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...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Social convergence and the need for transparent crisis comms

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As I'm listening on RadioReference.com and following the response to an explosion in a hotel in Nashville where the US national sheriff...
Monday, June 18, 2012

A few quick lines on Twitter followers

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One thing that really annoys me on Twitter is organizations that send you tweets for a product they're launching or promoting and asking...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

The telling of the disaster story ... a new era

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There has been a significant amount of news coverage and traffic on social networks about the wildfires in the western U.S . Just look at so...
Wednesday, June 6, 2012

It's never too late to do the right thing ... and engage

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Some of you may have followed by tribulations with my local transit system (#oakvilletransit) ... I've tweeted often about them and mos...
Thursday, May 31, 2012

Post-deployment soul searching ...

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I've been back for a couple of days from an operational deployment where I was asked to go and help coordinate emergency information reg...
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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Hacking for good ... RHOK Toronto coming up

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Here's a good cause .... putting your skills and enthusiasm to work and changing the world. A few dozen people will gather in Toronto fo...