NEW BOOK: Hiles on Business Continuity: Global Best Practices (Third Edition) by Thought Leader Andrew Hiles.
Confidently create your BCP from scratch – or improve the one you have – aided by Hiles’ wide-ranging perspective, including case studies, global standards, and hard-won insights into what works and why. More...
NEW! Easy-to-Use Template for Comprehensive Business Continuity Management to Enhance Your Organization's Resilience
Easy-to-use, comprehensive, expert, step-by-step instructions and templates – just what you’re looking for if you need a clear, actionable Business Continuity Plan More...
NEW BOOK! Lukaszewski on Crisis Communication: What Your CEO Needs to Know about Reputation Risks and Crisis Management, by Jim Lukaszewski
A Global Grand Master and Pioneer – Who Helped Shape the Modern Discipline of Crisis Communication – Has Distilled a Career’s Worth of Knowledge and Practical Advice… to tell your CEO and advisers what they must do to preserve, protect, defend, and recover their brands, reputations, even careers. More...
Facility Emergency Management DVD-based training
Facility Emergency Management is a brand new DVD-based Training Program PLUS a resource CD-ROM intended to help small and medium size organizations create facility action plans and institute emergency procedures in order to protect workers, customers, visitors and the nearby community from the effects of an incident, whether it begins inside or outside the facility. More...
Emergency Management Exercises: From Response to Recovery Special
Exercises are a mainstay in the field of emergency management and business continuity planning. Although many companies conduct exercises, and the organizers may be emergency response subject matter experts, they do not excel in the discipline of designing and conducting the actual exercise – which means they simply don’t get the best results out of their effort. More...
NEW BOOK! The Cost of Emotions in the Workplace: Bottom Line Value of Emotional Continuity Management
Dr. Vali Hawkins Mitchell, a leading authority in the growing field of Emotional Continuity Management, makes a compelling business case that human emotions have a calculable, direct impact on the fiscal bottom line, and gives you powerful, practical tools to manage those costs. More...
Business Survival ™ News Global Disaster AlertAre you prepared for a major business disruption? A flood? Blackout? Fire? Data loss?
Continue reading Before Disaster Strikes: Find Out How You Can Get Ready
After several close calls with hurricanes, executives at Florida Hospital in Orlando decided to rethink their disaster plans. A direct hit by a storm could, of course, endanger patients. But it could also destroy the technology that the facility depends on for medical records, clinical test results, and accounting.
Continue reading CEO Guide to Disaster Preparedness: The Importance of Disaster Plans
Tags: Business Continuity, disaster preparedness, Disaster Recovery, Florida Hospital, hospital, Sungard
Most people living in seismic zones the world over do little to prepare themselves for earthquakes. This may seem like a contradiction in terms. After all, what can one do in the face of such a massively destructive force? But there is plenty that can be done.
(AP photo/Kyodo News)
Continue reading Cultural Barriers to Earthquake Preparedness
Tags: cultural barriers, disaster preparedness, Earthquakes, EPICentre
If you needed a natural catastrophe to show you the value of business continuity and disaster recovery for your clients’ businesses, you were already doing them a grave disservice, and it’s unlikely you’ve really learned anything at all beyond keeping an ear tuned to the Weather Channel and petitioning the gods of Santeria for fair winds. Good luck with that.
The post Hurricane Sandy lessons learned keep coming in as it becomes plain that some credit unions had woefully inadequate disaster recovery and business continuity plans, but other institutions kept operating despite the devastation that hit much of New Jersey and New York City.
Continue reading Hurricane Sandy Lessons in Disaster Recovery
Tags: credit unions, disaster preparedness, Disaster Recovery, hurricane Sandy
For all of Hurricane’s Sandy’s power and fury, it also spawned a silent killer that could become one of the storm’s deadliest legacies.
Carbon monoxide poisoning has claimed at least five lives in New Jersey since Monday, mostly from the fumes of gas- or diesel-powered generators.
Continue reading Sandy’s silent killer: Carbon monoxide deaths spring up after storm
Tags: carbon monoxide, CO, disaster preparedness, fumes, generators, hurricane Sandy
Seasoned disaster planners get their your own houses in order before helping others plan for emergencies like Hurricane Sandy. Preparing your own personal emergency Go Bag is a good start, says Vali Hawkins Mitchell, Ph.D., LMHC.
Continue reading Creating a Go Bag
Tags: disaster preparedness, go bag
Disaster Recovery Journal’s Spring World 2013 is the premier business continuity conference. If you would like to join us in Orlando, but are not sure how to gain funding, DRJ can help!
Continue reading Tips for Attending DRJ’s Spring World 2013
Tags: Business Continuity, disaster preparedness, Disaster Recovery, Disaster Recovery Journal, Risk Management
CrisisTracker offers an alternative way to browse social media activity around large-scale events, in particular disasters. The system automatically tracks and maps a set of keywords on Twitter and clusters tweets based on their word similarity.
Tags: crisis tracking, disaster preparedness, mapping, Mappy, Twitter, Twittersphere
Act now if you want to become a presenter at DRJ’s next conference, Spring World 2013. Bring your message to hundreds of practitioners! Spring World 2013 is the premiere industry conference, showcasing only the best topics and presenters.
Deadline for Speaker Submissions Ending SoonAct now if you want to become a presenter at DRJ’s next conference, Spring World 2013. Bring your message to hundreds of practitioners! Spring World 2013 is the premiere industry conference, showcasing only the best topics and presenters. To join our elite group of presenters, complete the Call for Papers form on our website. The deadline for applying is Sept. 24. Spring World 2013 will be held March 17-20, 2013 at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, Fla. We are looking for vibrant, dynamic speakers who want to share their knowledge with practitioners from a variety of industry fields. Past topics have included industry standards, compliance, gaining C-level support, crisis management, cloud computing and dozens of other cutting-edge subjects. Our attendees’ range from novice to advanced, so we are looking for a variety of sessions that address each experience level. General sessions are one hour long and are presented to the entire attendee audience. Workshops are three+ hours and should include hands-on exercises or other interaction. Breakout sessions are one hour in length and placed into six categories, strategic, managerial, technical, emergency response, advanced and information. Submit your presentation idea today! We’d love to have you join us at our show!
Spring World 2013 Site LaunchedDRJ has another exciting conference underway! We are in the planning stages for Spring World 2013. This conference will be the 48th conference sponsored by Disaster Recovery Journal. Make plans to join us at the beautiful Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort. This excellent venue is the perfect location for networking and education. Spring World 2013 will showcase industry experts who will tackle the topics that matter most to practitioners. Our speakers are selected for their knowledge and industry experience, and only unbiased, practical information is allowed. This is the conference to attend! Low fees and loads more learning opportunities than any other industry show. Our years of experience allow us to produce the ultimate conference experience for our attendees. Whether you are a novice in the industry or have decades of experience, you will find the information you need to become a more productive, efficient and knowledgeable leader. Our One-Day Senior Advanced Track returns for the spring show. This track was hugely popular last year and is designed for those with advanced experience. Our session agenda has not been released yet. But you can browse the Spring World 2013 site and see the exciting events we have for our attendees! |
Tags: Business Continuity, disaster preparedness, Disaster Recovery, Disaster Recovery Journal, Risk Management
If your business faces a serious flood or hurricane threat, this “master of disaster” toolkit helps you quickly develop a clear, comprehensive, and actionable plan…
Continue reading Hurricane Season is HERE NOW. Here’s the New Planning Tool You’re Going to Need!
Tags: 1-931332-60-6, 1931332606, 978-1-931332-60-6, 9781931332606, disaster preparedness, Douglas Henderson, flood, hurricane, template, Template for Hurricane and Flood Business Continuity
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