Go Exchange Business Cards Today

Following up from the presentation, let me repeat once again that the time to get to know your emergency services folks at the city or county level is when you get home from CoSIDA. As they say in the FEMA training, the time to exchange business cards isn't at the live incident.

Thanks again for Daucy Crizer and Charles Bloom joining the panel to give the SID perspective to Lou Marciani's comments. While we talked about hurricanes, tornadoes and bombs in backpacks, the ICS training applies to any large event. Our campus and city was devestated by an ice storm this winter that almost cancelled a game, closed the University for several days and had power out for almost a week.

This was a presentation for every division -- it doesn't matter if you were Division III or BCS -- these large scale, long duration crisis can happen anywhere, anytime.

Knowing the terminology before the event is the key to the training. Being conversant with the jargon -- PIO, ICS, JIC/JIS -- gives you an advantage.

Lou is working on a letter that will help serve as an invitation to make sure the sports information/publicity contacts are in the loop for the seminars his group is conducting across the country. For links to the National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security, also the direct link to the workshop schedule.

If you want the actual presentation as PDF, jump to my official bio at ArkansasRazorbacks.com and go to the BOTTOM of the bio for the PDFs.