Blogging for week 9

Building on the last blogging assignment about business continuity, start work on creating a fact sheet about steps a company could take to ensure business continuity during a "super flu" crisis. This fact sheet will ultimately be part of your media kit, and it will help explain steps that your company or your county have taken to be ready for such a crisis.

You may select a perspective, from these two: from the perspective of a business for which you are currently working; or from the perspective of a county health office, working with local businesses. Visit www.cdc.gov, click on a link at the top right of the homepage which leads to information about avian flu, and then click on a tab for "business." Read about strategies for business continuity.

For a fact sheet from perspective one (business), you might want to list things such as:

* A master list of employees has been created, with contact information for each employee, with emergency contact information, and with designations for which employees are considered "essential employees" in a crisis.

For a fact sheet from perspective two (county), you might want to list things such as:

* A list of local companies providing essential services such as pharmacy delivery services, nursing assistance, and home care for the elderly has been compiled and uploaded to the county's web site for easy reference.

Don't sweat this too much, but just get started thinking and blogging on this issue, so that when we start creating these pieces for your media kit, we'll have a faster start. Come ready to share on Monday, Oct. 30.