Informational Update For August 15, 2012

Wednesday, September 5, 2012 - 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

Keep pace with the escalating demands being placed upon BC and RM professionals. Join us for a “Power Hour” review of risk management principles, challenges, and opportunities, and come away with a comprehensive perspective on big picture trends, current practices, and tangible tools for utilizing them:

• BC/RM convergence - The lines between BC and RM are merging into a single practice area. Understand how to set-up your program strategy to expand your organization’s focus from “BC Planner” to “Strategic Risk Manager.”

• Industry status - See what’s happening now, and how it affects you and your organization.

• Applying RM standards, best practices and frameworks - Harness the power of established standards into your program.

Learn how to stay ahead of the curve, by bridging the gap between concept and practice with a strategy that satisfies the needs of multiple business and regulatory constituents. Reserve your time for “Preparing for the Convergence of BC and RM” today.

Presented by Frank Perlmutter, co-founder of Strategic BCP® and ResilienceONE® BCM software, and a nationally recognized speaker who draws upon more than 15 years of BCM experience, including his role as Manager of Disaster Recovery/Continuity of Operations Planning for the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

A CPS Energy Case Study: Emergency Communication from a Utility Perspective - Striving to Meet Increasing Customer Expectations

Free Webinar On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

During this webinar, Anita Bateman from CPS Energy will discuss how CPS Energy, the nation's largest municipally owned energy utility, is leveraging Send Word Now's alerting capabilities in innovative ways to communicate with customers and employees. After an initial implementation in 2011, the CPS Energy team is moving forward to the next phase, implementing employee alerts and beginning the process of implementing Spanish language alerts and customer-specific power outage alerts. Anita will also discuss their most recent customer alert test and lessons learned. CPS Energy is the nation's largest municipally owned energy utility, providing both electric and natural gas service in San Antonio, Texas. CPS Energy serves over 717,000 electric and 325,000 gas customers in and around the 7th largest city in the nation and over a 1,514 square mile service area.

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The Business Case for Business Continuity Management Software

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BC Management, Inc's 11th Annual BC Management Compensation & Program Study

"Assessing Business Continuity World-Wide"

BCM COMPENSATION RESEARCH REPORTS - Study participants who complete the BCM Compensation section will receive multiple BCM Compensation Reports. Previous BCM Compensation Reports included USA, Canada, Asia Pacific and Europe. BC Management will publish individual BCM Compensation Reports for any country logging 50+ complete study participants.

CALL FOR PAPERS 2013

Submit CFP For Spring World 2013 Today! Deadline: 9/24/12

Disaster Recovery Journal, host and sponsor Spring World 2013 invites you to nominate a speaker and/or topic for our conference.

BC TRAINING

New BCI Licensed Level 1 Course

The BCI Level 1 Course is a foundation course based on the Business Continuity Institute's "Good Practice Guidelines".