This Saturday, February 6, Depiction staff (including yours truly) will be at FrostFest 2010 in Richmond, Virginia. We're looking forward to meeting some Depiction users, and hopefully creating many more! If you're going to be there, drop by and say 'hi'--we're on a corner table across from

We just joined up at AllHands.net, a community for everyone involved in emergency planning & response. If that's you, you should join up, too, and connect with us.

Red Cross chapters around the country are finding Depiction to be a valuable tool in planning for and responding to emergenies. We are excited to be supporting the great work of the Red Cross, and as part of our activies as a National Preparedness Month coalition member, we are offering a free webinar specifically for Red Cross staff and volunteers.

Today is the beginning of National Preparedness Month, and Depiction is proud to be a member of the National Preparedness Month coalition. We have some very cool things coming down the pipeline in the coming weeks, but for the moment, I wanted to take a moment and go over the three basic steps for preparedness, as described at Ready.gov--along with some thoughts on how Depiction might be useful.

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September is National Preparedness Month, and Depiction is proud to be a member of the National Preparedness Month coalition. Depiction is being used by businesses, governments, emergency planners and more to prepare for and respond to disasters, and so we are excited about this opportunity to continue helping people become ready. Watch this space for news about the very cool things we have planned for National Preparedness Month.

Three stories this week popped out at me in the Disaster Resource Continuity e-GUIDE weekly email:

First, a company in Newark, CA (Risk Management System) has come up with a new earthquake simulation that is radically changing damage estimates for California and other prone areas (including the northwest). LA Bizjournal covered the story. This could affect insurance rates.

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I am posted in the Stanwood EOC running Depiction for the group. We are providing situation awareness by displaying the area inundated by the current flood and the locacations of Red Cross shelters.We are also monitoring the NOAA flood sensors so better planning can take place. Stay tuned, more to follow...