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November 21, 2012

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My Eric's Corner Column for the November-December edition of Emergency Management Magazine is Preparedness Should Be Marketed like Coca-Cola I encourage you to read it and comment on what I had to say. I'd love to get a dialog going on this topic of continuous disaster preparedness messaging.

Thanks to everyone that commented on an earlier blog post Disaster Preparedness: Three Days, Seven Days? What will you recommend?

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