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FEMA Wants to Expand

Recovery Diva

From Govexec: FEMA Wants to Confront Growing Challenges With More Personnel. The Biden administration is expecting unique challenges this disaster season, and FEMA wants to do more with more.

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The Four-Day School Week: Are the Pros Worth the Cons?

The Rand Blog

The past two decades have seen an explosion in the adoption of the four-day school week. Against this growing trend, however, there is increasing evidence that, by and large, a four-day school week causes student achievement to suffer.

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10 Ways the Video Game Industry Wins with Data

Pure Storage

10 Ways the Video Game Industry Wins with Data by Pure Storage Blog In video games, experience and data never take a back seat. We look at 10 concepts and technologies that gaming studios are battle-testing and fine-tuning. The post 10 Ways the Video Game Industry Wins with Data appeared first on Pure Storage Blog.

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Risk Management Process- Part 1: Overview

Zerto

Risk management describes how a business identifies, analyzes, and responds to threats and risk factors that impact its profitability, viability, and strategic goals. These threats are varied and include emergencies, natural disasters, IT and technological issues, legal and regulatory problems, and financial uncertainties. Risk management attempts to control future threats by planning preemptively and deploying effective risk-control measures.

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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: U.S. Bullet Proofing

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member U.S. Bullet Proofing (USBP) offers a large product line of blast, ballistic, storm impact and forced entry-resistant doors, windows and wall systems. The company is headquartered in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. SIA spoke with Ken Sampson, president of USBP, about the company, the security industry and working with SIA.

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Skip the BIA: Four Cases Where a Formal BIA Is Optional 

MHA Consulting

One of the most common complaints from my consulting clients is that doing a formal business impact analysis, or BIA, is a waste of time. In today’s post, written with BIA doubters in mind, I’ll lay out four cases where conducting a formal BIA is unnecessary. Related on MHA Consulting: All About BIAs: A Guide to MHA Consulting’s Best BIA Resources Purpose and Methodology of the BIA The BIA, as all business continuity professionals know, is the study you conduct to determine which of the organiza

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(Un)Realistic Expectations

KingsBridge BCP

Everyone’s expectations of systems and services continue to rise. Even after a pandemic, endless weather incidents, outages and more, your customers and employees generally will have an “I need it, and I need it NOW” mindset. Whether those expectations are realistic or not might not even matter (particularly when it comes to your customers since many believe the customer is always right).

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Soft-Story Home Earthquake Retrofits

Disaster Zone

These homes are everywhere and need seismic mitigation.

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What to Expect at Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlight with Rubrik on April 11

Solutions Review

Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlight with Rubrick is entitled: Introduction to Rubrik: Zero Trust Data Protection. What is a Solution Spotlight? Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlights are exclusive webinar events for industry professionals across enterprise technology. Since its first virtual event in June 2020, Solutions Review has expanded its multimedia capabilities in response to the overwhelming demand for these kinds of events.

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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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Want to reduce your HDX bandwidth usage by up to 15%? Try this!

Citrix

Usually when I write a blog post, I would introduce some new graphics optimization aimed at delivering the same great user experience but at lower cost. But this time, it’s a little different, and I need your help. The Reducer … The post Want to reduce your HDX bandwidth usage by up to 15%? Try this! first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Let's Talk About TikTok – Use Cases, Risks, and Strategies

Business Resilience Decoded

Episode 143: Let's Talk About TikTok – Use Cases, Risks, and Strategies We’ve all heard about TikTok being a key player in the social media world, but how do we actually leverage that platform as a brand? In this episode, Katie McKiever , an award-winning social media and thought leadership consultant, is here to share her expertise on how TikTok has changed video marketing, how to leverage short-form video and influencer marketing, and the next big thing in social media.

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Want to reduce your HDX bandwidth usage by up to 15%? Try this!

Citrix

Usually when I write a blog post, I would introduce some new graphics optimization aimed at delivering the same great user experience but at lower cost. But this time, it’s a little different, and I need your help. The Reducer … The post Want to reduce your HDX bandwidth usage by up to 15%? Try this! first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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