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Between risk communications and crisis communications, the line is very fine. So fine than sometimes, even emergency professionals have difficulties distinguishing between the two. One is not the other. But if you didn’t invest in risk comms, making your crisis comms effective is going to be harder, for you as emergency managers or professionals and the public we serve.
We see and read a lot of articles about crisis communication and those are necessary tools for your planning efforts. But, risk communication is all about education and prevention. It's where the audiences that you're trying to reach, really get integrated in your planning and become stakeholders.
Our audiences want to be part of the process and are no longer content with just being spectators. So, risk communication is where you start engaging with your citizens or target audience and not…
February 17, 2012
Call for Webinars - Business Continuity Awareness Week
Call for webinars to be delivered during March 19th - 23rd business continuity week. Here is a chance to share your expertise and contribute to more effective emergency management / business continuity programs. In addition to following up as requested in this article, please comment on the article to share your webinar requests or suggestions.
Business Continuity Awareness Week is approaching rapidly. The dates for 2012 are March 19 -23. The theme for this year is: "The Time to Act is Now. " with the sub text: "A disaster is not the time to think about what to do next."
One of the key activities taking place during that week, as in the past, will be a series of webinars focused on business continuity and emergency management. One of DRIE Toronto's coordination roles is to organize the calendar of BCAW events and we are welcoming…
February 17, 2012
New Municipal Infrastructure Forum
This month, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) hosted the first-ever meeting of the Municipal Infrastructure Forum, a national group of municipal, business, and industry leaders formed to support the Government of Canada's development of a new long-term infrastructure plan.
February 17, 2012
Canada's Military Infrastructure - National Defence
In Fall 2012, the Office of the Auditor General of Canada will release a report to the House of Commons on military infrastructure.
When you have a sound social media monitoring program you are in a much better position to be able to have your messaging be "competitive" in the open market that are social networks thus enhancing your capability to shape public opinion favourably.
Series introduction (October 12, 2011)
Part 1: starting from scratch (October 23, 2011)
Part 2: Setting objectives and measurement (October 23, 2011)
Part 3: Choosing your first social network (November 2, 2011)
Part 4 Interactive use of social media (November 22, 2011)
Part 5: monitoring social media as a routine and going into crisis mode (December 20, 2011)
Monitoring social networks should now be part of any organization's daily routine and procedures. You can even real-life events to…
Amended Act makes certain improvements in the laws relating to cybersecurity and for other purposes.
The Strategy articulates the Administration’s vision for working with international partners and the global private sector to promote the efficient and secure movement of goods throughout the global economy, and foster the development of a supply chain system more resilient to major disruptions, whether natural or manmade.
With a lot of effort by Guylaine Maltais we now have a French language section in PTSC-Online. Please help us develop this section by advising your friends and associates who wish to communicate and network in French.
Many thanks to Guylaine Maltais for the effort she has put into developing the French language space within PTSC-Online. Guylaine has graciously agreed to be the administrator for the French section and she has started to blog on risk management which is her area of expertise.
Some fine tuning will be required as we develop and expand this section. If you have suggestions for improvement or would like to contribute to the French space, please contact Guylaine. Please also thank her for her…
The purpose of this update is to share some highlights from the January PTSC-Online Steering Committee web conference. I believe some excellent suggestions / recommendations were identified to help build our on line community, but to provide the most benefit to our members and viewers we need you to tell us which items will most interest and benefit you.
Please use the stars or the like or dislike buttons to tell us if you think we are going in the right direction. Please also comment on the items listed below to tell us which items most interest and would benefit you or your organization. You do not have to be a PTSC-Online member to comment. We want to hear from all of you.
The following are priority items identified by the steering committee which should contribute to the value, growth and financial sustainability of PTSC-Online:
- Continu…
The non-refundable tax credit is available to any volunteer firefighter who serves at least 200 hours per year at one or more fire departments beginning on January 1, 2011. This provides good recognition and an incentive to volunteer ones services. What are the chances of expanding this credit to many other volunteers who support our emergency management programs?
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- Training Opportunity…A query to EMI on the above issue yielded the following response:
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… - Training Opportunity…William, I tried this course on-line; however, it does not accept Canadian info. Is there a work-a-round?
- Status Report # 44 -…Kimberly - here are a couple of sources for free current information and peer information sharing:
The BCI website - http://thebci.org/ - click on… - Status Report # 44 -…Thank you for your comment and request Guylaine. I have added a Risk Communication blog channel.
Thank you also Kimberly, I will send a broadcast… - Status Report # 44 -…I'm looking for BCP best practices, training, guidelines, stories from individuals who have dealt with a disaster or a crisis to understand and what…
- Status Report # 44 -…I think there's should be a channel for risk communication. I know the line between risk comms and crisis comms is thin, but they need to be traited…
- Status Report # 44 -…Thanks for your comment Randy. As your area of expertise is e-learning I hope you noticed e-learning was listed as one of the topics in which we…
- Status Report # 44 -…Thanks for your comment Kimberly. I agree we could use more business continuity and disaster recovery information. Hopefully opening the GTIME space…
- Status Report # 44 -…Kimberly - thanks for the thumbs up....as I'm fairly new to this domain, would you be so kind as to give a few specific bullet points relating to…
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Lots of free material along with the 2012 webinar schedule and past BCAW…