Archive for the ‘blogs’ Category

Using summer to prepare for a possible H1N1 outbreak on campus

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

This article, from Inside Higher Ed, is a nice overview of how several colleges and universities are using the summer to better prepare for an outbreak of H1N1 on campus. Seeing this prompted me to investigate what our campus has done about H1N1, as Virginia is one of the handful of states with a recorded “widespread” outbreak.

This follows last month’s H1N1 Summit, hosted at the National Institutes of Health. I can’t seem to find an archived copy of the webcast, which was streamed live, but this blog post by J. Solomon (“In case of emergency, read blog…”) gives a great overview and links to video from several key speakers.

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Communicating in a Crisis

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

I read a lot of blogs in areas outside my own sphere of expertise – and marketing and communications is one field in which I often find interesting insights. I find PR and Communications blogger Kami Huyse consistently thought-provoking. Her Communications Overtones posting for today was the slideshow for a presentation she gave on “The 3 R’s of Crisis Management”: Research, Response, and Recovery. While the presentation was definitely aimed at a lay audience, I thought the focus on communicating during a crisis was a strength. Also, click on the “crisis management” tag under the post to see her other posts on this subject.

If you haven’t used SlideShare before, you will need to sign up for a free account. (I think of SlideShare as YouTube for Powerpoint presentations…)

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Keeping up with… the Homeland Security Digital Library Blog

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

The Naval Postgraduate School’s Dudley Knox Library maintains a fantastic database, the Homeland Security Digital Library. I’ll profile that resource in a separate post, but I wanted to showcase the blog the librarian’s write: “On the Homefront“. This is a great resource for keeping up with the latest reports, books, hearings, etc., in the fields of immigration, emergency preparedness and response, homeland security, public health and government actions relating to these fields. Hand-selected resources are described by the librarians, and linked, so it’s a one-stop shop. Check it out!

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