Mon.Jul 18, 2022

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Department of Labor’s O*NET Recognizes DRI Business Continuity Info for National Employment Database

DRI Drive

The Occupational Information Network (O*NET), developed under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration, is the nation’s primary source of occupational information. Central to the project is the O*NET database, containing hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors on almost 1,000 occupations covering the entire U.S. economy.

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Book Review: Why Vulnerability Still Matters – The Politics of Disaster Risk Creation.

Recovery Diva

Why Vulnerability Still Matters -The Politics of Disaster Risk Creation , Edited by Greg Bankoff and Dorothea Hilhorst. Routledge, 2022. Softcover, 240 pp. List price: $35.96, ISBN 9781032113432. Reviewer : Jono Anzalone, EdD, Nonprofit Leader and Disaster Expert. Why Vulnerability Still Matters -The Politics of Disaster Risk Creation provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of vulnerability, disaster risk, and political systems.

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Are we headed for a Cybermaggedon?

Disaster Zone

Move slowly and fix your stuff—is how we should operate in the cyber-world.

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Recovered, but Not Whole: U.S. Jobs Rebounded, but Not for Everyone

The Rand Blog

The U.S. labor market is on track to hit a milestone this month or next: It will have recovered all of the jobs lost in the pandemic recession. But the pandemic recession and its recovery treated men and women differently, and treated women of color differently from white women.

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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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SIA New Member Profile: Texadia Systems

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Texadia Systems is a full-service design/build AV and technology firm that specializes in the consultative design, installation and support of complex audio, video, lighting, security and low-voltage technology solutions. The company is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and works with clients across the United States.

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Simplify client collaboration for financial services organizations

Citrix

A client’s confidence in their financial services provider begins from their earliest interactions. At the outset of the relationship, the client expects to be provided with clear, straightforward ways to submit content; review and sign documents; and communicate with the … The post Simplify client collaboration for financial services organizations first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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The Uvalde After Action Report

Disaster Zone

The first of many to come.

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The Next Evolution in Customer Service by Justin Shie

PagerDuty

“Customer service software has evolved so much these past ten years, but they all seem to be solving the same problems!” This was a statement made by a Customer Service leader in a recent brainstorming conversation around decreasing overall Response Times and Resolution Times. . The role of the modern Customer Service Agent has been growing in complexity.

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How to Go Green in Your Small Business

Constellation

These going green strategies will help you adopt eco-friendly business practices that customers increasingly expect. This might even save your company money, and have a positive impact on the environment. The post How to Go Green in Your Small Business appeared first on Constellation Residential and Small Business Blog.

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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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What Does Serializability Mean in a DBMS?

Pure Storage

When you have multiple applications sending transactions to a database, you can execute them concurrently or serially. The way a database executes these transactions will have an effect on data, so it will result in possible data corruption if it’s not done properly. The database management system (DMBS) you choose will determine the way queries are managed.

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Customer Centric Resilience in Account Management

Fusion Risk Management

For many continuity , risk, and resilience professionals, the last 2.5 years have been… yikes. It seems like the world keeps finding new and interesting ways to start burning – from pandemic to supply chain issues, cybersecurity threats , wildfires, hurricanes , and a multinational war. We all wish that we could wave a wand to prevent these tragedies from ever happening in the first place.

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Data + AI Summit recap - Data sharing announcements

Advancing Analytics

Amid the plethora of announcements coming out of the DATA + AI Summit a few weeks back, there was a distinct message from Databricks on the importance of data sharing. During the keynote Matei Zaharia referenced a Gartner report quoting that they ".expect organisations who share data and are part of an ecosystem to see 3x better economic performance.".

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Uvalde School Shooting: Leadership Matters

Disaster Zone

Without leadership, sometimes nothing happens.

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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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An Electrical Inspector’s Role in Reducing Electric Shock Drowning

National Fire Protection Association

With dozens of papers and videos created around electric shock drowning (ESD) you would think that living and conducting electrical inspections in Michigan, a state with 3,288 miles of freshwater shoreline and numerous marinas, I would have known about ESD. Well, you would be wrong; I had no idea what ESD was until I started working at NFPA. I wondered if I was the only electrical inspector who was unaware, so I asked several inspector and electrician friends, and the answer was overwhelmingly,