Disaster Planning and Recovery Toolkit: 3-Minute Evaluation

Have you checked out TechSoup's new Disaster Planning and Recovery Toolkit? We've updated and expanded our downloadable book, The Resilient Organization: A Guide for Disaster Planning and Recovery, and hosted two webinars on disaster planning.

If you've used any of these resources, it's time to let us know what you thought and how we could improve. Please take three minutes to respond to our very short survey. This is your chance to tell us what you think of the toolkit and what resources we should add to it.

As a part of the disaster campaign, we've been blogging about disaster planning and recovery over the past few weeks:

• Free Webinars: National Preparedness Month: Did you know that September is National Preparedness Month? Agility Recovery Solutions, a disaster recovery specialist, together with FEMA, is hosting a series of weekly webinars this month.
• Pangea Foundation's Disaster Relief Communications Hub: ReliefPoint is "a real-time communications hub for national disaster relief coordination and information dissemination." Pangea Foundation developed the tool in response to the October 2007 wildfires that destroyed land and homes in and around San Diego.
• Mobile Phones and Disaster Planning: Cell phones and "smartphones" are easily the greatest additions to accessible emergency preparedness and disaster response. Actively helping staff and volunteers to program their phones will directly and immediately increase their personal as well as your organization's preparedness.
• Freestore Foodbank: Standardized Practices and Disaster Planning: Learn how one organization's overhaul of its tech infrastructure made it ready when a disaster came.
• Back That Mac Up: Isn't Time Machine enough? Maybe not. Learn how to back up your Mac computers and recover them quickly in the case of hard drive damage or failure.

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