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Organizational Couch Potatoes – A False Sense of Preparedness
I was rummaging through some old files the other day and I came across my copy of the After Action Report (AAR) for Quakex97. This was a joint local, state and federal medical exercise based on a...
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Was Fire That Devastated Gatlinburg Tennessee Preventable?
The death toll from a devastating blaze in and around the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee rose to 13 on Friday December21, 2016. The highest loss of civilian life from a single U.S....
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Your Community Manager will need to develop a social media crisis management plan in advance, with the full participation of everyone in the agency. Communication Points to Consider 1. Listen and Be...
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Who Wins the Recovery Race after Hurricane Harvey – Ants or People?
I once thought that a disturbed ants nest was a great example of high entropy. It’s not. Don’t believe me? Go kick a fire ant nest and stand there. A wave of ants emerges to search and destroy the...
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Avoid the Blame Game
As I’m writing this, Texas is still in an active emergency response mode so many answers are months away from discovery but I think one thing needs to be stated. I don’t think the Emergency Management...
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In an emergency or disaster, how important is your phone?
With the current smart devices most of us carry there is rarely a task we can’t do on our phone that used to be reserved for our laptops. Agreed, I would rather write on my computer, but for essential...
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Talk is Cheap
I fly quite a bit. Enough on Delta that I can pretty much recite their safety briefing. But I still put down my paper, take my ear buds out or stop staring at my smart device while they do their jobs....
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Staying Open for Business When Others Close is Opportunity
I was reading an article in Business Insider about the challenges natural disasters create for many businesses. One in four small to medium sized businesses will not reopen after a major storm. Small...
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Hurricane Season Approaches-Prepare to Recover
June 1st will be the official start date of the 2018 hurricane season. The season, according to one forecast may see as many as 18 named storms, with one to five of them developing into major...
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Using LinkedIn for Good
For those that have been on LinkedIn for the past decade you’ve seen changes. Originally it was a site where professionals were connecting and engaging in discussions on a wide range of work related...
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