Emergency Management Utilities CERT: Training and Recruitment December 20, 2022 by Addison Shaw Regardless of what happens after January 1st, we figured it was time to focus on CERT again, get a bit more in-depth, and provide information some towns can use to improve their community-based response networks. Read more »
Emergency Management Utilities How to Make a Personal Emergency Preparedness Kit September 8, 2022 by Mark Demski One of the ways we can lessen the effect of disasters is by being prepared. Disasters cut access to our critical and daily necessities, so securing them during these times is a top priority. But there's a lot there—what do you need to prioritize? How do you make a personal emergency preparedness kit? Read more »
Business Continuity Healthcare Utilities Veoci News Updates Raising the Bar for Healthcare Continuity March 31, 2022 by Camryn Gaudett Over these past couple of years, healthcare emergency management and business continuity (BC) plans have been rigorously tested. As a whole, there seems to be an acknowledgment that the response and coordination activities that are involved in day-to-day operations are strong. There is, however, an area that has been found lacking that must be bolstered: formalized business continuity and resilience. Read more »
Utilities Veoci News Updates Lessons in Developer and Designer Collaboration January 20, 2022 by Veoci Staff Team Contribution At the end of 2021, Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts hosted Nevaan Perera, Veoci Software Engineer, as a guest lecturer in an undergraduate class entitled Interaction Design 1: Responsive Interfaces. Nevaan's presentation took the class through the different roles of developers and designers and how they work together to create the best possible software features and functionality. Read more »
Emergency Management Utilities USC’s Great Shakeout: Conducting A Successful Campus-Wide Earthquake Drill December 16, 2021 by Camryn Gaudett The University of Southern California (USC) is a long-time participant of the Great ShakeOut. This year, however, USC decided to execute their exercise differently, completely running the drill from start to finish utilizing their new emergency management software: Veoci. Read more »
Operations Management Utilities Guilford Drives Cost Savings and Efficiencies With Automation and Innovation July 29, 2021 by Veoci Staff Team Contribution The Town of Guilford, CT, discovered a way to dramatically improve the handling of daily operations and tedious administrative duties while maintaining effective communication and collaboration across multiple divisions. Read more »
Emergency Management Healthcare Utilities Planning for All Hazards: How Texas SB1614 May Reframe Resilience for Long Term Care July 1, 2021 by Lance Lynch Very few organizations need to be ‘told' that they need to revisit and streamline their emergency management and business continuity plans any longer; laws reinforce the idea, and new Texas legislation puts the idea of resilience under a new light. Read more »
Emergency Management Utilities Earthquake Awareness Month: Preparing for the “Big One” February 9, 2021 by Addison Shaw Despite how prone an agency, municipality, or community is to earthquakes, it's possible to prepare. Many states and areas across the US dedicate February to earthquake awareness, hoping to prepare their residents and stakeholders for these events. Read more »
Pandemic Utilities What the CARES Act Means for Various American Industries June 11, 2020 by Veoci Staff Team Contribution Numerous industries will see direct aid as a result of the CARES Act, but what that aid looks like differs. This blog will take a look at how the CARES Act helps healthcare, governments, higher education, and airports. Read more »
Pandemic Utilities How Will COVID-19 Impact Hurricanes and Disasters? May 14, 2020 by Addison Shaw The pandemic will add another layer of complexity to the responses of teams across the Caribbean and the Southeastern US. What are some of the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic and other disasters mixing, and what can people do to prepare for natural disasters that occur during this pandemic? Read more »
