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The following are priority items identified by the steering committee which should contribute to the value, growth and financial sustainability of PTSC-Online:

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Creating a Canadian Red Cross Disaster Management Unit - Barry Radford

What do you do when you live in an area where pagers won't work?

That's what the newly formed Canadian Red Cross Muskoka-West Parry Sound Disaster Management team faced as we geared up operations.

Beautiful lakes, small towns, rock and trees makes this area desirable but not the best for traditional emergency call out systems for the Red Cross. Stephen Dubois, Disaster Management volunteer came up with up with a creative…

Although you may not have read many articles from Ann Wyganowski I believe it will be helpful for you to learn about her contributions to PTSC-Online and how you can benefit from them, either directly or by applying the principles she used to your own organization or projects. 

You may have noticed some reference to GTIME in PTSC-Online, but unless you were part of the GTIME project you might not know much about it because it has been operating as a private group space.  Ann and Michael Smith …

We are very thankful for the excellent articles which have been contributed to PTSC-Online over the past year, but as I review them I wonder if we are missing something? Using CSA Z1600 terminology I developed a few questions that are listed below that we might want to ask ourselves to help identify areas where on line networking with our peers might make our tasks a little easier in 2012.

If you are not encountering any challenges in developing, implementing and evaluating your emergency…

PTSC-Online was created to encourage improvement in Canadian emergency management, business continuity and critical infrastructure protection programs. It is designed to bring about improvement by facilitating communication and collaboration among personnel who are responsible for those programs to help them work together on common issues, share best practices etc. It provides better technology than most web sites in use today and has significant social media suppor which helps it reach a wider…

We are thankful to those who have helped PTSC-Online over the past year. Public Safety Canada's financial support helped us set up PTSC-Online but that ended in March 2011. Sean Tracey and NFPA's financial support as a gold sponsor has been critical for our continued operation and we are pleased that his NFPA Canada group space has enabled Sean to improve communication with organizations which use NFPA standards in Canada. We appreciate Patrice Cloutier and Barry Radford for their excellent arti…

Please accept my personal wishes for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Here is a link to my Christmas Greeting in my blog. 

Most of PTSC-Online can be viewed by the public.  Anyone can, with recent upgrades to our community, also comment on articles and calendar entries etc. using their e-mail address, whereas previously one had to be a member to leave comments. PTSC-Online membership provides access to private sections to which members have been granted access, enables members to create a personal profile, write blog, wiki and discussion forum articles and create calendar entries. In other words it enables members…

PTSC-Online blogs can be a powerful communication and collaboration tool. They are available to our members who can use the existing blog channels, or if it better serves the intended purpose, new blog channels can be created.  The purpose of this e-mail is to make you aware of two new blog channels which have been created to help develop alliances with other organizations.  These channels can be mutually beneficial to all participants because they can use PTSC-Online and our social media…