June, 2016

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Artificial intelligence: Essential ingredient but no panacea 

Crisis Response Journal

Michael McCabe says that although artificial intelligence brings real benefits in the security and resilience fields, it is unlikely that the human factor will become obsolete.

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Unitrends is Hiring Channel Account Managers

ChannelBloom

Position Description: The Channel Account Manager is responsible for aiding in identifying, developing, and expanding relationships with resellers with their Regional Senior Channel Account Manager. Duties of a CAM may include training, mentoring, and motivating channel partners in the assigned territory; generating additional demand through partner events, calls, emails, etc.; studying the market for newer trends and reporting the same to management; monitoring partner output and revenue; maki

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Selling Business Continuity to the C-Suite: Don’t!

Plan B Consulting

This bulletin week Charlie talks about the importance of senior manager buy-in within business continuity. In my last job before PlanB Consulting and Business Continuity Training, I was working for a consultancy in Perth. I worked closely with the organisation’s salesman and we were often on the road together selling business continuity. This salesman had sold everything to everyone and had ‘been around the block’ several times.

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The Essential Emergency Notification System Checklist: 5 Steps to Implementation Success

Alert Media

The post The Essential Emergency Notification System Checklist: 5 Steps to Implementation Success appeared first on AlertMedia.

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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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Brexit in seven possible scenarios 

Crisis Response Journal

Considering the British desire to leave the EU, and the extremely harsh words used by its critics of Europe, European authorities take immediate and draconian measures, without the encumbrance of excessive legislation.

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Webinar: 7 Ways to Improve Data Backup, Recovery and Business Continuity

ChannelBloom

Date: Wednesday, June 22. Time: 11 am ET / 8 am PT / 3 pm GMT. 91% of IT organizations have experienced downtime over the past 2 years at an average cost of nearly $8,000 a minute. Even if this hasn’t happened to you or one of your customers, it’s clear partners and customers should start to shift their thinking from backup and recovery to continuity.

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Final conference of European Critical Infrastructure Protection project 

Crisis Response Journal

The Euconcip (European Co-operation Network on Critical Infrastructure Protection) Final Conference was held in Brussels from June 8 – 9, 2016. This final event represented an interactive two-?

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Security challenges facing the Balkans 

Crisis Response Journal

Editorial Advisory Panel Member Lina Kolesnikova reports on a conference that looked at crime in the Balkans, including human rights, the impact of the refugee crisis, growing fears of radicalisation in certain countries - just a few of the serious proble By Lina Kolesnikova

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Low cost weather centres to help prevent flash flooding in Sri Lanka 

Crisis Response Journal

Soumya Balasubramanya and Yann Chemin describe how open-source mobile weather monitoring centres are being installed to reduce the risk of flash floods in Sri Lanka.

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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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Selling Business Continuity to the C-Suite: Don’t!

Plan B Consulting

This bulletin week Charlie talks about the importance of senior manager buy-in within business continuity. In my last job before PlanB Consulting and Business Continuity Training, I was working for a consultancy in Perth. I worked closely with the organisation’s salesman and we were often on the road together selling business continuity. This salesman had sold everything to everyone and had ‘been around the block’ several times.

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Planning Ahead: The Benefits of Templates in Your Emergency Notification Software

Alert Media

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Your Emergency Notification Software: Building Resilience through Monitoring

Alert Media

The post Your Emergency Notification Software: Building Resilience through Monitoring appeared first on AlertMedia.

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AlertMedia Philanthropy: Giving Back to our Austin Community

Alert Media

The post AlertMedia Philanthropy: Giving Back to our Austin Community appeared first on AlertMedia.

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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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MicroAge Steakout – Minneapolis, MN – June 22nd

ChannelBloom

Want to effectively and seamlessly protect your company’s data? Join us over a delicious steak lunch to learn more about Unitrends’ backup and disaster recovery solutions. Unitrends solutions are built to be flexible as you adapt your environment – whether physical or virtual – so it’s easy to protect and recover data in case of a disruptive event.

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SUPERSIZE Your Disaster Recovery for State Local Government/Education (SLED)

ChannelBloom

SUPERSIZE Your Unitrends. Recovery Series Appliance. Unitrends offers comprehensive protection and true recovery assurance. Our Recovery-Series physical appliances provide local data backup and recovery for physical and virtual environments, with the option to integrate with our cloud (or yours) for long term data retention and offsite disaster recovery. ?