Disaster And Emergency Management Information A Mouse Click Away

AllSector buys XBRM to offer new services within its Case Management Tools Suite. AllSector Technology Group® Inc., a technology based managed services provider and software application developer, announced that it has purchased Extreme Behavioral Risk Management LLC (XBRM), a crisis management consulting practice for an undisclosed sum effective July 1, 2008.

New York, NY (PRWEB) September 29, 2008 -- AllSector Technology Group® Inc., a technology based managed services provider and software application developer, announced that it has purchased Extreme Behavioral Risk Management LLC (XBRM), a crisis management consulting practice for an undisclosed sum effective July 1, 2008.

XBRM helps prepare an organization's decision-makers and first responders by providing them with education, training and resources to accurately address emotional and behavioral responses across all phases of emergency management. Working with its client organizations, XBRM integrates critical human factors into emergency and disaster policies, plans and exercises to ensure their accuracy and effectiveness.

Included in their training and service offerings is a unique product called The TeleCrisis Advisor™, a combined Enhanced Threat Management software program, with a telephone threat management training and software package that places critical crisis management resources right at employee's fingertips, assisting them in professionally and confidently managing difficult or threatening phone contacts. The program is easily customizable to incorporate companies' policies, procedures, and emergency response protocols.

AllSector offers the SendTrac® Administration and Case Management Systems, both delivered through a secure web-based portal. The Administration System is designed to provide automated support for many of the administrative processes performed by staff and includes automated workflow processes for purchasing, human resources, facilities, and information technology related tasks.

The SendTrac® Case Management System is for recording and tracking the services provided to consumers, clients, or users. At the heart of the Case Management System are automated workflow forms that pass information to appropriate staff for approval and action. It has been successfully deployed in the Healthcare and Social Services fields and Facilities Management/ Waste Management industries.

Since SendTrac Administration and Case Management Systems facilitate the routing of forms or incident information, and ensures proper status notification and timely follow up by automatically sending emails and other types of alerts to the proper people, XBRM's TeleCrisis Advisor is a perfect complementary offering.

"When a disaster or threat occurs, not only will people know what to do but now with AllSector, the right response teams will be notified quickly and automatically," said Steven M. Crimando, MA, BCETS, Managing Director of AllSector's XBRM Division. Crimando is a world recognized expert, noted author, speaker, consultant and trainer to governmental agencies, non-profits, NGOs and multinational corporations on disaster-related behavior.

"XRBM brings tremendous subject matter expertise to the area of human factors in disaster response. We bring a robust, easy to implement technology platform to deliver that content and notifications," Michael L. Davis, President and CEO of AllSector.

About: AllSector Technology Group, Inc. is a system integrator and software developer with deep experience in delivering a wide range of information technology and application services. Their flagship application, SendTrac, is an enterprise-class document management and workflow solution designed for online business process management delivered via Web-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). As a SaaS-based solution, SendTrac Administration and Case Management Systems make business process management paperless and smooth. Not to mention, very cost effective to deploy and maintain. Since 1998, their professional, experienced staff has provided a wide range of information technology services to many companies, not-for-profit organizations, and government agencies. Visit http://www.allsector.com/ for more information.

About: Extreme Behavioral Risk Management (XBRM), now a division of AllSector, is a crisis management consulting practice specializing in the human factor in emergency management, business continuance, and homeland security. XBRM is home to some of the world's foremost experts in disaster human factors, and offers a comprehensive portfolio of products and services addressing this important facet of crisis management. Visit http://www.xbrm.com/ for more information.

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Do the 'Impossible': How to Create Exciting Photographs and Effects with Cutting Edge HDR Photography

Discover how photographing in previously hopeless lighting conditions is now possible, with tips on new High Dynamic Range or HDR photography.

Boone, NC (PRWEB) September 25, 2008 -- Now you can take great photographs despite challenging light conditions, or learn to create astonishing and artistic high quality visual effects. What photographers used to think was virtually impossible just got a whole lot easier with High Dynamic Range or HDR photography.

In this week's free 7 Photography Questions podcast with host Dr. Audri Lanford, master photographer Tony Sweet, the author of four books and hundreds of articles, answers 7 of the biggest questions about HDR photography -- which is one of the most exciting new areas of digital photography.

"With HDR photography," explains Sweet, "The photographer can emphasize shadows or tone them down, because HDR provides complete control over the entire dynamic range of the image. The important thing is to get familiar with what HDR software can do and learn how to expose images so you get all the highlights and all the shadows. Once you get those two things nailed down, you're on your way."

Sweet gives easy to understand answers to the most asked HDR photography questions:
=> The biggest secret photographers need to know to get the best HDR images.
=> How many different exposures to take for optimum results.
=> The preferred format for shooting HDR and the best HDR software to use.
=> Which types of cameras, lenses, and accessories to use for HDR.
=> How to choose the ideal subjects for shooting HDR images.
=> Exercises listeners can do to improve their HDR photography skills.

Towards the end of the interview, Sweet shares his own HDR photographs and explains how he got their various unique looks and amazing effects. Go here to find the current interview called "HDR Photography - An Interview with Tony Sweet".

About 7PhotographyQuestions.com:Interviews with top photographers are posted to http://www.7photographyquestions.com/ every Tuesday. Listeners can use any computer to hear the podcast at the http://www.7photographyquestions.com/ website, or easily download it to any MP3 player or subscribe at iTunes for iPods and iPhones. The text of the interviews are also posted to the website, as well as Show Notes, the photographs that are discussed, and all of the resources mentioned in each podcast. All of the current podcasts are available here. http://www.7photographyquestions.com/audio-podcast/.

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