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By: Julia Lee

Julia Lee — Mon, 09 May 2011 19:23:16 +0000

Hi,

As part of Hurricane Preparedness Week 2011, Everyday Health has created The Hurricane Disaster-Proof Healthy Eating Guide to serve as the food preparedness resource for upcoming hurricane season and all natural disasters.

http://www.everydayhealth.com/healthy-home/hurricane-preparedness-guide-to-healthy-eating.aspx

Based on your preparedness coverage, we think the visitors of living-prepared.com will find it useful to get prepared now in a healthy way rather than later during a disaster. Let me know if you are able to mention so we can give you a shout out in an upcoming blog wrap-up at the start of the hurricane season.

Stay safe and eat well!

Julia Lee
Outreach Director
Everyday Health
julia@everydayhealth.com
646.389.1795
345 Hudson Street, 16th Floor
New York, New York 10014

By: Mark Prutsalis

Mark Prutsalis — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:08:55 +0000

http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org

By: Jim Callahan

Jim Callahan — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:31:23 +0000

Hati / Sahana

Do you know if an instance of Sahana has been set up for Hati earthquake?

If a Sahana website has been set up, where would one find it?
If not, what is the (human) protocol for setting up an instance of Sahana?

Jim Callahan
Orlando, FL

By: Mark Prutsalis

Mark Prutsalis — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:39:31 +0000

Indeed. Thanks Stacy for this important reminder. Ready.gov is one of the best preparedness sites around. Keep up the good work.

By: Stacy

Stacy — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:28:51 +0000

Hi Mark,

Did you know that September is National Preparedness Month? To help encourage Americans to prepare for emergencies, both man-made and natural disasters, the Ad Council has launched the Ready Campaign. [http://www.ready.gov/]

The goal of the Ready Campaign is to get the public involved and ultimately to increase the level of basic preparedness across the nation. Ready is nationwide effort to encourage Americans to take simple steps to prepare for emergencies in their homes, businesses and schools.

The campaign asks individuals to:
(1) get an emergency supply kit
(2) make a family emergency plan
(3) be informed about the different types of emergencies that could occur and their appropriate responses

I thought you might be interested in sharing this important information with your readers. Here is a widget you can embed on your blog that contains links to news and resources from this campaign: http://seed.sproutbuilder.com/vgA3Qu3yD0Rq3Krh

Your readers also might be interested in using this interactive emergency family plan tool: http://ready.adcouncil.org/beprepared/

Please let me know if you have any questions or need additional information. Thanks for your help in spreading this important message and encouraging your readers to be prepared!

By: Mark Prutsalis

Mark Prutsalis — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:12:57 +0000

Good to hear from you my friend. It has been too long. I couldn’t have gotten here without you. Check out the links to your site!

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:21:31 +0000

Heyyyyyy, hello stranger…. Long time no see nor hear!

Peter

By: Mark Prutsalis

Mark Prutsalis — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:42:49 +0000

Thanks for your message. I am glad to meet you. I spent a little time on your blog and LifeSecure website last night and I’m very impressed. As you probably noted from my “About Me” page, most of my experience is in responding to international disasters – at the beginning of my career the nasty man-made kind with lots of people shooting at each other – and more lately the natural kind with earth moving, waters flooding, winds blowing type. I personally have not been present for a major natural disaster – I usually get there a day or two later. You’ve had an interesting life in that regards.

You’ve had some great experiences and you definitely started your business at a good time for it (unfortunately). Your product line contains just about everything one could wish for – the kits are well packaged, practically portable, and not too costly either. I’d be glad to cross-promote your efforts on Living Prepared – I’ve already added links to your blog and corporate site.

Best regards,
Mark

By: David Scott - Secure Survivor

David Scott - Secure Survivor — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:47:29 +0000

Mark,

Welcome to the neighborhood. It looks like we both started our emergency preparedness blogs about the same time. I am the Founder and President of LifeSecure. We sell emergency preparedness solutions to government agencies, corporations and businesses of all sizes, schools and families. My partners and I started the business just four months before katrina hit in 2005. To date we’ve helped about 170,000 people get prepared for an emergency or disaster.

I have bookmarked your blog and sbscribed to your feed and I will be interested in your perspective on preparedness as you chronicle your “journey”. I too try to take a very practical approach to preparedness. This comes through my actually having lived through many different types of disasters – thus the “Secure Survivor” reference. I was born in the US but grew up overseas in Australia and the Philippines and spent time in Mexico as a young man. All together, i spent about 13 years abroad. I now live just outside of Chicago.

I am starting a reference of emergency preparedness consultants on my blog (everylifesecure.com). I’d be happy to add you to the list if you wish – just let me know. Our consulting is limited to advice on emergency kits and supplies. I will add your blog to my Blogroll and would be interested in trading links and seeing how we might help each other to grow our reach.

Let me know if I can be of help as I have been working on ways to publicize my blog. Have you registered with Technorati yet? I’d be interested in any tips you have that are working for you.

I look forward to hearing from you and supporting your blogging efforts.

Thanks,

David