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Thanks to CaliforniaVolunteers, I have 10 disaster kits to give away for a new contest. CaliforniaVolunteers is the office that oversees that State’s volunteering initiatives including its family preparedness program, WE Prepare.
To win a kit, send in one of the following: an emergency preparedness tip, something your have done to prepare for a disaster, or a suggestion to [...]

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Below are the results of the blog’s latest book contest  for Disaster Communications In A Changing Media World (Butterworth-Heinemann) by George D. Haddow and Kim S. Haddow. Entrants were asked to write “what you think is the most useful new communications application for citizens to use for disaster preparation/response.“ The winners (and their entries) are:
Giovanni Taylor-Peace/Atlanta, Georgia – “My vote is for YouTube [...]

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For the next book contest, I am offering two copies of Disaster Communications In A Changing World  by George D. Haddow and Kim S. Haddow. (Thanks to the publisher, Butterworth-Heinemann). I think the book will be of interest to many readers of this blog. It focuses on what I believe is the most interesting new development in [...]

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Below are the winners (along with their “What is your one favorite thing about New York City?” entry) for the Securing The City: Inside America’s Best Counterterrorism Force – The NYPD (Simon & Schuster) book contest. Each will each receive a free copy of the book.
Andrew A. Altizer/Atlanta, GA — “Late Night with David Letterman”
Stephen Carter/Manuka, Australia – “My [...]

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I have five copies of Christopher Dickey’s terrific new book, Securing The City: Inside America’s Best Counterterror Force – The NYPD, to give away. 
Contest Rules:
Securing The City provides a behind-the-scenes look at the anti-terrorism efforts of the New York Police Department which is considered the most effective urban anti-terror operation in the nation.
So, in order [...]

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For the blog’s next Book Contest, we are giving away Christopher Dickey’s terrific new Securing The City: Inside America’s Best Counterterror Force — The NYPD. Thanks to Dickey and his publisher, Simon & Schuster. 
Contest Rules: “Securing The City” provides a great behind-the-scenes look at the anti-terrorism efforts of the New York Police Department which is considered [...]

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The five winners of “The Survivors Club” book contest are: Melanie Diehl/Susquehanna, PA; Roy E. Hadley, Jr./Atlanta, GA; Harry Burger/Huntington Station, NY; Martin Jones/Surprise, AZ and Steve Peterson/Germantown, MD. 
A free copy of “The Survivors Club” will be sent to each of them. If you would like to purchase the book, click here. We’ll have another book contest on Monday.

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I may have been a bit too ambitious and asked a little too much for “The Survivors Club” book contest last month. It turns out that I have not received any entries thus far. I had requested that readers send in “your brief story or tip on how you ’survived’ or coped with an emergency [...]

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I wrote earlier this month about a terrific new book, The Survivors Club: The Secrets & Science That Could Save Your Life. The book examines the questions of human survival in crises — Who survives and who doesn’t? Who bounces back and who collapses? Who keeps fighting and who surrenders? Through well-reported true stories, first-hand experiences, and [...]

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Videos posted by citizens on YouTube during and after disasters are increasingly part of the new media landscape (whether it be Hurricane Ike, Hurricane Gustav, the Midwest floods, or the major earthquake in China earlier this year). However, there is not nearly as much video content on the topic of preparing for disasters in advance. Maybe that will change [...]

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