news headlines: 27th January 2006

Some myths of crisis and issues communications
Chris Woodcock highlights the most common false assumptions that are made when it comes to crisis communications.
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•Date: 27th Jan 2006 • Region: UK/World • Type: Article •Topic: Crisis communications
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Crisis communications: get it right - the first time
John Glenn offers some thoughts on effective crisis communications.
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•Date: 27th Jan 2006 • Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: Crisis communications
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Bin Laden’s truce: is it out of the question to consider the offer?
Poll results
61 percent of Continuity Central readers who responded to last week’s poll believe that the US Government has done the correct thing by immediately rejecting Bin Laden’s truce offer.
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•Date: 27th Jan 2006• Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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World Economic Forum meeting examines ways to ‘harness business response to disaster’
How can the corporate world’s financial and emergency response resources be better managed and coordinated to maximize disaster response and recovery effectiveness?
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•Date: 27th Jan 2006• Region: World • Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Telstra Europe launches Cambridge data centre
New high-tech facility to provide hosting, business continuity and disaster recovery services to local businesses.
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•Date: 27th Jan 2006• Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Potential breakthrough in H5N1 vaccine development
New genetically engineered vaccine provides 100 percent protection against avian flu virus in study.
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•Date: 27th Jan 2006• Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: US Pandemic planning
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• German version of the BCI Good Practice Guidelines now available
• BT publishes business continuity management information
• 3n achieves rapid growth in 2005
• Companies will not act to pre-empt European corporate governance legislation
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• AT&T to conduct its largest-ever network disaster recovery exercise

• Surge in criminal-driven cyber attacks anticipated in 2006: IBM

• UK government launches Energy Review

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• Gil Jamieson appointed as FEMA Deputy Director for Gulf Coast Recovery

• Automata launches ‘Trainers’ Club’

• New 3Com product offers resilient enterprise IP communications

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• Buncefield investigation board established

• Fast-growing private US companies are voluntarily adopting Sarbanes-Oxley principles

• Business Continuity Institute publishes Voluntary Supplier Declaration forms

• European Commission proposes new flood protection directive

• e-mail data management challenges surveyed

• US Department of Agriculture conducting five food defense exercises through 2006

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• European banking industry attitudes towards IT continuity explored

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• Fire safety reform – UK government gives stakeholders more time to prepare

• American Red Cross and Operation HOPE sign disaster support agreement

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• Sudan 1 revisited

• IBM Australia buys Classic Blue

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• Enterprise content management storage explored

• Emerging threats 2006: drought

• ICM to issue Voluntary Risk Statement to clients

• BC Management's 5th Annual BC/DR Study underway

• HP researchers looking to turn virus protection methods upside down

• WHO issues update on Avian influenza in Turkey

• Seeing the big picture…

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• Damage forecasting service for UK and Western European winter storms launched

• 2006 London counter-terrorism advertising campaign launched

• Automata Technology Continuity and DR Masterclass 2006

• Terms of reference published for UK financial sector Cross-Market Business Continuity Group

• RMS analyses the impact of new TRIA structure

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• DHS provides $765 million funding for high threat urban areas

• WMF flaw could have far-reaching enterprise impact: Gartner

• CBI tells UK organisations to make business continuity a priority

• Despite 2005’s disasters, the vast majority of Americans still believe that ‘it won’t happen to them’

• BCI appoints Technical Services Director

• SNIA survey examines state of storage management

• Final draft of US National Preparedness Goal released

• Updated NFPA 1600 standard out for consultation

• Basel Committee publishes consultation paper on ‘high-level principles for business continuity’

• The five stages of pandemic response planning

• Comment: Business intelligence projects should not be offshored…

• Are we missing the point of pandemic planning?

• Warning issued about Al Qaeda plans to target American interests in China

• UK Civil Contingencies Secretariat publishes ‘Telecoms Resilience Assessment 2005-06’

• US Congressional Budget Office reports on the potential impacts of an influenza pandemic

• NFPA makes agreement with Canadian Standards Association

• Lessons Learned from the 2005 Hurricane Season

• Unitrends launches IT Rapid Recovery System for small and mid-sized businesses

• R.R. Donnelley acquires Critical Mail Continuity Services Limited

• UK financial system given high marks for resiliency

• UPDATED Business continuity lessons from Buncefield

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• Temple University survey explores public crisis communications

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