We Must Act Now to Save Our Children! America’s schools are under attack and our children are dying needlessly. All of our lives are impacted when a soft-target is attacked whether it is by an irate demented former student, embittered employee or a terrorist organization. We are all in theRead More
Communication is core to humanity and your business and career success. New digital communication tools and technologies are shrinking our world by providing better, faster and cheaper ways for people and businesses to connect under any circumstance. Digital also makes one to one, one to many and many to manyRead More
‘You are only as good as your contact data.’ (Suggestions in this posts focus mainly on employee contact data but are helpful with vendor and customer data as well). Tools mentioned in this post are focused on my recommended mass notification tools. In a previous post, we discussed how toRead More
Why situational awareness is critical: During a crisis or during business as usual we MUST understand what is happening that can impact us. Situational awareness enables us to understand the probability of threats. Accurate information is critical and it must be available in a timely manner. During a crisis makingRead More
Welcome to our world! Every day I get hundreds of threat alerts from situational awareness sources I monitor. They include earthquakes, floods, shootings, fires, power outages, protests… Some sort of threat event occurs every few seconds somewhere in the world. I analyze the threat data for trends and possible impacts toRead More
It is critical to prepare for a bomb threat. The Homeland Security Checklist, Guidance Brochure and Video information and links below are excellent! You can use it as-is or customize for your company. I leverage them for my programs and I wanted to share this important information with you. DHS-FEMA BombRead More
These are some of my favorite government resources. I use and recommend them on a regular basis. They have provided me with exceptional value. Most of them have newsletters and real-time feeds. Subscribe! A few are duplicated from the Hazards Central post but I thought it would be handy if you had themRead More
You can get a lot of mileage out of this In Case of Emergency (ICE) tip. I learned this tip while hosting a tabletop exercise years ago, one of the participants mentioned it and I have paid it forward during hundreds of tabletops, blog postings, newsletter alerts, dinner conversations withRead More
Welcome to our world! Every day I get hundreds of threat alerts from situational awareness sources I monitor. They include earthquakes, floods, shootings, fires, power outages, protests… Some sort of threat event occurs every few seconds somewhere in the world. I analyze the threat data for trends and possible impacts toRead More