Wed.Jan 05, 2022

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The evolving threat of vehicle attacks 

Crisis Response Journal

January 2022: CRJ Advisory Panel Member, Lina Kolesnikova analyses the challenges involved in protecting large crowds from vehicle attacks and she explores how the threat is evolving as technology plays a greater role

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Seeing and Hearing: Underrated Skills?

Emergency Planning

The island of Capri seen from the slopes of Mount Vesuvius (photo: D. Alexander) There are two things we don’t teach our students but we should: to see and to listen. They are virtues--and skills--that are at least as important as writing and speaking. Some would argue that they are even more important. Pierre Bonnard, the great post-Impressionist painter, said that “many people look, but few see”.

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The Public Health System is Still Fractured

Recovery Diva

From the WashPost: Much has changed since the start of the pandemic. But the nation’s public health system remains fractured. Another discouraging article from the NY Times: The C.D.C. Is Hoping You’ll Figure Covid Out on Your Own.

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The damaging effects of issue contagion 

Crisis Response Journal

January 2022: Tony Jaques explains how a school tragedy that occurred in Tasmania and a water-ride disaster in Queensland demonstrate ‘issue contagion’ – the rapid spread of a crisis throughout organisations

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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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Celebrating 28 Years of Bernstein Crisis Management

Bernstein Crisis Management

Turns out you can “just” do crisis management… A long time ago, in a strange and wonderful galaxy known as Los Angeles County, intrepid public relations expert Jonathan Bernstein took a leap of faith. Trusting his belief that a firm specializing in crisis communications and management alone could succeed, he left his agency position to establish what would become Bernstein Crisis Management.

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New Pressure on Federal Response

Recovery Diva

From GovTech: Last Year’s ‘Relentless’ Disasters Challenged Fed Response. In his first year in office, President Biden has found that the nation’s aging infrastructure and pressures from a changing climate are putting new demands on the federal government, officials say.

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What Sounds Do a Million Random Digits Make?

The Rand Blog

The title of RAND's 1955 classic, A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates, doesn't exactly dance off the page. But Paul Dunham, a sound artist in New Zealand, thought the work could make its own kind of music.

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Disaster Zone Podcast: Dealing with Pandemic Mental Health Stress

Disaster Zone

We all have had stress of one sort or another from the pandemic.

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Taiwan and Six Potential New Year's Resolutions for the U.S.-Japanese Alliance

The Rand Blog

How might the United States and Japan prepare for possible conflict with China over Taiwan, and ensure forces are postured to operate together? The alliance could benefit from greater clarity, and practical conversations could make a better and stronger alliance in the new year.

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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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Facility Security Systems are Cyber-Risks

Disaster Zone

Another "back door" into organizations starts with the front door access control system.

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5 Key Considerations for Single Family Residential Electrical Services Based on the 2020 NEC

National Fire Protection Association

For those who regularly install single-family residential electrical services, the work can often seem repetitive. Resulting in a step-by-step process that leaves many with the impression that they can do the work in their sleep. And many likely could. Then there are those who do not have much experience with residential electrical services and are trying to navigate the basics of what goes into. [[ This is a content summary only.

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Detecting and Confronting Procurement Fraud

Risk Management Monitor

Accountancy firm Crowe and credit rating company Experian have said that large enterprises and governments experienced 59% of procurement fraud in the United Kingdom, costing them $120 billion (£89 billion) collectively. It is estimated that over $2 trillion (£1.6 trillion) total is lost each year due to procurement fraud, or 4-8% percent of an organization’s procurement spending.

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What’s new with Citrix Workspace

Citrix

The last year was one of transformation for professionals everywhere, as many organizations adopted new work models due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At Citrix, our vision remains the same: We empower customers to move to a hybrid work model by … The post What’s new with Citrix Workspace first appeared on Citrix Blogs. Related Stories Highlights from the Citrix blog 2021 Boost your user experience with Citrix Workspace app for Chrome OS 3 priorities to consider when choosing hybrid-work techno

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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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SMB Trends for 2022

NexusTek

READ TIME: 4 MIN. January 5, 2022. SMB Trends for 2022. The new year has arrived! For businesses, it is a time to celebrate the successes of 2021, reflect on the lessons learned, and strategize how to enhance the business going forward. The workforce has changed rapidly over the last 24 months. Although the technology term “digital transformation” has been a buzzword for a few years now, a multi-year global pandemic and evolving employee workforce preferences has accelerated the adoption of this

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Women in Insurance: Manisha Bhargava, Global Head of Sales, Alliances, and Solution Engineering, Innoveo

Chisel AI

You’ve managed cross-functional teams of 300 to 3,000 employees. Throughout the pandemic, business leaders have had to manage distributed teams, and everyone has had to learn to collaborate 100 percent virtually. What lasting impact do you think the pandemic will have on the future of work? The pandemic has impacted everyone and changed the ways of work forever across sectors.

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What Employers Need to Know About Federal COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

Risk Management Monitor

In an effort to combat the COVID-19 virus and its subsequent variants, the Biden administration has instituted three important mandates that employers should be aware of as they may impact their business. First, the Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS), issued by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), requires that all employers with 100+ employees mandate vaccination or weekly testing.

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What’s new with Citrix Workspace

Citrix

The last year was one of transformation for professionals everywhere, as many organizations adopted new work models due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At Citrix, our vision remains the same: We empower customers to move to a hybrid work model by … The post What’s new with Citrix Workspace 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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The Human Side of Being On-call: 5 Lessons for Managing Stress, Anxiety, and Life While Being On-call by Derek Ralston

PagerDuty

Within DevOps, we talk a lot about the on-call process—but what about the human side of being on-call? For example, what are effective ways of managing stress and anxiety during a shift? How can one manage life situations that make being on-call difficult—such as being responsible for watching the kids during an on-call rotation? And how can an empathic team culture help prevent burnout and turnover?

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5 Tips for Strengthening Organizational Resilience in 2022

On Solve

2021 was a complex year for businesses around the world. Between supply chain issues, COVID-19, cyber and physical threats, it often seemed like there was always something new lurking around the corner. But for every challenge faced, there were lessons learned. How can you take the challenges of 2021 and become stronger in 2022? Discover five tips about how to create resilience within your organization and confidently handle the coming year.

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Webinar Spotlight: 2022 Veeam Data Protection Trends & Resolutions

OffsiteDataSync

As 2021 comes to a close, many of us will examine what did and didn’t work during the past year, and then vow to make changes that’ll help us improve as we move forward. While these resolutions can sometimes be difficult to keep, when it comes to data protection, Veeam and OffsiteDataSync are making it easy. If you missed our recent joint webinar and are one of the many folks requesting a replay, don’t fret – you can now view “ 2022 Data Protection Trends & Resolutions ” in its entiret

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How to Check Your MariaDB Version

Pure Storage

MariaDB is an open source relational database management system (RDBMS). It works well for storing structured data and is often used for cloud-based applications. MariaDB is a forked open source derivative of MySQL, which is also an RDBMS and is often used for on-premises data storage. Because MariaDB is a fork of the MySQL codebase, the two database engines are similar in syntax and features.