IEEE Professional Communication Society Newsletter • ISSN 1539-3593 • Volume 53, Number 1 • February 2009

Disaster Recovery Planning

by Ray Floyd

A company's ability to recover from a disaster depends on one simple thing — planning. The more complete the recovery plan, the better the company's ability to survive the disaster, regardless of the cause of the catastrophe.

In the process of developing the recovery plan, every section of the business has to become part of the team, understanding what is needed for their part of the business to resume business as usual as quickly as possible. In most cases, quickly as possible is meant to be understood as the first 30 to 90 days after the disaster...Read more.

  • AdCom News

    AdCom Meeting in Indiana

    The next AdCom meeting is scheduled for 6-7 March 2009 in Terra Haute, Indiana at Rose-Hulman University. The agenda includes discussions about the budget, a proposal for a new journal, revisions to the constitution and bylaws, and much more.....Read more

  • Project Management

    When Passion Meets Recession

    Think of the recession for just a moment as a person, let's say Mr. Recession, and that person is someone who has been visiting your house for too long, and you want Mr. Recession to leave and go back to where he came from. In a typical household, how might we get Mr. Recession to leave? ....Read more.

  • Member News

    Eleanor McElwee & Henrich Lantsberg Die

    We are very saddened to hear of the deaths of two long-time IEEE-PCS members.

    Nominate someone for the Goldsmith award...Read more.

  • IEEE 125th Anniversary

    Celebrations Planned

    Today's global IEEE celebrates 125 years of Engineering the Future in 2009. From its earliest origins, rooted in the founding of the AIEE (American Institute of Electrical Engineers) and the IRE (Institute of Radio Engineers), the IEEE has worked to... Read More.

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