Book Review — Management and Information Technology in Disasters
Disaster Zone blog
AUGUST 17, 2023
A review of a new book on information management for disasters.
Implementing a unified search platform for educational content on Amazon OpenSearch Service
AWS Public Sector Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Amazon OpenSearch Service is a managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale OpenSearch clusters in the AWS Cloud. With digital learning becoming increasingly popular, managing a vast amount of educational data can be challenging.
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New Book: Disaster Management and Information Technology
Disaster Zone blog
APRIL 6, 2023
Professional Response and Recovery Management in the Age of Disasters
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Book Talking To Promote Your Collection: Five Shrewd Ways To Entice People To Check Out More Books
Super Library Marketing
JULY 31, 2023
An ARC is a version of a book that is made available before the official publication date. The panelists then talked about the various ARCs during the session, naming them by title and author and discussing the most intriguing things about each book. It’s because the panelists were book-talking. Books are your brand.
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New AWS legacy transformation solution guide to identify, manage, and reduce legacy technology risk
AWS Public Sector Blog
MARCH 19, 2024
Citizens expect public sector digital services to be as good as the online services they use every day to book travel, shop, or insure their cars. This comprehensive solution guide will enable public sector organizations to reduce the risks and costs of managing legacy systems while lowering their IT carbon footprint by moving to the cloud.
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Legal Issues for Volunteers Responding to Disasters
Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
She is the co-author of three public health emergency law bench books for health departments in the District of Columbia, Louisiana and Pennsylvania. Emergency Management for Dynamic Populations (DyPop): Hot Mess Express: An emergency management leadership course focusing on response tactics during terrorist attacks.
The Challenge of Performance Management in Community Development
Community and Economic Development Program of UNC
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
In a forthcoming book, I define performance management as a continuous and cyclical process of making data-informed decisions to improve organizational outcomes. Over the last few decades, these systems have become ubiquitous in almost every aspect of local government management.
Grow or exit? Overcoming the scale trap in life insurance closed books
McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights
OCTOBER 20, 2022
M&A deals with closed-book players can help insurers continue to create value. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated challenges for insurers in continental Europe.
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How the Wharton School built a virtual TA chat assistant with generative AI on AWS
AWS Public Sector Blog
DECEMBER 3, 2024
As an expert in behavioral data analysis of customer shopping and purchase activities, professor Fader has extensive data analysis experience and develops course material based on his many published books. This helps avoid copyright concerns when training the large language models (LLMs) at the core of the virtual TA.
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Use Amazon SageMaker to perform data analytics in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Public Sector Blog
JUNE 3, 2024
Introduction Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed machine learning (ML) service that provides various capabilities, including Jupyter Notebook instances. As an example, Figure 2 displays the first five results of an AWS Data Catalog table that’s populated with book titles and authors. Snippet of code described in this blog.
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Author Talks: What does it mean to be a good middle manager?
McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights
JUNE 1, 2023
Three McKinsey partners discuss the untapped value in middle managers that most companies leave on the table.
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Management from the Road: National Novel Writing Month
ASPA National Weblog
OCTOBER 27, 2016
These strategies also apply to managing a challenging organization. Sure, you could jump right in and begin writing the book. As a manager, the same thought applies. Management lessons can be found in the most interesting places. For example: Set audacious goals. In 30 days. Make a plan. Your team is your greatest asset.
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Three Options for Managing References in Grant Proposals and Other Documents
Peak Proposals
JUNE 1, 2023
The result of this uncertainty is that the decision of how to manage references is not made until after the proposal is well underway, and the references are scattered across several locations. What Is a Reference Manager? A reference manager is a software program that allows you to organize and format your references.
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How One Library Marketer Advocated for (and Got) an Additional Promotional Staff Member
Super Library Marketing
MARCH 3, 2025
So, she decided to use a graphing technique she had learned from business books. Much of the work that was overwhelming me had to do with maintaining the website and managing email communications. I got various quotes for full-scale website management from other companies. Read the business books!”
BriBooks improves children’s creative writing with generative AI, powered by AWS
AWS Public Sector Blog
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Introducing BriBoo BriBooks is the world’s leading children’s creative writing platform, enabling kids to learn, write, and publish their books online. This helps the model provide focused recommendations based on an author’s age group, genre of book, and style of writing on their platform.
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AWS Nonprofit Credit Program expands support for nonprofits of all sizes
AWS Public Sector Blog
APRIL 4, 2023
“Our hope is that the additional AWS Promotional Credit support will empower nonprofits to actively explore and pursue opportunities for cloud experimentation and innovation,” explains Allyson Fryhoff, managing director of AWS Nonprofit and Nonprofit Health. How can the AWS Nonprofit Credit Program benefit your organization?
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Germany’s International University of Applied Sciences automates creation of educational videos using generative AI, serverless on AWS
AWS Public Sector Blog
MAY 15, 2024
As part of this experience, IU offers their students targeted learning videos summarizing different course content based on information captured in course books. The solution uses LLMs to generate summaries and extract additional textual information (such as bullet points) from course books.
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Beyond the books: Teens check out mental health resources at libraries
GCN
APRIL 10, 2024
In Hartford, Kentucky, the public library invites teens to weekly sessions to foster positive thinking amid a growing youth mental health crisis.
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Smart Island: How the AWS Cloud is powering social, economic, and environmental improvements in Greece
AWS Public Sector Blog
OCTOBER 5, 2022
In tandem, existing infrastructure such as the local marina, the energy grid, and water management systems will be upgraded through internet of things (IoT) solutions and smart infrastructure management systems. Many islands are at the beginning of their digital transformation journey.
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15 startups selected for the inaugural AWS Education Accelerator
AWS Public Sector Blog
JANUARY 9, 2024
OneRange New York, NY OneRange is helping companies to automate the management of individualized learning budgets. Its platform enables discovery and access to the right resources for each individual by leveraging data across all formats of learning, including courses, books, conferences, and more.
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The revolutionary role of book scanners in modern libraries: The power of knowledge digitized
Open Access Government - Technology News
MARCH 4, 2024
Learn about the revolutionary role of book scanners in modern libraries, or in other words, the power of knowledge digitized from ScannX, Inc. Fluorescent lights cast a dull glow onto stacks of books. She excitedly goes to the library’s user-friendly book scanner and swiftly scans and saves the essential passages.
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How to Get Stuff Done Without Losing Your Mind: My Top 6 Time Management Tips for the Busy Library Marketer
Super Library Marketing
OCTOBER 10, 2022
And you are often doing this promotional work while doing other things like answering reference questions, shelving books, filling holds, and cleaning the bathroom. Time management is hard. Time management helps you achieve bigger goals, reduces procrastination, and increases productivity. It’s exhausting. More Advice.
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CreatorUp harnesses AWS AI tools to scale digital content development
AWS Public Sector Blog
JULY 1, 2024
Crucially, AWS also offered Amazon Bedrock , the company’s generative AI managed service, which allowed CreatorUp to use high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies—along with access to AWS generative AI experts who could assist in optimizing Daisy. Human assistance is also one of the perks of working with AWS.
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Call for Reviewers: Reader’s Round-up Against the Grain (Book and Database Reviewers)
A Library Writer's Blog
JANUARY 3, 2024
CFP URL: [link] The Reader’s Round-up Column is seeking additional reviewers to assess books and databases that fit one of two basic areas. The first area (formerly Monographic Musings) is for works that cover librarianship, publishing and information management.
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Seizing new opportunities to lead change amid turmoil and uncertainty in the public sector
Partnership for Public Service
APRIL 8, 2025
For example: Automate repetitive tasks with tools like Power Automate or Asana Create templates to stop recreating the wheel and to focus your effort only on the unique portions of your work Write checklists to improve accuracy and efficiency Atul Gawandes The Checklist Manifesto is the single best book on improving workplace efficiency.
THE B&G Reading List
Barrett & Greene
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
A couple of weeks ago, we made a request in the B&G Report for recommendations of books that would provide worthy reading for people who are interested in state and local government. It’s important to note that we decided not to include books that were suggested by their own authors. Following are eight titles.
When the career ladder breaks for women—and how to succeed anyway
McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights
MARCH 27, 2025
A new book reveals hidden challenges that hold professional women backand details how some manage to rise in the ranks regardless.
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Author Talks: How educators can avoid burnout and embrace self-care
McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights
JULY 21, 2023
In a new book, educator Jamie Sears helps teachers navigate the classroom, manage relationships with parents, and define what success is. It’s arguably never been tougher to be a teacher.
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From Waste to Energy: How Urban Waste is Powering Our Cities
Reprogramming the City
APRIL 1, 2023
Recent advancements in waste to energy (WtE) technologies have offered a promising solution for repurposing waste into energy, providing a sustainable and efficient means of managing waste while also generating valuable energy. However, this can be managed through proper waste management and disposal practices. Rated 5.00
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Manage Like a Mother
Park Leaders
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Valerie Cockerell joins for a conversation on the similarities between the challenges of managing a park to the struggles of parenting. Throughout our conversation, she emphasizes the valuable skills mothers acquire through managing a household, such as time management, conflict resolution, and crisis management.
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How one nonprofit commemorates enduring sibling relationships with AWS
AWS Public Sector Blog
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
It functions as an online memory book for surviving siblings. Finally, Amazon Relational Database Service ( Amazon RDS ) supports a managed configuration for historical and user-entered data. SibsForever.org is a progressive web application that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The SibsForever web application architecture on AWS.
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An Up and Down Experience: How One Library Used a Challenge To Educate Their Community About the Freedom To Read
Super Library Marketing
JANUARY 15, 2024
He and his coworker manage all the digital and print promotion for the library, which serves a population of 67,000 residents with four locations. A few months ago, Patrick and the team at Willoughby-Eastlake launched a Banned Book Challenge. Nowadays, Patrick works on a marketing team of two at Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library.
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Job search advice for former federal employees, with Larry Slesinger
Partnership for Public Service
MARCH 17, 2025
If you havent looked for a job often in recent years, consider consulting resources, such as Larry Slesingers book, Search: Winning Strategies to Get Your Next Job in the Nonprofit World. Often, employees look for a combination of leadership, management and strong interpersonal skills. One way to overcome this is to seek referrals.
Plans Vs. Play Books
Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast
JUNE 7, 2022
Planning is one of the major tasks that all emergency managers undertake. In this podcast we hear from Brad Milliken who’s day-job is serving as an Emergency Management Specialist at the White House Operations Center. Planning is one of the major tasks that all emergency managers undertake.
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Confronting new risk management guidelines for credit spread risk in banking
McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
In both the European Union and globally, the new supervisory expectations for credit spread risk in the banking book pose a clear challenge for bank treasury and risk functions.
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Personal and Organizational Risk Management
Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast
MAY 18, 2021
Her most recent book is You Are What You Risk: The New Art and Science of Navigating an Uncertain World This podcast interviews her about her expertise and questions are centered on topics of interest to individuals and emergency managers when it comes to disasters.
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Ensure Your Digital Library Marketing Passes Accessibility Tests: Expert’s Urgent Advice
Super Library Marketing
APRIL 14, 2025
When I got the chicken pox and was out of school for days, my mother asked the childrens librarian for books I would like. I loved every book!” Sadly, a lot of popular content management systems dont do this or only provide some accessibility features. The librarian sent her home with a huge stack.
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Optimizing the US mortgage market with AWS
AWS Public Sector Blog
MARCH 13, 2024
Leveraging the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) , CSS manages $6.4 The decision to develop and host the CSP in the AWS Cloud put CSS among the first enterprises to adopt the cloud and build and manage one of the first mission-critical cloud-native applications.
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How to prevent ideas from getting lost in translation
GCN
MARCH 18, 2024
A new book aims to help experts communicate more clearly, so their ideas can have real-world impacts. Policy researchers and government administrators often seem like they’re speaking different languages.
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Demystifying AI: How RAG boosts efficiency in state and local government departments
AWS Public Sector Blog
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
Bridging the knowledge gap with LLMs Imagine if every government employee had an assistant who had read every book, document, and memo in the world. These AI technologies promise to refine how governments manage data, interact with citizens, and execute their responsibilities.
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Re-imagining the future of mobility on islands
AWS Public Sector Blog
OCTOBER 5, 2023
The concept of mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) includes connecting the different phases of the door-to-door mobility experience, from planning through to booking, payment, navigation, and customer service, with seamless integration across different modes of transport. This technology is moving from theory to practice.
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The 10 R's of Crisis Management
Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Crisis management and crisis communications have become a critical skill, and not just for emergency managers. He has more than 30 years experience as a crisis management expert, public relations consultant, journalist, and press secretary for members of Congress and political candidates.
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CFP: Call for Professional Service Stories (Librarian Promotion)
A Library Writer's Blog
APRIL 1, 2025
Call for Professional Service Stories We are excited to announce a forthcoming book titled "Service Work for Tenure and Promotion: A Manual for Librarians and Administrators" and we need your help to bring it to life! Stories about success, fails, funny anecdotes, etc.
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8 Ideas for Old Subway Cars: Proposals to Repurpose Retired BART Trains
Reprogramming the City
MARCH 22, 2022
” “These cars are iconic to the Bay Area and to the people that not only live in the Bay Area now, but grew up riding these BART cars,” said BART Manager of Special Projects Brian Tsukamoto. If you like repurposing projects, you’ll LOVE the Reprogramming the City books. We’d like to see them given a new life. Add to cart.
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