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Crisis Communication Strategy: First 5 Things To Do When a Crisis Breaks

Bernstein Crisis Management

Crisis Communication Strategy: First 5 Things To Do When a Crisis Breaks A major part of any crisis communication strategy is doing the preparedness and prevention work before you find yourself facing true crisis-level events that threaten to harm people or property, seriously interrupt operations and/or damage reputation.

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Train Derailment and Chemical Explosion Exposes Clear and Present Danger in Railway Safety

DRI Drive

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How Many US&R Teams Are There?

Disaster Zone

More than just the FEMA teams identified in an earlier post

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More on Building Codes In Turkey

Recovery Diva

From the WashPost: Earthquakes Destroy. People Rebuild. Cities are a form of life and they need constant care to stay strong. They didn’t get that care in Turkey. An Excerpt: “According to The Associated Press, a Turkish government agency has acknowledged that more than half of all buildings in the country don’t meet earthquake standards ”

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

This webinar with Tim Buteyn will teach you strategies for motivating learners even when training them on "boring" topics, methods to capture learner attention and bring your courses to life, and techniques that convert a course from dry and lifeless to relevant and engaging.

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Support to Ukraine Continues to Be for America First

The Rand Blog

Why should the United States spend tens of billions of dollars on a war half a world away? Because it's in America's economic and strategic interests

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Ohio Train Derailment — Continued Impacts

Disaster Zone

The environment we live in

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Comparing Building Requirements in 3 Countries

Recovery Diva

From the WashPost: Opinion: 3 charts show how better buildings save lives in earthquakes. “Though it might take weeks or months to confirm the death toll across Turkey and Syria, the latest number has topped 36,000. This makes this month’s earthquake the deadliest in the region in more than a century. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said it was “not possible to be prepared for such a disaster.” Data comparing similarly seismic countries suggests otherwise.

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From Gatherer of Lands to Gravedigger: A Political Assessment of Putin's War on Ukraine

The Rand Blog

Putin's war in Ukraine is already redefining the entire international order. If the United States acts now, it may be able to influence the shape of the post-war geopolitical terrain

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NexusTek Recognized on CRN’s 2023 MSP 500 List

NexusTek

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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 this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enhance your professional development and lifelong learning.

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Why Was the Chinese Balloon So Big?

Disaster Zone

Short answer: It was an antenna

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Update on Turkish Earthquakes

Recovery Diva

As of Sat. am at almost 10am in the US, the news reports say that deaths in Turkey and Syria have reached 25,000. And various estimates for homeless people run as high at 5 million! For emergency management personnel these numbers are incredible and beyond most planners expectations. It is worth taking some time to think about what it will take to cope with these outcomes

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BCM Basics: The Strategic Side of Crisis Management  

MHA Consulting

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. Most companies have a pretty good handle on the tactical side of crisis management.

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7 Reasons Businesses Love Having a Dedicated Engineer

NexusTek

READ TIME: 4 MIN February 14, 2023 7 Reasons Businesses Love Having a Dedicated Engineer It’s Valentine’s Day, and love is in the air. And in the world of IT management, few are so roundly adored as dedicated engineers. This may prompt the question: What is a dedicated engineer?

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Disaster Zone Podcast: Becoming Prepared to Deal with Any Disaster

Disaster Zone

New thinking on a challenging topic

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Earthquake in Turkey, Syria: Insights from RAND Researchers

The Rand Blog

More than 36,000 people have been confirmed dead in one the strongest earthquakes to hit Turkey and Syria in the past century. As search-and-rescue missions continue and recovery begins, a handful of RAND researchers shared some of their initial thoughts

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FlashArray Delivers NVMe/TCP in Move Toward Cloud Operating Model

Pure Storage

Has this happened to you? You’ve modernized your storage infrastructure to boost performance, replacing disk-based solutions with all-flash arrays and upgrading to 200G+ Ethernet switches.

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Welcome to the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) class of 2023!

Citrix

In 2018, we restructured the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) program by partnering CTP members with Citrix product managers and engineers to form specialty product-focused groups.

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Bing and Google Square Off on Using AI

Disaster Zone

Search engine wars are only beginning

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Russia's Appetite May Extend Beyond Ukraine

The Rand Blog

Unless Russian forces are defeated in Ukraine or withdrawn by new Kremlin rulers, Moscow might assault other post-Soviet neighbors. The West may face limits on the extent to which it could help them thwart such attacks

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FlashBlade 4.1: Introducing Object Lock

Pure Storage

For the past decade, object storage has replaced many legacy enterprise storage platforms like tape, virtual tape library (VTL), purpose-built backup appliances, and others due to its inherent advantages with performance and scale.

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Announcing the newest Citrix Technology Advocate (CTA) awardees!

Citrix

We are very excited to share the newest additions to our Citrix Technology Advocate (CTA) class of 2023! CTAs are Citrix User Group Community super-users.

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Mobile Energy Storage Systems

National Fire Protection Association

Mobile energy storage systems are being deployed in jurisdictions around the world, and—as demonstrated by a 2023 New Year’s Day mobile energy storage system fire—accidents can happen. We want to make sure communities are prepared for when these systems are deployed in their backyard.

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Brain and Machine Confluence Requires Multi-Sectoral Regulation To Maximize Gains

The Rand Blog

As the commercialization of brain-computer interface technology expands, it would be prudent for international policymakers to consider how this technology should be regulated, in order to reap its benefits and minimize its risks

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Pure Announces NVMe/TCP, Another Step Towards the Cloud Operating Model

Pure Storage

Whether for processing the data generated by your business or keeping that deluge of data protected, boosting storage performance is always a priority.

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How the 7-Eleven Storefront Crash Settlement Highlights the Importance of Retail Safety and Perimeter Security

Security Industry Association

Taking precautions like installing safety bollards and protective barriers can not only help prevent hostile attacks, but also guard against commonplace accidents. On Feb.

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Six Common Challenges to Migration Projects and Tips to Overcome Them

Zerto

Datacenter migration projects can be some of the most challenging events in an IT professional’s career. Whether moving workloads to another datacenter, to the cloud, or to the edge, migrations may be impacted by many factors but many of these can be overcome with proper planning and the right tools.

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Earthquake in Turkey and Syria, Facial Recognition, Gun Violence: RAND Weekly Recap

The Rand Blog

This weekly recap focuses on the devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria, regulating the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement, improving data collection on gun violence, and more

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Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Challenges and How Pure Helps Solve Them

Pure Storage

The world’s digitization has led the semiconductor market to take off. You’ve probably seen the headlines: Sales have increased more than 20% to about $600 billion in 2021 and are anticipated to grow by 6% to 8% a year until 2030.

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Five Cybersecurity Sessions You Can’t Miss at ISC West

Security Industry Association

ISC West 2023 is coming up March 28-31 in Las Vegas, and the Security Industry Association (SIA) and ISC West recently revealed full conference details for the SIA Education@ISC West program , including keynote presentations from top luminaries and 65+ sessions on the most current business trends, technologies and industry developments.

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New Citrix Secure Hub for iOS app store experience now available!

Citrix

As we move ahead in 2023 with Citrix Endpoint Management innovations, we are excited to announce the preview of the newly designed Citrix Secure Hub for iOS app store experience. What are the improvements?

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Disaster Responses – What Can We Learn?

Plan B Consulting

Charlie talks about our responses after a disaster and addresses some misconceptions about immediate responders. I watched the footage of the response to the earthquake in Turkey with tears in my eyes.

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Preventing Military Sexual Assault Is Important. So Is Getting Mental Health Care Afterward

The Rand Blog

Despite a decade of scrutiny on the issue, sexual assault and harassment in the military is still a pervasive problem. The effects of the trauma from these assaults can be lasting.

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