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  1. Announcing some great new features

    Posted 13 May 2013 by Sean Fishlock (Crisisworks)

    With an upcoming version 3.1 release of Crisisworks is only a few days away, I thought I'd share with you one of the features I am most excited about - major improvements to the Announcements system.

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  2. Vulnerable Persons Registers (VPR) gain Momentum

    Posted 29 April 2013 by Sean Fishlock (Crisisworks)

    Launched just a few months ago, the Vulnerable Persons Registers (VPR), an initiative of the Victorian Department of Human Services and Municipal Association of Victoria has now been rolled out to ...

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    The VPR makes it easy for authorised users to locate vulnerable persons in an emergency
  3. 3 NSW councils activate Crisisworks for bushfires

    Posted 21 January 2013 by Sean Fishlock (Crisisworks)

    Bushfires across southern New South Wales has seen Crisisworks activated by three councils in a Zone Emergency Operations Centre (EOC).  Tumut, Gundagai and Tumbarumba utilised Crisisworks ...

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  4. Getting Live Feeds into Crisisworks

    Posted 10 January 2013 by Sean Fishlock (Crisisworks)

    With the summer bushfires going on, one thing you can do to enhance situational awareness in your EOC is to make available in your maps information directly from fire monitoring and control services.

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  5. Workshop at Broadford

    Posted 11 December 2012 by Sean Fishlock (Crisisworks)

    Datalink director Peter Kakris and I facilitated a training workshop for approximately 20 emergency practitioners from Mitchell Shire Council, SES, Red Cross, CFA , Victoria Police and Ambulance ...

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  6. Adding and Customising Map Layers in Crisisworks 3.0

    Posted 29 November 2012 by Sean Fishlock (Crisisworks)

    The Crisisworks Service Desk receives many questions relating to importing and customising mapping layers, so I thought I'd create a quick video to walkthrough of a couple of our most common ...

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  7. Workshop at Moonee Ponds

    Posted 27 November 2012 by Sean Fishlock (Crisisworks)

    Earlier this week, Datalink director Peter Kakris and I facilitated a training workshop for approximately 20 emergency practitioners from Moonee Valley City Council, SES and Victoria Police at ...

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  8. Commendation at Resilience Australia Awards

    Posted 18 November 2012 by Sean Fishlock (Crisisworks)

    MECC Central, Victoria's state-wide implementation of Crisisworks, received a commendation at the 2012 Australian Resilience Awards for being the "Australia's first linked emergency management ...

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  9. First Crisisworks exercise in New South Wales a success

    Posted 16 November 2012 by Sean Fishlock (Crisisworks)

    The Crisisworks team have just returned from our pilot implementation of the system in New South Wales at foundation partner Tumut Shire Council and we're very pleased to report that all went well.

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    View of the Tumut Shire EOC in exercise action
  10. 10 Tips for incorporating Crisisworks into your local EOC exercise

    Posted 5 November 2012 by Sean Fishlock (Crisisworks)

    Successfully incorporating Crisisworks into your emergency management exercises can represent one of the final hurdles to fully implementing the system, so we've compiled some tips that may help get ...

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