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Gone are the days when social media is only used to share what you had for dinner or announcing to the world that you are headed to the gym. But social media has become a platform for any and everyone to say what’s on their mind, and sometimes that’s great, but all too often it isn’t. Social is significantly lacking in decorum. But at least some are using social for good.

These days, law enforcement is using social media to find missing children.

Washington, DC police are leading the way on this.

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Harvard University

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A Message from Enrique R. Suarez to SMEs and to the Students of Entrepreneurship

The Technician, the Entrepreneur, and the Manager

In order to start and grow a business, a venture’s founder is req

Why do I say it’s good to be common? You aren’t common and you know it. Everyone of us is special.

I am a member of several tribes. There is my closest group of friends, we are a tribe from high school. My golfing buddies I do a trip with every year. My neighbours with whom a beer club was born. Plus my professional tribes ranging from technical specialties in engineering, strategy and risk to my tribe of “sole practitioners” that I hang out with every quarter.

The thread that is woven through ea

https://www.onspring.com/blog/7-vendor-management-tips-for-startups

To those of us consider Tom Cruise the movie star of our day or even Grunge as the music we grew up with, looking at millennials, and the way they view life, is fascinating. These “kids” or young adults, many are brilliant. They really do define “disruption”.

However, that doesn’t mean that this tech savvy generation is always right. In fact, a new study shows just the opposite when it comes to internet safety. Though, they can also teach us a few things and are definitely up to speed on the valu

For companies who care about their reputation, risk management is a must.  Said best by Warren Buffet, "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.” 

Building and preserving that reputation through proactive incident prevention must be a top priority. Post-scandal PR efforts, and other attempts to recoup losses, prevent only a fraction of the long-term damage. 

A company’s reputation can be quantified. Few would disagr

Expert Chuck Brooks Offers A Cybersecurity “Cheat Sheet” For The C-Suite

Chuck Brooks: VP of Government Relations and Marketing, Sutherland Global Solutions

The Internet was invented in a government laboratory and later commercialized in the private sector. The hardware, software, and networks were originally designed for open communication. Cybersecurity initially was not a major consideration. That mindset has surely changed

No one doubts your expertise. Staff know when they need to come to you. They know they won’t get their budget approved without engaging with finance, recruit without HR, get the final approval without compliance and on the list goes. The problem is their perception of what you do. Here is a list I would love to add to if you have a good one and time to reply:

Pigeonholed

It is natural for humans to pigeonhole things. We have a lot on our minds and the amount of information we need to process is in

The internet is a beautiful place. It is the way we communicate, the way we create, and the biggest business platform that has ever been generated. However, it is also a hazard, as anyone can put anything on it, and it’s extremely difficult to tell fact from fiction…especially if you are a kid.

A Stanford study looked at the ability, or inability in this case, of almost 8,000 students to tell fake news stories from real ones. The results, to be blunt, are terrible. When focusing on the students w

In June, 2015, it was revealed by an anonymous source that the Office of Personnel Management was hacked. This office, which administers civil service, is believed to have been the target of the Chinese government. This is one of the largest hacks in history involving a federal organization.

Slowly, the motivation behind the hacking is being understood. At first, it seemed obvious, the stolen data being personally identifiable information, which is what was taken can be used for new account fraud

So many lists of the Top 10 risks for 2017 floating around and we are already in March! Everyone seems to do the same study and get different results! No wonder we are not getting anywhere with Risk Management. Maybe we should now make a "master"​ list of the top risks from each study and then do another survey to see if that is a good list. Every organisation must have their own list of top risks... and DO something about it, lists means nothing, ACTION is everything. Those who are doing nothin

If you employ remote workers, your IT staff has a unique challenge keeping your organization safe. Fortunately, using a combination of best practices for cybersecurity, user awareness campaigns, and a strong policy will help to keep data safe.

New advances in mobile technology and networking have given remote workforces a boost, and while policies for most remote workers generally depend on manager or company preferences, most businesses must accommodate a mobile workforce on some level…and here’

What is Domestic Political Risk?

Political risk refers to conditions and events that affect organizations and result from governmental decisions. It can have major effects on the profitability/expected value of economic action. Political risks impact individual investors, public and private companies of all sizes, and governments.

Starting in 2016, political risk seemed closer to home after the United Kingdom (UK) voted to leave the European Union (EU), often referred to as Brexit, causing instant

Who Are the Champions in Horizon 2020?

Author: Nikolaos Floratos

This publication is a synopsis on which countries and organizations are the most successful ones in Horizon 2020 programme. We have analyzed 4190 H2020 projects and 7804 organizations that have been awarded an Horizon 2020 grant based on the data provided by the European Commission under Cordis on 24 June 2015.

Presentations and articles from EC officials and experts have been highlighting the low success rates in Horizon 2020 program

I have been working with an organisation recently helping them to build a tribe amongst a tribe. It has been a joy watching staff self-organise to fulfil a common goal whilst having some fun along the way.

What they are doing, however, isn’t easy. They are trying to influence a much larger tribe as a very small tribe of supporters for the risk function. Despite their relative seniority, their sphere of influence is significantly limited.

One part of the answer is for the team to shape their sphere

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/10/despite-trump-bharara-won-t-resign-yet.html

https://mic.com/articles/170913/elizabeth-warren-has-some-strong-words-for-donald-trump-over-preet-bharara-s-firing

Dear Friends,

Preet is one the best in the legal profession who successfully took on the "Too Big To Fail", "Too Big to Jail" corporate powerhouses. He has the competence and guts to prosecute those violating the law. He is admired globally. His cases were followed closely by those who underst

“Peeping Pigs” and Propaganda by Omission

By Edward Curtin

Global Research, March 05, 2017

Theme: Media Disinformation, Science and Medicine

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. - George Orwell   Animal Farm

While there is much talk these days about “fake news,” omitting important news is perhaps as widespread and egregiously harmful to an informed public.  The following report tries to reme

Osho: No Society Wants you to Become Wise

Source: Under the Blue Door

“No society wants you to become wise: it is against the investment of all societies. If people are wise they cannot be exploited. If they are intelligent they cannot be subjugated, they cannot be forced in a mechanical life, to live like robots. They will assert their individuality. They will have the fragrance of rebellion around them. They will like to live in freedom. Freedom comes with wisdom, intrinsically. They are insepar