and mission critical work for a modern, digital business —

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