One of the things I liked about industry or government / industry committees i served on is that I could likely find some of my peers that were facing the same issues or opportunities as I was. That opened up the opportunity to share ideas or work on projects collectively to our mutual benefit. As I look back I can recall several situations where by working collectively with other industry responders we were able to make significant improvements in industry's collective emergency response…

Thank you to the over 20,000 unique visitors who viewed PTSC-Online throughout 2012. Your taking time to visit our on line community was most certainly appreciated and we hope to see you continuing to visit throughout 2013. Please take time to leave your challenges, comments and suggestions on your next visit as sharing and interacting with each other will add significant value to our community and the value we each get from it. 

Thank you again and Merry Christmas.

Bill

Your PTSC-Online…

Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs: Our viewers should be thankful for the support CAFC provided which enabled the creation of PTSC-Online. Without the support of their well established respected association, Public Safety Canada funding would not have been available to help us develop, promote and operate PTSC-Online. We are thankful for members of the fire service who have joined PTSC-Online and I appreciated the opportunity to speak with newly elected CAFC President Stephen Gamble to…

The first event was the was the Round Table on Disaster Risk Reduction which was held on October 23rd. This was a combination on site event and a virtual talk show which was supplemented with social media to make the message available to a broader audience. Speakers presented different suggestions for disaster risk reduction but one common thread across the presentations appeared to be a need to broaden the groups with which we collaborate, build bridges between the silos and I believe one…

I recently asked a couple of folks to look at PTSC-Online to provide me with suggestions to improve it. The first person was Michelle Schertzer a recent college graduate who started her own company Social Me which helps small businesses and non profit organizations use social media. The second was a recent PTSC-Online member Nils Fabian who came to Canada from Germany. Nils has an emergency management background combined with strong security and IT skills.  Each of these folks looked at…

If you have spent any time looking around Partnerships Toward Safer Communities - Online you will be aware that we have a NETWORKING section which highlights the different ways we work with other organizations with which we have a common interest. PTSC-Online was created to work with, not compete with, other emergency management and business continuity related organizations to improve our overall communication and help us cooperatively work together on common interests or issues. 

Over the…

First, let me say that if you have completed your PTSC-Online member profile, set your privacy settings so others can see your profile and contributed in any way to PTSC-Online by writing or commenting on an article, this message does not affect you.

PTSC-Online has paid for 300 memberships and with 283 we are getting close to our limit. We have two choices to meet our ongoing need to give memberships to folks who wish to join PTSC-Online. (1) We can pay for more memberships or (2) we can…

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Networking with other organizations to share technology and best practices is one way PTSC-Online can provide value to our members.  Please check out our Networking section to see some of the organizations with which we are working. One of those organizations is the Emergency 2.0 wiki from Australia which is operated by Eileen Culleton. The PTSC-Online networking section highlights the Emergency 2.0 wiki and displays their RSS feed.

The Emergency 2.0 wiki also has alliances with other…