Is 'Run Hide Fight' Still the Answer to Mass Shooter Events?
Disaster Zone blog
JANUARY 31, 2023
Some think events have proven other courses of action are perhaps needed.
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Vehicular Awesomeness Event
Summer Camp Programming
JANUARY 16, 2023
If you’re looking for a unique event that your campers and staff will always remember, this is it. It’s a great event for a day. The post Vehicular Awesomeness Event appeared first on Summer Camp Programming. or overnight camp.
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SCP 170: Fall Event Ideas
Summer Camp Programming
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
The post SCP 170: Fall Event Ideas appeared first on Summer Camp Programming. Check out this week’s episode where the guys give you tons of great ideas you can easily do! From hayrides to Paint and Sips to Family Camps, listen in for some falltastic stuff! HOSTS CURT […].
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Would you trust AI to predict your future life events?
Open Access Government - Technology News
DECEMBER 20, 2023
The research project, outlined in the recent Nature Computational Science article titled ‘Using Sequences of Life-events to Predict Human Lives,’ introduces a cutting-edge model named life2vec. The post Would you trust AI to predict your future life events? AI prediction: What is Life2vec?
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Holiday Safety Tips for Municipal Operations
Advertiser: Noratek
From ensuring safe snow removal and managing icy sidewalks to organizing festive events and addressing increased community needs, municipalities play a critical role in keeping residents safe and operations running smoothly. The holiday season brings joy and celebration, but it also introduces unique challenges for municipal operations.
SCP 192: 8 Special Events You Should be Offering at Camp
Summer Camp Programming
OCTOBER 23, 2023
SHOW NOTES The guys each give 4 camp-wide event ideas you should be offering at your camp. Links: How to Run […] The post SCP 192: 8 Special Events You Should be Offering at Camp first appeared on Summer Camp Programming. They give a very wide variety from Table-Top Escape Games, to Top Shot Activities, to Art Shows.
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ED Games Expo 2023: Featuring a Livestreamed Science Is Cool (ScIC) Event on September 21
Homeroom
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
In addition to its many in-person events at the Kennedy Continue Reading The post ED Games Expo 2023: Featuring a Livestreamed Science Is Cool (ScIC) Event on September 21 appeared first on ED.gov Blog. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, and across government.
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3 reasons to adopt a critical event management plan in 2023
Open Access Government - Technology News
JANUARY 27, 2023
What are the top 3 trends that will trigger organizations to adopt a critical event management plan in 2023? million last year, proving the need for businesses to have effective defenses, including a tried-and-tested critical event management (CEM) plan, in place. Time is our worst enemy when a critical event unfolds.
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Microsoft Modern Work, Security, and Surface Evangelist to Speak at Upcoming Cloud Security Event
Microsoft Public Sector
AUGUST 31, 2023
Microsoft M odern Work, Security, Surface, AI Evangelist Slated to Speak at Upcoming Cloud Security and Compliance Event The Cloud Security and Compliance Series (CS2) , Summit 7's bi-annual conference series, is excited to announce Rodel Alejo , Director, Partner GTM Strategy Modern Work, Security, Surface and SMB Leader, as a CS2 speaker.
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Response and resilience in operational-risk events
McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights
MARCH 30, 2023
Direct losses from operational-risk failures are mounting, and in today’s volatile economic environment, consequent losses in share price are many times greater.
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DoDIIS 2023: IT Community Looks to Leverage New Technologies for Major Events
FedTech Magazine
DECEMBER 8, 2023
This year’s theme — Chaos to Clarity: Leveraging Emerging Technologies — highlights the ways these agencies have used technology to respond to unexpected, world-changing events. “We DoDIIS, sponsored by the Defense Intelligence Agency, takes place in Portland, Ore., You’ve got to be able to understand the base…
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Library’s Spectacular Success: A Day-Long Cardholder Event Draws Crowds in Record Numbers – Unveiling the Secrets Behind the Triumph!
Super Library Marketing
JANUARY 29, 2024
They also do a good chunk of the library’s event programming, managing all adult events that use outside presenters. Sound familiar to anyone?!) Last year, Mike was given the task of coordinating cross-departmental, library-wide events. The most successful of those events was a Card Crawl. renovation,” remembers Mike.
Wild West Auction
Summer Camp Programming
JANUARY 17, 2023
Here’s an event you can add to your Wild West theme. Start by having your campers gather gold. They can dig for it at a creek, find nuggets lying around camp, or search for hidden nuggets in particular areas. You could even have them earn gold during the week. Once everyone has had an opportunity […].
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Changing Narratives and Engaging Communities Toward Better Policy: New York City’s Low-Density Neighborhoods Event Recap
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
JUNE 14, 2023
Watch the full event below: NYU Furman Center State of the City 2022 from Furman Center on Vimeo. For example, the homeownership rate for white households who reside in lowest-density community districts is 68 percent. The homeownership rate is far lower for Hispanic of any race households at around 30 percent.
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Quest for the Holy Grail
Summer Camp Programming
JANUARY 12, 2023
Here’s a competition/event campers will really enjoy. It’s called Quest for the Holy Grail. This is a perfect activity for a Medieval week. PREP WORK Find a really ugly vase or an old looking cup. Take a picture of it. Hide it somewhere at camp. It could be buried, locked away, or hidden in plain […].
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re:Invent 2024: Your public sector playbook for AWS’s biggest event
AWS Public Sector Blog
OCTOBER 24, 2024
This flagship AWS event unites global visionaries to explore the latest technologies redefining what’s possible for their missions. Download the AWS Events app to either favorite or register for the sessions you’re interested in. After the event, breakout sessions will be available to stream; closed captioning is available as well.
How A Nonprofit Reunites Separated Families At The U.S.-Mexico Border
Next City
JUNE 14, 2023
At the annual Hugs Not Walls event, it's a logistical challenge to clear the way for families to reunite in the river while border patrol officers promise not to intervene.
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Concerts for Carers uses AWS Fargate, Amazon Aurora to deliver ticketing and events platform at any scale
AWS Public Sector Blog
AUGUST 21, 2024
Charitable organizations see spikes in activity as they respond to disasters, host seasonal events, and perform outreach to their donor base during fundraising appeals. As well as serving API requests, the platform uses Amazon ECS tasks for performing background processes such as informing users that they have won tickets to a given event.
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Mark Twain Days
Summer Camp Programming
JANUARY 9, 2023
If you’re looking for a special event or theme that brings activities back to a simpler time, Mark Twain Days may be just the thing. Below are some activity suggestions. FIND THE PIE During the week, campers are told to look for a pie (made from paper mache and painted) like the ones Aunt Polly […].
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All-Star Alumni Country Club
Summer Camp Programming
JANUARY 5, 2023
” During this event alumni will be guest instructors. The day before the event bring campers together to watch short videos submitted by the […]. Does your camp have an alumni program? Put out a call to talented and enthusiastic alumni to participate in an “All-Star Alumni Country Club.”
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Leadership and Perception
Careers in Government
MAY 24, 2024
How you perceive things, events, people, and interactions is an ongoing activity, second by second, minute by minute, day by day. The post Leadership and Perception appeared first on Careers in Government.
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How to Celebrate National Park Week
GovLoop
APRIL 16, 2024
Take a look at the National Park Service’s main site for National Park Week events , kicking off with waived entrance fees on Saturday, April 20. The nine-day lineup includes days for volunteering, getting to know parks staff, events for kids, and more.
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When they search for new staffers, cities and counties should cast a wide net and recruit globally
American City & Country
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
Show your agency’s colors and attend college events, job-fairs, trade shows and other industry events. She urges local government officials to either attend or create career events at venues where diverse populations gather. These tools include: Run advertising on well-trafficked business sites, such as LinkedIn and Indeed.
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Using Amazon Timestream and Amazon Location Service to detect transportation route deviations and anomalies
AWS Public Sector Blog
AUGUST 26, 2024
Route or geofence ingestion and processing –The event driven architecture triggers a Lambda function that curates a shape and trip text file from a GTFS repository once it arrives in an Amazon S3 bucket. Exit event CloudWatch log. After processing is done, it loads the processed route into a geofence collection in Amazon Location.
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CISA, OMB, ONCD and Microsoft collaborate on new logging playbook for Federal agencies
Microsoft Public Sector
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
To assist in this, Microsoft and CISA will also be providing the Microsoft Expanded Cloud Log Implementation Playbook which will provide an in-depth look at each of the new log events and how they can be used to support hunting and incident response operations at your organization.
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How State and Local IT Agencies Can Best Prepare for Natural Disasters
State Tech Magazine
JUNE 15, 2023
with the cost of 18 weather events totaling more than $175 billion. The report indicates that natural disasters are becoming more prevalent, expensive and diverse, with a mix of floods, winter storms, wildfires and other predictable and unpredictable events wreaking havoc.
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SCP 204: Magazine Style #11
Summer Camp Programming
APRIL 19, 2024
This episode includes a special event idea, program idea, staff idea, new AI tool, some trivia questions, theme ideas, and more. SHOW NOTES In this episode, Curt and Chris discuss a wide variety of topics for summer camps. This is their 11th magazine edition.
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SCP 197: Magazine Style #10
Summer Camp Programming
JANUARY 18, 2024
This episode includes a special event idea, program idea, staff idea, new AI tool, some trivia questions, theme ideas, and more. SHOW NOTES In this episode, Curt and Chris discuss a wide variety of topics for summer camps. This is their 10th magazine edition.
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How to avoid and recover from cyber and ransomware attacks
Open Access Government - Technology News
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Stay current on cyber events disrupting different geographies, industries, and groups, and stay informed on the attacks most likely to impact your operation. With any security event, there’s a before, a during, and an after. Armed with that information, the attackers can plot a course to force a ransom payment.
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Florida city water cyber incident allegedly caused by employee error
GCN
MARCH 21, 2023
Al Braithwaite, the former city manager of Oldsmar, Florida, said the 2021 episode was not caused by outside hackers but was instead a “non-event” sparked by user error.
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Microsoft Federal Developer Summit: Building AI Solutions
Microsoft Public Sector
OCTOBER 23, 2024
This exclusive in-person event is designed to transform the way AI developers build, deploy, and manage intelligent applications in the cloud era. Please note that there is no virtual option for this event. Join us in Reston, VA on November 13 th and 14 th for the Microsoft Federal Developer Summit - Building AI Solutions!
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Massachusetts Helps Municipalities Strengthen Their Cybersecurity Posture
State Tech Magazine
JULY 2, 2024
State and federal nonprofit agencies often speak about their cybersecurity programs at the event, and municipal leaders can pose questions. “This was a way of getting people together to share business cards and ideas — almost crowdsourcing across the state — so the first time an incident happens, you already know people,” he says.
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Using Digital Tools to Prioritize Funding and Make Infrastructure More Resilient
NLC (National League of Cities)
OCTOBER 3, 2024
Authored byStephen Bourne, Project Director at AtkinsRéalis and Adam Howell, Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives at AtkinsRéalis Large weather events such as tornadoes, hurricanes and wildfires have always kept cities’ leaders up at night.
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In an era of divisiness, some politicians are trying to change the tone
GCN
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
At an event last week hosted by the National Governors Association, Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Sonia Sotomayor spoke about how they have learned to disagree agreeably.
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5 Opportunities for Micro-Greening in Low-Income Urban Settlements
The City Fix
APRIL 25, 2024
Climate-change-induced events such as heat waves and floods severely impact quality of life in urban areas. It can be financially disruptive and even fatal, disproportionately impacting settlements most vulnerable to climate risks. Greening of open spaces can be an important.
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SIEM vs. SOAR vs. XDR: Strengthening Cybersecurity
State Tech Magazine
JUNE 14, 2023
Agencies looking for solutions to support their security operations centers will likely come across three proven tactics that can help governments stay secure and protect citizen data: Security information and event management (SIEM) Security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) Extended detection and response (XDR) Each of these centralized (..)
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Federal Agencies Struggle on Cybersecurity Logging Benchmarks
FedTech Magazine
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Unfortunately, 17 agencies were listed as Event Logging 0 in the GAO report — meaning “logging requirements of highest criticality are either… Twenty of 23 agencies failed to meet cybersecurity incident response requirements laid out in Executive Order 14028, specifically in their investigation and remediation capabilities.
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U.S. Government officials, allies, and private sector leaders discuss responsible AI innovation
AWS Public Sector Blog
JULY 23, 2024
Attendees watch and listen as Dave Levy, right, speaks during his fireside chat at the event, “An Allied Approach in the Age of AI.” On June 27, 2024, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the Atlantic Council Geotech Center co-hosted an event, “An Allied Approach in the Age of AI,” during the annual AWS Summit Washington, DC.
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Disaster response and risk management using PNNL’s Aether framework on AWS
AWS Public Sector Blog
APRIL 15, 2024
Characterizing disaster risk and developing strategies for resilience and response to natural event hazards is core to the mission of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). The science of event simulation and emergency response is based broadly on physics and earth science for climate simulations.
The VA Plays ‘Catch-Up’ on Machine Learning Integration
FedTech Magazine
JANUARY 18, 2023
Speaking Tuesday at the AFCEA Bethesda 15th Annual Health IT Event, Michael Parrish said the VA’s supply chain modernization effort is focused on using technologies like machine learning (ML) to ensure order management has full enterprise visibility.
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Amid rising costs, states scramble to budget for natural disasters
GCN
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
State budgets are increasingly shouldering the costs of more frequent and expensive weather events. set a new record for billion-dollar climate disasters in 2023.
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Three ideas about presentation of African American History in the context of Black History Month | reprint with an addition about the US Civil Rights Trail (versus the Dixieland Trail)
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
How about a month long "Doors Open" event during Black History Month. The Toronto Star even publishes an event guide. It's not exactly the same, but Georgetown Glow, an outdoor sculpture walk in December and January is growing into a great event. In North America, Doors Open Toronto is probably the biggest.
Ways to Celebrate Employee Appreciation Day
GovLoop
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Plan thoughtful recognition events. Even if you’re not hosting an event or recognizing people individually on this day, perhaps take a look at OPM’s Awards Ceremony Suggestions for future use. It doesn’t have to be big, but it should be thoughtful and inclusive.
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Local Governments Modernize Their Networks to Support Free Public Wi-Fi
State Tech Magazine
JULY 31, 2024
When the annual Spokane County Interstate Fair comes around this September, most of those who attend the 10-day event will first have to purchase a ticket at the gate. What won’t they need to buy once they’re cleared to go inside? Access to the fair’s public Wi-Fi network, which is free to anyone who wants to use it.
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