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As we look back over 2008, we wish to thank you for your continued support of our NewsBriefs, Disaster Experiences, and our mission to streamline the process of Business Continuity. We greatly appreciate your valuable input and participation in all of our endeavors. For this issue only, here is a look at some of what we have done during the past year and what we've got coming up in 2009. Please let me know how we can be of service to you and your organization in the year ahead.

Happy New Year,

Bob Mellinger
President
Attainium Corp

Quote of the Week

"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right."
- Oprah Winfrey -

Articles

*New* Plan-A-ware
In 2008 we launched Plan-A-ware to streamline the process of Business Continuity Plan development and management. Plan-A-ware is a hosted, Web 2.0 business continuity planning & management service that enhances any organization's ability to interact with its Business Continuity Plan (BCP). From the beginning, the BCP is developed collaboratively and maintained with ease. Team members can "wander" through the BCP resulting in greater awareness, higher retention and improved skills. Here are a few of organizations that have chosen Plan-A-ware:

• American Diabetes Association
• ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership
• FASEB - Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
• UNOS - United Network for Organ Sharing

Business Continuity Planning Workshop
This 1/2 day workshop takes the participants through the steps necessary to develop THEIR Business Continuity Plan. Each participant uses his/her own organization's information. It starts by identifying critical infrastructure, prioritizing key business functions then analyzing the impact of various disruptions to these business functions. From there it's on to developing emergency response procedures and disaster recovery plans. Upon completion, the participants will have a basic business continuity plan. In 2008 the workshop was used to help individual organizations - one-on-one - to develop their own BCPs. Here are a couple of associations that offered this workshop to their members:

• Association Forum of Chicagoland
• Hawaii Credit Union League

We also had the opportunity to conduct a private version of this workshop for SmithAmundsen.

The Disaster Experience - tabletop disaster simulation exercises
Over the past 12 months, Attainium has conducted its half-day Disaster Experience simulation workshop for many organizations throughout the US. Here is a partial list of groups that offered our unique training experience:

• Association of Contingency Planners / Connecticut
• Association of Legal Administrators
• BOMA International
• BOMA New York
• Facilities Decisions
• Hawaii Credit Union League
• National Facilities Management & Technology Conference (NFM&T)
• North Carolina Bankers Association
• World Waterpark Association
• Florida Atlantic University
• George Washington University
• Massachusetts Maritime Academy
• University of Delaware

Tabletop Exercises
This past year Attainium's Tabletop Exercises continued to be a key element in many organizations Business Continuity Management efforts. Each custom designed Tabletop is developed specifically to meet an organization's exercise goals and requirements. Storylines are developed for a specific geography, facilities, resources as well as those threats, hazards and vulnerabilities that are of major concern. Our Tabletop Exercises target any industry, business, building or facility covering virtually anything that is of concern to safety, security, communications and continuity of operations. Here are a few forward thinking organizations that undertook an Attainium conducted tabletop exercise in 2008:

• Blake Real Estate
• CB Richard Ellis
• Fenwick & West, LLP
• Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
• SF Police Credit Union
• SIAM - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• UNOS - United Network for Organ Sharing

Conduct It Yourself Disaster Experiences
Our Conduct It Yourself™ series of Disaster Experiences has drawn rave reviews and continues to be a key factor of success for dozens of in-house tabletop exercises. With Conduct It Yourself™ Disaster Experiences, you can have a professionally developed tabletop exercise with everything you need to conduct the exercise yourself. Each Conduct It Yourself™ CD includes an exercise overview, how-to instructions, forms, script and a ready-to-run PowerPoint slide show with all of the incidents, scenarios, and guidelines for post-exercise discussion and debriefing. For more information or to order, visit our Product Catalog.

Upcoming Sessions and Events
An updated list of engagements is always available on the Attainium web site at www.attainium.net. Below are some of the programs that we will be conducting in early 2009:

• National Facilities Management & Technology Conference
• DRJ SpringWorld 2009
• Louisiana Bankers Association
• National Disaster Recovery Expo

We will also be conducting session at the following institutions of higher learning:

• George Washington University
• Massachusetts Maritime Academy
• University of Delaware

Case Studies
For more information about the work we've done for these and others, check out the Case Studies section on our web site.

Thanks again for your continued support. Best wishes for a safe and prosperous 2009.