Complete EM Podcast

Borrowing plans, slide presentations, pictures and illustrations is something that emergency managers do. In this podcast, an experienced intellectual property attorney chats with us about what is protected, how protection occurs, how to avoid legal troubles and how to manage intellectual property with integrity.

Many emergency managers have at least one "war story" to share about donations management. Its not easy and its nearly impossible to do well without pre-planning.  Richard has worked large-scale, high profile logistics missions for decades as a U.S Army Officer and state-level emergency operations manager.  He joined us to explain what works and what doesn't in donations management. 

For over 17 years, Greg has helped some of the biggest and fastest moving companies in the U.S. engage their customers with information technology. He's a mobile and tablet experience strategist who often speaks at conferences and is now working on his fifth book. In this podcast, Greg discusses what works and doesn't work in software user interface design, and where he thinks IT is going... at least in the near-term.  Emergency managers thinking about web, mobile app and other software design should listen-in.    

Interested in obtaining an emergency managemement degree? Jessica Jensen shared her view as a leader in the development of emergency management as an academic domain, the work that lies ahead and the value of emergency management education programs. She also talked about some great opportunites to collect, synthesize and conduct new research.

Dr. Hamza Alshargabi is a surgeon who's treated casualties in Syria and Yemen. Despite sometimes being in the middle of serious conflict, he enjoys what he calls the "clinical" work of helping a person in crisis. He's also driven to help people and communities in crisis, so he devotes much of his time to the emergency management profession. During our interview, Hamza describes emergency management in the Middle East, the underlying and sometimes conflicting social setting there, and the opportunities he sees to improve the profession.

Dana Carey is an emergency manager operating under a city, county, special district and Native American Nation agreement to mitigate, prepare, respond and recover - together. She describes the agreement, the outcomes they accomplish and the important values inherent in the partnership.  

We recently caught-up with Ellis Stanley, a tremendous contributor to emergency management over the past 30 years. He shared with us how the profession has changed since the 1970s and reinforced what has always been required of a successful emergency manager.

Public/Private Partnership - the phrase is wonderfully alliterative, gets used a lot, and makes good sense to implement, but the capability still hasn't found its way into many emergency management programs. Join us as was speak with Jim Turner, Executive Director of the California Resiliency Alliance, to hear what's working, what's not, and how to fix it.

Running a successful social media program for public safety requires a lot of thought, trust, discipline and, frankly, humility. Liz Evangelatos is a local government employee who knows this and spends part of her time running a program for her jurisdiction. In this podcast, Liz shares how to set-up an efficient and exceptionally effective social media program, even with limited resources.

The 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake provided a devastating reminder of California's propensity for shaking, the vulnerability of buildings and infrastructure, and how much we rely on community preparedness. One of the great successes of Loma Prieta recovery is a new model for community preparedness - a network of non-profit organizations working together to promote life skills that include disaster preparedness. Ana-Marie Jones leads one, if not the first, organization to employ this new, successful model.