Sunday, October 28, 2012

Too much info during incidents: time for a new command position?

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As Hurricane Sandy (#sandy or #frankenstorm on Twitter) approaches the East Coast, we are once again witnesses to a great volume of informat...
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Friday, October 19, 2012

Big exercise = big lessons learned in SMEM

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I had the opportunity this week to take part (mostly as observer/coach) in a big emergency management exercise. Trillium Resolve had more t...
Thursday, October 11, 2012

Crisis communications readiness: a necessity

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I often say that every organization should have a thorough crisis communications plan and that every response plan should have a crisis comm...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

It's time for emergency managers to catch up with society!

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The Canadian Red Cross did all of us who believe in the growing importance of social media in emergency management (SMEM) a great favour. Th...
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Sunday, October 7, 2012

Building community resilience and social networks

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I had the great privilege to be invited to present at the Canadian Red Cross Conference on Disaster Manager in Halifax earlier this week. Th...
Friday, September 14, 2012

New technologies and the power of the few

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This week, the world witnessed the other side of the "Arab Spring" ... Hardliners, from Tunis to San'a, from Benghazi to Cairo...
Friday, August 24, 2012

.social media, crowdsourced news and your crisis comms posture

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Today's shooting in the heart of New York City brought, once again, a perfect illustration of the changing landscape in how news are rep...
Friday, July 20, 2012

Aurora shooting: shows that general situational awareness is an everyday must

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The terrible movie theatre massacre in Aurora, Co, truly was horrific. Another senseless tragedy, where first responders reacted within a co...
Saturday, June 30, 2012

an SMEM reality check

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I had the opportunity to be deployed to the site of a structural collapse in Northern Ontario this week to help coordinate emergency informa...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

More on transparency and crisis communications

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This is a follow up piece to my recent post on the increasing need for transparency in crisis communications response brought by social con...