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What Are the Important Papers and Memories You Want to Protect?

Disaster Zone blog

This is a disaster preparedness question for everyone — are you willing to give up sex?

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What is ESG?

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria are useful in measuring a company’s progress toward achieving social goals in addition to creating shareholder value.

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Ukraine: Tanks, Tanks and More Tanks

Disaster Zone blog

Really, it is not that big a deal in actual numbers.

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Ransomware victims stand up to attackers

GCN

The drop in payments is encouraging, but a lack of transparency around ransomware reporting makes it hard to say why organizations refuse to pay, researchers say.

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The Ultimate Playground Inspection Handbook

Dive into the world of playground safety with this complimentary guide. It offers a detailed exploration of essential practices to ensure the utmost safety for children. Delve into inspection techniques, from assessing equipment conditions to evaluating surfacing materials. Gain insights into maintenance strategies to keep playgrounds in top-notch condition year-round.

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How Soft Skills Can Help You Land Your Next Job

GovLoop

If you’re looking for an edge to help you get a new job, consider this: What’s the most significant problem you’ve solved in the workplace? And this: How do you explain new topics to coworkers unfamiliar with them? Or this: Describe a situation where results went against expectations. How did you adapt to this challenge? Those are examples of questions that employers might use to deeper an understanding of a job candidate’s fit for a job, according to a blog pos t at Inde

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AMILI helps advance precision medicine by building microbiome library on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

This is a guest post by Jeremy Lim, chief executive officer (CEO) of AMILI; Vivek Ravindran, chief technology officer (CTO) of AMILI; Raghunathan Shanmugam, engineering lead at AMILI; with Edwin Sandanaraj, genomics solutions architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS). One hundred trillion tiny organisms called microbes live in the gastrointestinal system within our body.

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How AI helps one city spot damaged rooftops

GCN

The Baltimore Department of Housing and Community Department is using a mix of artificial intelligence, GIS-based flyover imagery and building code enforcement data to automatically detect at-risk buildings.

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National Association of Counties and Election Security

Disaster Zone blog

Cybersecurity and election security go hand-in-hand.

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Better health among Middle Eastern employees can start with awareness

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

A survey of workers in four Middle Eastern countries provides a baseline for understanding the state of employee health and informing strategies to improve outcomes.

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Paid Partnership for the Win! How a Library System Turned a Holiday Tradition Into an Opportunity To Reach New Library Marketing Goals

Super Library Marketing

Photo courtesy Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library Trenton Smiley ’s job in a library is what you might call a full-circle moment. At the age of 21, Trenton went to the library with his future wife to research careers. While inside the library, he decided to study communications in college. Years later, he is working in communications for a library, specifically as Director of Marketing and Communications for Capital Area District Libraries (CADL).

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7 Signs Your Local Government ERP Is Holding You Back: A Guide for Small Municipalities

Local governments and municipalities serving populations under 200,000 face distinctive challenges in delivering efficient and effective services to their communities. To overcome these challenges, many rely on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems tailored to their specific needs. Not all ERP systems are created equal, and some may hinder progress rather than support it.

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Why the economics of electrification make this decarbonization transition different

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

The economics of decarbonizing fleets are demonstrably viable. Now commercial transport operators need to identify the best way to capture value.

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What Business Wants from Emergency Management

Disaster Zone blog

It starts with having a relationship.

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Managing nonprofit members and donors with CiviCRM on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Managing donors, members, and constituents is essential to the success of most nonprofits. Customer relationship management (CRM) systems are an important part of this process. There are several CRM applications that focus on the needs of nonprofit organizations. While many of these applications are commercial offerings, others are available at no cost.

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February top 5 for under 5

Princeton Public Library

We invite you to check out this month’s PPL Youth Services recommendations for activities, resources and new books in the library collection for children up to five years old and […]

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Sustainable Facility Maintenance Management for Small Local Governments

Unlock the potential of sustainable facility management! This guide empowers small local governments to lead with climate-resilient infrastructure, energy efficiency, waste reduction, and more. Elevate your community's resilience, reduce costs, and embrace eco-friendly practices. Discover the role of facility maintenance teams in green cleaning, sustainability analyses, and infrastructure upgrades.

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Vermont Chapter Councilor Report – ALA LibLearnX 2023

Librarian.net

All documents for this meeting can be found here. [link] Attendee report: 2653 attendees at LLX, 1711 are reg members (i.e. not vendors, corporate members, free attendees) Friday January 27 ALA Bylaws Convention, Special Council Session 1-5pm This meeting was specifically set up in order to finalize work on revising the ALA Bylaws. There were 12 articles that did not have amendments suggested and we zipped through them.

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Local Government Retail Food Inspection Strategy: Health Tech & Workflows 2023 | GovPilot

GovPilot

When it comes to local health inspections, ensuring that retail food establishments meet local, state, and Federal quality standards is vital to protecting your citizens’ health. Yet, for many local health departments, retail food inspections are inefficient and performed infrequently, allowing for health code violations to slip through the cracks.

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What else can data centres be doing to be more sustainable?

Open Access Government - Technology News

How can data centres become more sustainable in an age when our digital lives demand increasing volumes of energy ? The internet is only becoming more prevalent in powering how we live and work – with wired and wireless digital connectivity a fundamental component of our work and social lives. It has to live somewhere, usually in data centres, and energy is needed to keep it running so we can continue to access apps, stream videos, stay in touch, work and shop.

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4 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2023

The City Fix

What will 2023 hold for the environment and development? The end of 2022 certainly left us in an interesting — and concerning — place. The world’s three-year-old pandemic proved it was far from over, sickening millions and affecting economies. Global.

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ASPA TIMES Magazine: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

PA TIMES Magazine is a publication of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), a not-for-profit corporation. This edition focused on diversity, equity and inclusion in public administration, including guest columns, insights for the field and interviews with city government DEI officers about their work at the local level.

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NIST debuts long-anticipated AI risk management framework

GCN

With the launch of the AI RMF 1.0, federal researchers focused on four core functions to structure how all organizations evaluate and introduce more trustworthy AI systems.

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CFP: Academic Libraries Creating Global Community: Operating Outside of Traditional Roles and Spaces

A Library Writer's Blog

The Humboldt Journal of Social Relations Editorial Team is seeking article proposals for a special issue related to libraries. See below for the details. Contact press@humboldt.edu if you have any questions! Academic Libraries Creating Global Community: Operating Outside of Traditional Roles and Spaces To support our students and faculty as global citizens, academic libraries are increasingly engaging with broader community efforts to affect positive change.

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Buffalo, N.Y., Does Not Have an Emergency Management Office

Disaster Zone blog

The city has a population of more than 277,000.

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Personnel Turmoil in the Top Job

Disaster Zone blog

This time it is Wyoming and IT.

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Proactive vs Reactive Maintenance: Making the Case for Preparedness

Discover comprehensive strategies for optimizing operations and achieving cost efficiency! This document offers insights into efficient inspections, data-driven decision-making, goal alignment, and resource optimization. It empowers local governments and maintenance departments to streamline operations and ensure significant cost savings. From aligning maintenance goals with community needs to leveraging data for strategic planning, this guide provides a roadmap for smoother, more reliable opera