This what?
This is a blook — part blog, part book. It is the approach I have elected to take to produce the next edition of my book, Disaster Recovery Planning, which is now in its 3rd print edition from Pearson/Prentice Hall, having sold a lot of copies worldwide in several languages.
While it pleases me to say that earlier editions have been used by tens of thousands of planners to develop their own business continuity strategies, I can’t help but feel that the reach of the text has been limited by its delivery method. With the rise of blogging and of epub standards for electronic books, I think that a new delivery method is appropriate for Edition 4. Something like this.
The core idea is that, while I can contribute what I have learned about continuity planning over nearly 25 years of helping companies design, develop and test their plans (and in a few cases, use them in recovering from actual disasters), other folks bring insights born of their experience. A blook format lets them (that is, you) share too.
That is a long way of saying that there are no “gurus of disaster recovery.” Believe me, I flinch whenever I am introduced that way at speaking engagements or described as such in news interviews. To my way of thinking, we are all on our own journeys in this disaster recovery/business continuity thing, and we can surely benefit from sharing what we have encountered along the way.
So, over the next few months, I will put chapters of my own writing into tabs at the top of this page, and I invite you, the reader, to contribute your own commentary and perspective to compliment or challenge my point of view. Your comments will remain embedded in each chapter tab provided they are factually accurate, coherently expressed and civil in tone.
One last thing, to post a comment you must first register. That’s how it is done on most blogs, mainly to keep out the spammers and other riff-raff.
My promise to the reader is to do my best to provide a full accounting of my thoughts, observations, reportage and experience to help in whatever way I can to make sense of the clutter of information you are receiving in the trade press, in vendor marketing, and in the seminars and conferences presented by organizations seeking to grow their dues-paying membership, or by consultants seeking to sell their services, or by vendors trying to sell products. I am not selling anything at all — not even a hardcover book at this point. Consider it my effort to go green.
Welcome to this blook: Disaster Recovery Planning 4th Edition.