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Product Review: Water Purification Tool for Everyone

Disaster Zone

For the person in your life who has everything, but not this item

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What Kind of Year Has It Been? DRIVE Looks at the Big (and Small) Stories of 2021

DRI Drive

To say 2021 has been eventful is, of course, an understatement. From big news stories like the Texas snowstorm, to smaller curiosities like the Halloween candy hack, we looked back the past year of coverage in Drive to offer a trip down memory lane.

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Crisis Communications Tips for Recorded Talks

Bernstein Crisis Management

Expert advice for hard conversations with clients, the media, and anyone in between.

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Federal Disaster Recovery Resources

Recovery Diva

From the Homeland Security Digital Library: Listing of Federal Disaster Recovery Resources

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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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How a children’s book saved my life

DisasterDoc

My story begins in the Midwestern United States during the mid-1960s with My Weekly Reader, a weekly educational magazine designed for children. Kids in schools throughout the United States (over. The post How a children’s book saved my life appeared first on DisasterDoc.

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9 reasons good employees leave — and how to prevent it

CIO Governance

News of the Great Resignation isn’t overblown. Some 4 million people quit their jobs in July, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. And companies reported a record-breaking high of 10.9 million open positions.

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25 Data Protection Predictions from 14 Experts for 2022

Solutions Review

We polled 30 experts and received 60 data protection predictions for 2022, in an attempt to help you make the best business decisions.

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Waste: The critical legacy of flooding 

Crisis Response Journal

The growing importance of waste management is pushing society to consider it to be as vital as other CI sectors such as energy, and transportation, writes Lina Kolesnikova

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Risk Management at Eight Knots! Episode 1, Situational Awareness

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

Skippering a sailboat involves lots of inputs - weather, seas, crew, passengers, etc. and requires keeping a constant eye on all of them. Situaitonal Awareness has business applications as well. Enjoy the video

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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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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Emergency Planning

Some years ago I met a 31-year-old Bulgarian policeman whose main claim to fame was that he had been the Chief of Police for the Republic of Haiti for 20 minutes, or in other words until someone more senior arrived from Port-au-Prince airport.

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Paper Ballots Provide Security to Election Systems

Disaster Zone

Some states have no paper ballots

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Climate Threats Create Catastrophic Flooding in Pacific Northwest

DRI Drive

An unusually intense “atmospheric river event” – fast-moving, moisture-laden air that brings intense rain – hit British Columbia and northern Washington state last week, resulting in record precipitation, flooding, and mudslides that have displaced thousands – and it’s about to get worse.

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Practicing Restraint of Pen, Tongue and Send Button

Bernstein Crisis Management

A critical crisis prevention best practice. That darn Send button.

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Info Source on Disaster Economics

Recovery Diva

Source of info on Disaster Economics

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Tornado Risk Reduction – An American Success Story

DisasterDoc

The US experiences more tornadoes than any other country on earth, with an average of over 1,000 tornadoes recorded each year. Canada is a distant second, with around 100. The post Tornado Risk Reduction – An American Success Story appeared first on DisasterDoc.

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Hurricane Ready-Residential

Disaster Safety

Download the Hurricane Ready Checklist. Each year, hurricanes threaten the coast with damaging winds and rain. Whether you’re renovating or re-roofing, or preparing for hurricane season or an approaching storm, IBHS has science-backed tips to help. Prepare now and be Hurricane Ready.

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7 compliance mistakes to avoid

CIO Governance

Compliance is a fact of life for just about every company — especially in highly regulated industries such as healthcare, financial services, and government.

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5 Important Cybersecurity Lessons Learned In 2021

LAN Infotech

5 Important Cybersecurity Lessons Learned In 2021. 2021 saw a lot of challenges throughout the cybersecurity industry.

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Russia shootings: Lone wolves and their characters 

Crisis Response Journal

September 2021: Lina Kolesnikova analyses two shootings – one at a school and one at a university, looking at each attacker’s profile, their pre-attack behaviour and their plans

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Winter Gadgets to Help You Stay Warm

Constellation

Staying warm has gone high tech with winter gadgets that help you beat the chill. Yes, putting on a sweater and fuzzy slippers still works, but smart technology for winter offers you a variety of. This is a content summary only. Click on the blog title to continue reading this post.).

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A Five-Minute Plea for Better Civil Protection

Emergency Planning

Although we need to change attitudes to disaster from response to preparedness and prevention, this must not be done at the expense of our ability to respond to disasters when they occur.

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Disaster Zone Podcast: Climate Impacts and Solutions for Local Government

Disaster Zone

Everyone has a role and it starts with climate adaptation by cities and counties

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The Great 2021 Cream Cheese Shortage: A Perfect Storm of Supply Chain and Cyber Attack Woes

DRI Drive

You may have heard about some shops having trouble keeping cream cheese in stock – but do you know the role an October cyberattack played? The recent cream cheese shortage isn’t just because during the holidays, as festive baking results in demand reaching its highest peak for the year.

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Premeditated Stupidity

Bernstein Crisis Management

University of South Carolina President Plagiarizes Speech. If you have any doubt about whether stupidity has any relationship to IQ or education, the answer is clearly “no” as exemplified by the University of South Carolina’s president, Retired Army Lt.

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Hurricane Study

Recovery Diva

Report from the NYTimes on new MIT study: Study finds Atlantic hurricanes becoming more frequent, destructive. Hurricanes are the most costly disasters for the United States, and a study suggests they’re increasing in number and ferocity

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7 years after Flint, another water public health crisis is born of neglect

DisasterDoc

We all need water. It is a physiological need for all life on Earth. Lack of proper water sources in a community would easily constitute a public health crisis. Sphere. The post 7 years after Flint, another water public health crisis is born of neglect appeared first on DisasterDoc.

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Nine budget friendly ways to prepare your commercial building BEFORE the winter season

Disaster Safety

Winter weather can cause business disruption, structural damage to buildings from excessive snow loads, water damage from bursting frozen pipes, and can generate dangerous ice dams on the roof. Depending on your business’ specific location, it could have greater risk of exposure to these elements.

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Lean Six Sigma: Process improvement with a purpose

CIO Governance

Lean Six Sigma combines two methodologies, Lean and Six Sigma, to help accelerate specific processes so that organizations can solve problems faster and reduce waste, while creating more value for customers.

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The Future of Commercial Insurance: AI and Humans Working Together

Chisel AI

Basically, AI is a prediction engine. The more data you feed the system, the more accurate it gets over time. The human-in-the-loop (HITL) approach combines the best of human intelligence and judgement with the best of machine intelligence.

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Refugee camps and Covid-19: A crisis within a crisis  

Crisis Response Journal

September 2021: In the third part of CRJ’s blog series discussing the ongoing Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh, Dr Kazi Sakib outlines the co-ordinated response by humanitarian and government agencies

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The 16 Best Data Protection Software Companies for 2022

Solutions Review

Solutions Review’s listing of the best Data Protection Software offerings is an annual mashup of products that best represent current market conditions, according to the crowd.

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20 Secrets Hackers Don’t Want You To Know

LAN Infotech

20 Secrets Hackers Don’t Want You To Know. In 2020, there were 1001 data breach cases in the US, according to Statista. And in 2021, things don’t seem to get any better as the data breach incidents through September 2021 have exceeded the number of publicly reported cases by 17%.

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