Emergency Manager
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Med-Media software speeds triage at disaster sites
Insight Emergency response teams are constantly looking at ways to improve field operations during an emergency. This case study examines one solution a rescue team uses to get critical medical information to rescuers in the field without all the bulk.
Texting and tweeting through Obama's swearing in
News Inauguration planners are turning to Twitter and text messaging to keep things organized when President-elect Barack Obama is sworn in January 20.
Tags: Web sites, Politics, Location-based services, Apple Inc., Twitter, Ceremony, Text Messaging, District of Columbia, Emergency Management, Washington
Create a scalable remote management strategy
Techguide A scalable remote management strategy ensures that your remote administration tools will keep working for you as the network grows.
Emergency response the weakest link in organizational resilience
Blogs I think of organizational resilience as a chain that links security, emergency management (EM), disaster recovery, busin...
Sample influenza business continuity plan
Blogs My colleague and fellow IAEM Asia member Chew Lip Heng and I started writing a sample corporate incident action plan (IA...
Ultimate 2012 recovery site: the moon
Blogs Have you seen the disaster movie "2012"? A friend from Control Risks and I did, and we reluctantly concluded we wouldn't...
Is Tamiflu 'better' than Relenza?
Blogs I can find no clinical evidence that Roche's Tamiflu is more effective than GlaxoSmithKline's less-prescribed Relenza ag...
Sub-prime BCM certification in Asia
Blogs What does it really mean for an individual to be "certified" in business continuity? Like the euphemism "sub-prime",...
Asia earthquakes heighten BCP need
Blogs It's hard not to notice the earthquake risk around the Pacific Rim these days. I'm not sure if the risk is actually high...
India conference bridges 'resilience professions'
Blogs There is no more important long-term challenge in protecting businesses, homes and lives than bridging the knowledge gap...
Internationally-recognized BCM certifications for BCP professionals
Blogs Here in Asia, many professionals are interested in earning certifications in business continuity and the related fields ...
Flood advice should come from real experts
Blogs Would you invite the one person in the world most associated with incompetent flood preparation and response to be the c...
Part II: Professionalism and sourcing
Blogs I wasn't overwhelmed with responses to my previous blog about professionalism in the sourcing industry, so I thought I w...
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing
Sun aims to bolster disaster warning systems
Techguide Server company teams with Pacific Disaster Center to provide research, analysis and early emergency alerts.
Tags: Disaster recovery, Business planning
Here come the 'Twitter, we did it first' lawsuits
News Service that makes emergency-management messaging software has sued Twitter over alleged patent infringement. The legal documents, however, are pretty vague.
Tags: Web 2.0, Legal, Twitter, Lawsuit, Emergency Management, Harvard University, Mark Zuckerberg, emergency response, Facebook, founder
