Archive for August, 2009
Disaster Planning: Backup, Backup, Backup!
Date: 08/27/2009
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Pacific Time
Cost: FREE
Host: Techsoup
Presenters: Chris Shipley, Nutmeg Consulting; Zac Mutrux, Sarai; Ana-Marie Jones, Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters; Becky Wiegand, TechSoup Global
Description: At TechSoup, we believe that when it comes to maintaining continuity of your organization’s services, that backup is essential to following the Boy Scout’s golden rule to “be prepared.” Beyond major natural disasters, a variety of regional, local, and office-centered emergencies might compromise your ability to get work done and continue conducting business as usual for your supporters, clients, users, and community.
What happens if a water main breaks and floods your office? Or a nearby wildfire knocks out your phone and Internet access? What if a staff person simply loses a laptop with critical info? Maybe losing a day of work won’t hurt too much, but what if that extends to 3 days, two weeks, or months? Backup systems are essential to keeping your important data and critical services running. In this free TechSoup Talks! webinar, TechSoup’s Becky Wiegand will interview several nonprofit consultants about the different types of backup options including hardware, portable devices, and hosted services. This will be an introduction to backup systems for emergency planning and won’t cover in-depth evaluations of specific services or tools.
Pandemic Planning – How to Prepare Your Business for the Upcoming Flu Season
Date: 09/16/2009
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Time
Cost: FREE
Host: Agility Recovery Solutions
Presenter: Colonel William Lang (Ret.) M.D., Former Associate Chief Medical Officer, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Description: Join us to hear Dr. William Lang, former Director of the White House Medical Unit and Associate Chief Medical Officer of the Department of Homeland Security, discuss the current status of the ongoing H1N1 Influenza Pandemic with a special emphasis on how the current situation may impact businesses and other organizations.
Details: http://www.agilityrecovery.com
Disaster Preparedness for Your Family Foundation
Date: 09/10/2009
Time: 12:00 PM Eastern Time
Cost: FREE
Host: National Center for Family Philanthropy
Presenter: Tim McCarthy, McCarthy Family Foundation, and Kristen Putnam-Walkerly, consultant.
Description: Like many small family foundations, the McCarthy Family Foundation operated out a family member’s home. Tim’s house was destroyed, along with many of the foundation’s records, in last year’s San Diego fires. Learn how to prepare so you can keep operating if disaster strikes.
Corporate Preparedness for H1N1: How pressure-tested planners are bracing now for fall
Date: 08/25/2009
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Eastern Time
Cost: $265.50
Host: CIDRAP Business Source
Presenters: Michael T. Osterholm, CIDRAP Business Source; Barbara Snell, Target Corporation; Michael Janko, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
Description: With barely a break in the action, pandemic planners once again are facing a rising tide of preparedness pressures. The race to fortify your organization is on, and a new slew of scientific findings, government guidance, and conflicting news reports is mounting fast. Human resource professionals, on the pandemic front line in spring, will be among the most seasoned players that companies can rely on to face an unprecedented influenza threat this fall.
Priming your organization has never been more critical and benchmarking with successful peers never more essential. CIDRAP Business Source is bringing together expert planners from two Fortune 500 companies and a world-renowned authority in pandemic influenza to inform your efforts and answer your questions.
Join us as this expert panel combines years of expertise to equip you with the definitive “need-to-know” information in a live, interactive Webinar. Your participation will provide you with access to current, authoritative information and immediate real-world action steps, including results of live polling for benchmarking purposes and an opportunity to pose questions directly to the experts.
Business Preparedness – Simple Steps to Ensure Continuity
Date: 09/02/2009
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Time
Cost: FREE
Host: Agility Recovery Solutions
Presenter: Rebecca Marquis, Acting Director of Ready Campaign, Federal Emergency Management Agency
Description: Join us to hear Ms. Rebecca Marquis, the Acting Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Ready Campaign. This national campaign is designed to educate and empower Americans to prepare for and respond to emergencies including natural disasters and potential terrorist attacks. Ms. Marquis will share insight on how to Ready your Business. Learn how you can prepare with valuable information on building a recovery plan and developing a recovery kit.
Details: http://www.agilityrecovery.com
The Swine Flu: Be Prepared, Protect Your Company and Family
Date: 09/15/2009
Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern Time
Cost: FREE
Host: Insite Security
Description: As flu season approaches, global medical experts are predicting the rapid spread of the global pandemic H1N1 or Swine Flu. Insite Security and WorldClinic have teamed up to provide corporations and high net worth individuals with the information they need to protect their business and themselves from this potential pandemic.
Details: http://www.insitesecurity.com/
National Preparedness Month 2009
Date: Archived
Cost: FREE
Host: Ready.gov
Description: We officially kicked off NPM 2009 with a webinar on April 15, 2009 containing an overview of this year’s goals and the resources that are available to NPM 2009 Coalition Members.
Healthcare Strategies for Today’s Mobile Society: Update on Antivirals & Vaccines
Date: 08/25/2009
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Time
Cost: FREE
Host: Firestorm Solutions LLC
Presenters: Jim Satterfield, Firestorm Solutions LLC; Donald A. Donahue, NSHPC; Fran Lessans, Passport Health USA
Description: Do you travel? Do your colleagues travel? Whether you travel within the US or internationally, for business or pleasure, yourplans may be affected as the H1N1 pandemic increases in strength and/or scope. Travel restrictions, quarantines and school closings: these are some of the potential preventative measures that will be taken as the fall flu season arrives.
Details: http://www.predictplanperform.com/
