About Disaster Planning

The DPCF is segmented into topics relevant to business continuity, SaaS and disaster planning.

One segment is titled 2006/2007 “Disaster Preparedness Communications Forum (DPCF) Column Links” and provides the titles and web links to previous columns.

Another segment, “Government Links” will connect you to Government and Government Recommended Sites”, provides advice and links to disaster and business planning sites plus other government resources including:

This segment also includes information on sites recommended as a resource by government agencies. For example, the Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response Association (DERA) http://www.disasters.org/dera/dera.htm , is a membership organization founded in 1962 as a nonprofit association linking professionals, volunteers and organizations active in all phases of disaster preparedness and emergency management. DERA is a worldwide association and membership information is available at http://www.disasters.org/dera/member.htm

A third segment “Resources Available for Educational Institutions” provides data on organizations with specialized advice educators and school administrators. Looking back at recent school tragedies, you may want to review the services of Omnilert, LLC (http://www.omnilert.com) which offers delivery of messages to mobile phones (SMS), email, web pages, RSS, and other communications services for schools, governments, corporations plus sports and special events.