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The Lost Art of Delegation
December 15, 2010You’ve been the operations coordinator for about a year, and you feel like you can never seem to get through your weekly to-do list. One day during a gripe session with the director, you tell her this. She says, “Why don’t you delegate the scheduling to Joe.” Seeing an uncomfortable look come across your face, she asks, “You aren’t afraid to delegate, are you?”
Read full articleLeading Public Safety Associations Announce Open Nominations for 9-1-1 Honor Awards
December 15, 2010Washington, D.C .– The E9-1-1 Institute, NENA, APCO International, NASNA and 9-1-1 Industry Alliance announced the opening of nominations for the 2011 9-1-1 Honor Awards, which bestows the awards each year to honor heroes and leaders in 9-1-1. The 2011 awards ceremony will take place at the 9-1-1 Honors Gala on Tuesday, March 29, 2011.
Read full articleLas Cruces Suffers 3-hour Internet & Phone Outage
December 15, 2010Las Cruces, N.M. — Though it could have been dangerous, calm prevailed over calamity as Las Cruces was affected Tuesday by a major communications failure. Two Qwest Communications fiber-optic cables were severed at a construction site 19 miles south of Socorro, N.M., about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, and at another construction site near Tijeras, just north of Albuquerque. The cuts shut down telephone, Internet and most other communications services for thousands of New Mexicans for more than three hours Tuesday.
Read full articleScrambled Signals on Emergency System
December 14, 2010San Francisco — In the years following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration began providing funds to upgrade local emergency communications systems around the country. But agencies in the Bay Area are not on the same wavelength when it comes to signing up for this program.
Read full articleTait to provide 61-Site Trunked Radio Solution to U.S Utility
December 13, 2010December 6, 2010, Houston: Tait Radio Communications, global leader in providing radio solutions for utilities, will install and service a…
Read full articleGeoComm Participates in NENA’s ICE3 Event
December 13, 2010St. Cloud, Minn.: GeoComm participated in NENA ICE3, held in Bryan, Texas, the week of Nov. 29, 2010. The focus…
Read full articlePublic Safety Alliance Denounces 4G Coalition’s Effort to Rebrand Itself as Public Safety
December 13, 2010December 13, 2010, Alexandria, Va.: The Public Safety Alliance (PSA) reiterates the overwhelming and diverse national public safety organizational support…
Read full articleVirtual ID Links Patients, Rescuers
December 13, 2010Gold Cross, the the 9-1-1 emergency responder for Salt Lake City and Uintah County, is introducing a virtual medical identification card that allows individuals and families to provide information through a secure online web service in case of an emergency.
Read full articleDispatchers Want 9-1-1 Calls Exempt from Open Records Law
December 10, 2010Nashville, Tenn. — The state’s emergency dispatchers said Tuesday they want to exempt 9-1-1 audiotapes from Tennessee’s open records law to save distraught crime victims and their families from hearing their calls played in the media.
Read full articlePSAPs in an Internet Age
December 9, 2010As a comm center manager or director, have you considered what impact the use of the Internet has on your personnel and center? What’s its value, if any? On Dec. 8, APCO Institute Adjunct Instructor Mark Boudreaux addressed these issues and their policy considerations during an APCO Institute webinar.
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