Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Crisis Prevention”
For effective crisis management, information needs to flow quickly to your target audiences. This past week communicators have done, by and large, a good job of using the various media channels available, especially social media. Relying on crisis communication protocols, the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, …
Worldwide health care provider International SOS has created a web site solely to communicate important info about recent the swine flu outbreaks. The site should be of great use to anyone involved in creating crisis management plans as it has all the current news and recommendations regarding the new outbreak. …
A 17-page “Disease Briefing on the 2009 H1N1 (Swine-) Flu Outbreak in Humans” was published yesterday, April 25 by Gunnar J. Kueppner, Region 9 President, International Association of Emergency Managers. The report is copyrighted by Gunnar, who was kind enough to allow me to make it available for download. The …
The latest edition of Crisis Manager went out yesterday and is now posted to our site as well. I’ve still got Twitter on the brain and this issue features an article detailing my conversion from Twit-a-phobe to vocal supporter. We’ve also got a guest piece by Tony Lentini , President …
It can’t be said enough, thorough preparation is the key to successful crisis response. A reporter from Pacific Business News recently spoke to members of several crisis communications firms to prove this point using real world examples, including navigating clients through last year’s terrorist attack in Mumbai. From the article: …
I couldn’t resist sharing this one after the way I finished Thursday’s post. I said having an open ear to social media outlets can only aid your reputation management efforts, and this story of a very angry Comcast Cable customers’ issue being resolved via Twitter proves that point beautifully. Setting …
A BlackBerry containing information from both British cabinet members and the ex-deputy prime minister was recently recovered by UK police after being sold by a homeless man in South Yorkshire, England. This story from CrackBerry.com caught my eye because of the extremely lax way the owner of the phone (obviously …
Talk about tough crisis management, the ongoing Somalian pirate hostage crisis ended today with three of four pirates killed by U.S. Navy Seal snipers before reaching the Somali coast. The order to fire was given only when the hijacked cargo boat’s captain was facing imminent danger to his life, allegedly …
The Homeland Security Newsletter is dedicated to delivering news related to both national and international security issues, covering topics from cyber-spies to aviation security and everything in-between. Along with being a good source of information, the incidents are often incredibly useful studies of crisis prevention and crisis response in action. …
The primary goal of crisis management is to provide an organization strong moorings from which to weather the storm that is a breaking crisis through training, crisis prevention and response plans, etc. In this article from CNNMoney.com, management guru Jim Collins explains the ways in which great companies take advantage …
The business of handling national disasters is crisis management on a large scale. Currently, the Department of Health and Human Services is gearing up for a possible pandemic of avian flu. Predicted by many scientists, the timing of this pandemic is unknown. The government has done the right thing and …
President Obama’s mortgage assistance programs give banks an excellent chance to get some good PR and repair their reputations simply by doing what was mandated – providing assistance to homeowners who are having difficulties. Unfortunately, it appears that not everyone is taking advantage of this opportunity. After hearing a reader’s …
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Today we’ve got an article from crisis management colleague and frequent Crisis Manager contributor Judy Hoffman’s Quick Tips on Keeping Cool e-zine. Like what you read? Subscribe here. WHERE HAS OUR CORPORATE CONSCIENCE GONE? If you are anything like me, you have probably been doing a lot ofhead shaking recently. …
Crisis management is not a science. Although there are certain tenets that most in the field hold true, a situation that merits one reaction today may require a completely different tactic the next time you encounter it due to shifts in public opinion, the ways we communicate, or other outside …
