This asynchronous (not live) event will take place here, in TechSoup’s Tech Planning Forum May 9-11. Topics will be discussed via forums posts and will not include a vocal component.
If you are interested in participating in our Disaster Planning and Recovery online event, please just jump in and join the discussion – no registration is required. Each event topic will be discussed in a separate message-board thread.
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JOIN US AT OUR UPCOMING ONLINE EVENT
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How your nonprofit organization can plan and prepare for a disaster, before it is too late
May 9–11, TechSoup's Community forums at http://www.techsoup.org/go/disasterplanning
FREE online event -- No registration required
Is IT the only thing you should consider when preparing for a disaster? How should you budget for disasters and planning?
Join us as we discuss these and other questions at TechSoup's three-day Disaster Planning and Recovery online event. At this event, you will learn how to create a disaster-preparedness plan and what you can do to recover from a disaster.
Topics will include:
• Safety issues in disaster preparedness.
• Reducing the risk of a disaster.
• Disaster planning and IT.
• Offline measures you can take to prevent a data disaster.
• Assumptions you can make when devising your plan.
• Budgeting for disasters and disaster planning.
• Disaster recovery.
Event details:
This asynchronous (not live) event will take place in TechSoup's Tech Planning Forum on May 9 to 11. Topics will be discussed via forums posts and will not include a vocal or live-chat component.
If you are interested in participating in our Disaster Planning and Recovery event, please jump in and join the discussion — no registration is required. Each event topic will be discussed in a separate message-board thread; look for the subject-line headers that say “EVENT POST."
Hosted and moderated by:
Don Cameron is a board member of the Sahana Project, an NPO and humanitarian-aid organization dedicated to the development and support of the Sahana Open Source Disaster Management System (http://www.sahana.lk), which won the 2006 Free Software Foundation's Award for Social Benefit.
Kevin Lo is an analyst with TechSoup's Healthy and Secure Computing (HSC) (www.techsoup.org/toolkits/hsc) program, with provides baseline infrastructure guidelines and recommendations for small- and medium-sized nonprofits.