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Apologies for the recent absence. I've been engaged in many offline activities and have had to set aside the blog for a while. Back in the next couple of days!
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 Walter White Changes are afoot (or apaw) at Casa del Olmo Rojo. Many of you already know Chaco Canyon, who tweets as TheRealVOSTCat. Well, Chaco has a new sibling! His name at the shelter was Cranston, so we have named him Walter White, or Wally, for short. Wally was affectionate from the get go when we met him at Barkin' Boutique next to Jinja in Santa Fe. The ladies working there were extremely nice and seemed very happy for both parties in the adoption. as for Chaco...  Chaco Canyon (aka The Real VOST Cat He's had some sniffs of his new brother on us but it will be a few weeks before they meet. Wally is in his own office and we'll ease into things.
Consider, here, that 500 million people worldwide were killed in the Spanish Flu pandemic, nearly 100 years ago. Now pair that with the ease of travel we have in our age. To be certain, we’ve had scares with avian flu, Ebola, and Zika but none attained this magnitude. Are we capable of handling an outbreak with this kind of impact? Read more at Lawfare Blog, here: http://ht.ly/HDQy30bPWwe  It could have been worse than this, I suppose. It appears all that was accessed was e-mail addresses - a *lot* of e-mail addresses. That said, when a trusted system for legal documents gets breached, it is a really bad thing. I have gotten e-mails from DocuSign and another signing system and I called the purported sender to verify they had actually sent me something. If it looked anything like junk mail, I deleted it. As far as I'm concerned, anyone that would send me something to sign knows how to reach me. You might consider being as careful. In an update on its website, DocuSign reported an uptick in targeted spam campaigns abusing the company's branding. An investigation was launched, and it was determined that hackers had "gained temporary access to a separate, non-core system that allows us to communicate service-related announcements to users via email." Read more here: DocuSign Confirms Hack and the Stolen Data Could Put You at Risk
Did you know that there are 43 million choral singers in the US? That is the most people participating in any artistic endeavor. Some 175 choral singers gathered at United Church of Santa Fe today for Santa Fe Sings!, the second annual event organized by Santa Fe Desert Chorale. Even City of Santa Fe Mayor Javier Gonzales joined us as a tenor for the first half of the event, before heading out to give a commencement speech. JAMBO CAFE ran their food truck in the parking lot just for this event! What on earth do these choral posts have to do with communication and disasters? Well, choral singing is an activity that brings together diverse groups of people to unite in a common voice. It is a great example of teamwork. And, in this case, it was very much like spontaneous volunteerism. Some of us had sung together in other choirs and many met for the very first time. After just a few hours, however, we were able to learn four pieces for a mini concert. People coming together on the fly under great leadership can do amazing things. if you're interested in monitoring and evaluation, this webinar from DME for Peace should be interesting. Since it was first presented in an article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review in 2011, the collective impact approach has quickly gained adherents among governments, foundations, and other donors who see it as a coherent framework to achieve large-scale social change through multi-sectoral collaboration. In the years since collective impact was first introduced, practitioners have tested the approach in a variety of contexts, allowing for a more critical assessment of collective impact’s strengths and limitations. In this webinar, Michael will briefly review the evolution of collective impact, present lessons learned from evaluating a collective impact approach in a developing country context and share examples of additional collaborative models.
From ESRI: In a safe community, people, technology, and processes work together in a coordinated way. A safe community embraces a methodology that fosters collaboration to enhance safety, manage risk, and increase overall engagement throughout daily operations. During this webinar, you will gain a better understanding of how GIS integrates real-time data, providing a powerful system of insight. The webinar will be presented Thursday, April 20 | 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (PDT).
You can register at this link: http://go.esri.com/safecommunities042017 NEWS RELEASE
March 24, 2017 Contact: Allison Scott Majure, Communications Director New Mexico Environment Department 505.231.8800 | Allison.majure@state.nm.us Gold King Mine Spill Citizens’ Advisory Committee Meeting on Monday Committee Business, Farmers’ Market Dialogue & Annual Follow-up Items Santa Fe – New Mexico’s Gold King Mine Spill Citizens’ Advisory Committee (CAC), based out of San Juan County, New Mexico, meets Monday, March 27, 2016 at 5:30 p.m. in the San Juan College Student Center-SUNS Room (accessible through the Henderson Fine Arts Center). The Citizens’ Advisory Committee (CAC) is a group of 10 citizen volunteers from Northern New Mexico, including the Navajo Nation, who provide a forum for public concerns while tracking the scientific long-term monitoring of the Gold King Mine spill’s effects in the state. At Monday’s meeting the group will review the 2016 year’s activities, discuss before- and after-spill effects with a Farmers’ Market representative, and conduct Committee business. The CAC works with New Mexico’s Long-Term Impact Review Team, established by Governor Susana Martinez, to both monitor and discuss with the public the continuing effects of the August 2015 mine blowout, that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency admitted to causing which released over three million gallons of mining wastewater laden with more than a million pounds of metals into the Animas and San Juan River systems. For more information please visit the New Mexico Environment Department’s Gold King Mine website (www.NMEDRiverWaterSafety.org ) or email us at NMENV-Outreach@state.nm.us. # # # |
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