… around the web

I read a great post from Chris Brogan this week, about doing a sweep through all your open browser tabs. I don’t know about you but I am really guilty of  this – I have so many browser tabs open, just waiting for me to come back and read/digest the material, or even just to comment.

So, in place of an RSS review, here is the stuff I have just sitting open and waiting;

• Does the web change everything?
  • No, but it can facilitate new opportunities.
  • We need to understand and be ready to leverage it – direct application, it is too late to think about how to use Social Media for Crisis Management when you are having the crisis.
• Washington Post – BP, Transocean, Haliburton blamed for Oil Spill
  • Errors rooted in systemic failures and could happen again
  • “a failure of management in which officials from all three firms ignored critical warning signs and failed to take precautions that might have delayed the completion of the well”
  • Notes a near-miss event on a Transocean rig in the North Sea, 23 Dec 2009 – if only they had documented and learned from this event.
  • The company said it was irrelevant to the Gulf of Mexico event – where have I heard that before?
• The Top 10 South African Business Continuity issues for 2011
  • Written by ContinuitySA, a major vendor in that market
  • Some apply generally, some a very specific to SA
  • Glad to see that some of my clients prepared and exercised for a few of these 18 months ago.
• Impacts of recent snow on UK business may be over-hyped
  • 47% of respondents say their business did not suffer at alll
• The Year in Risk
  • Interesting article reminding us of all the “will never happen to me” incidents of 2010
  • Not just the usual suspect;
    • Mc Donalds Shrek cup recall
    • Oprah’s ‘No Phone Zone’, and
    • the Asteroid near-miss
• Ernst & Young’s Climate Change and Sustainability Framework
  • So much more than accountants these days
  • Generally with the big firms you still just get a kid with a cookbook
• Marrying Prevention and Resiliency, Balancing approaches to an uncertain terrorist threat
  • Paper from RAND Homeland Security
  • Interesting thesis about how to deal with threat uncertainty – a core issue for resilience thinking
  • The concept of resiliency here is a rapid bounce back
  • Creating a portfolio of prevention and mitigation initiatives
  • Includes a chapter on how to evaluate such an approach

That is enough for one day, although there are still too many tabs open.

Happy reading, hope you find something interesting.