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		<title>A Mix of Characters: PEMC 2011 in Kingston</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For much of this week, I was in Kingston for the Provincial Emergency Management Conference. This is an annual conference organized by Red Cross Canada, bringing together municipal, provincial, and federal delegates from the field of emergency management. We had folks from Fire, Police, EM offices, provincial ministries, and even a few municipal administrators. While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Is Worthless for Emergency Management Unless You Bring Your Brain with You</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just because lots of people are saying the same thing doesn’t make it right. That’s the problem with the open &#38; democratic realm of Twitter. I’m not advocating an elitist rule-by-experts world, but Twitter to me demonstrates how ludicrous things can get when you have lots of people with just a little bit of knowledge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Demand Faster Emergency Communication from Your Government</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We live in an age of rapid, nearly-instant communication. Emergencies depend on the rapid exchange of information between those who are on-scene and those who can support them, between those who have information to protect others and the public who needs that information to keep safe and help themselves. Internet technologies are among the fastest, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hand Sanitizer Doesn&#8217;t Expire, So Why Do They Have Expiration Dates?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emergency Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the H1N1 pandemic at the end of 2009, the Province of Ontario was distributing kits of supplies to healthcare professionals in the field. Many of the kits being distributed contained hand sanitizer that was, technically, expired. We received calls from doctors&#8217; offices and medical institutions about the expired hand sanitizer asking us if it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Logistics Makes for Successful Emergency Response Team Deployment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emergency Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BCP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business continuity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My academic instruction and my own continued readings reinforce the premise that logistics will make or break an emergency response effort. My experience and what I hear from other deployed teams strengthens my belief in the absolute importance of logistical considerations. The debrief session from one of our emergency response teams&#8217; deployment for the G8 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Verify the Veracity of Advice You Receive by Email &#8211; Even When It Comes from Trusted Sources</title>
		<link>http://www.leonardchu.com/blog/index.php/2010/verify-the-veracity-of-advice-you-receive-by-email-even-when-it-comes-from-trusted-sources/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=verify-the-veracity-of-advice-you-receive-by-email-even-when-it-comes-from-trusted-sources</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emergency Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bad information flows around anywhere, even within networks of emergency management professionals. Just yesterday, there was an article credited to Doug Coup flying around the email system. It came to me from an individual in my branch, who got it from someone at another branch with a lot of emergency response experience, who got it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Operational Details Matter: Things to Pay Attention to In an Emergency Operations Centre</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emergency Management]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[business continuity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say that the devil is in the details. They also say that God is in the details. Whichever one is true, the main gist is correct: you&#8217;ve got to pay attention to the details if you want your emergency operations centre (EOC) to operate smoothly and effectively. You need to pay attention to details [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Only Ridiculous Until You Experience The Real Deal: BCP &amp; Emergency Management Exercises</title>
		<link>http://www.leonardchu.com/blog/index.php/2010/its-only-ridiculous-until-you-experience-the-real-deal-bcp-emergency-management-exercises/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=its-only-ridiculous-until-you-experience-the-real-deal-bcp-emergency-management-exercises</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emergency Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Designing and undertaking exercises are critical to the development and validation of business continuity plans and emergency management plans. They are also critical to the training &#38; familiarization that your organization&#8217;s people will need in order to respond as effectively as possible when the time comes. Yet, exercises often aren&#8217;t taken seriously by management or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will People Heed Warnings When the Next Pandemic Comes?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emergency Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had it easy with the H1N1 flu pandemic that hit us in 2009 to early-2010. It wasn’t the killer virus that experts had been telling everyone to plan for and to expect. It wasn’t a replay of 1918. The real danger now is that the boy cried wolf, and people may not heed the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using SMS in an Emergency is No Guarantee of Establishing Successful Communication</title>
		<link>http://www.leonardchu.com/blog/index.php/2010/using-sms-in-an-emergency-is-no-guarantee-of-establishing-successful-communication/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=using-sms-in-an-emergency-is-no-guarantee-of-establishing-successful-communication</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emergency Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some agencies are advising the public to use text messaging (SMS) in a large-scale emergency. The rationale is that the voice lines will be overloaded, but the little data packets for text messaging will get through. Conceptually this sounds nice. In fact, I used to advise this in the past, too. But based on my understanding [...]]]></description>
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