01.12.07
ISSN:1528-3836
© 2007 Jonathan Bernstein
Circulation: 4,000+
Estimated Readership: 14,000+
THE MATT BANDY STORY
This is the story — and client account — which I've been hinting about and working on for almost five months. You can be part of the solution to this crisis, so I hope you'll visit our site!
Whether or not you got a chance to see the ABC 20/20 broadcast about Matt Bandy and his family's zombied computer this evening, be sure to visit our related website for a lot more detail. It is:
http://www.justice4matt.com
The site — written as if it was, de facto, a giant newspaper — will take you into the center of a crisis and show you how it's been managed from a legal and PR perspective, and what we're doing going forward to mitigate damages and achieve some positive outcomes.
You can help to prevent such crises from recurring, and perhaps even be of assistance on this one, by:
- Encouraging everyone you know, personally or professionally, to visit this site. Really pull out all the stops on this one, folks, it's an incredibly worthy cause. THIS COULD HAPPEN TO YOU.
- Providing a link to the site from yours, if you want to support what will soon become a nationwide fight for reform.
- Asking yourself — what can my organization do to be part of the solution, e.g., I've already been contacted by a firm that has developed software which helps ISPs identify and contain computer zombies on their system; or maybe you have clients who can help or become associated with the current underdogs in this struggle --The Bandys.
- Visiting the "How You Can Help" page at the site.
- Suggesting potential civil or criminal law solutions to the "better than we'd feared" but still highly unsatisfactory resolution of the legal case.
While I always appreciate reader mail on this and any other issue, it would help us keep track of suggestions and inquiries if any "solution" thoughts you have be submitted via the Contact form, and not by reply email to this special announcement. The Contact form goes right into our PIER system database (thank you Audience Central) and then notifies us.
You are welcome to reprint anything you find at the site, as long as you give the URL from whence it came.
CRISIS MANAGER BUSINESS ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Keeping The Wolves At Bay
Keeping the Wolves at Bay (available in print and PDF formats) remains, to my knowledge, the only commercially published media training manual in the world. It can be purchased at www.thecrisismanager.com, and its pages can be modified to make it YOUR "name brand" media training manual if you are an agency or organization that frequently conducts training. If the latter subject is of interest to you, write to:
jonathan@bernsteincrisismanagement.com.
PLAIN ENGLISH DISCLOSURE
Bernstein Crisis Management, Inc. has formal or informal co-promotional and mutually beneficial business associations with a number of the services we mention periodically in this newsletter. No, we can't go into details because that's confidential, proprietary, etc. But our relationship is NOT "arm's distance" and you should know that, since we regularly write about these services as we use them for crisis and issues management or other purposes. That said, you should also know that Bernstein Crisis Management sought the relationships because its staff is convinced that these services are the best of their kind for Bernstein Crisis Management's needs and those of its clients. If you have any questions about these relationships, please contact Jonathan Bernstein, (626) 825-3838.
ABOUT THE EDITOR & PUBLISHER
Jonathan Bernstein is president of Bernstein Crisis Management, Inc., www.bernsteincrisismanagement.com, a national crisis management public relations agency providing 24/7 access to crisis response professionals. The agency engages in the full spectrum of crisis management services: crisis prevention, response, planning & training. He has been in the public relations field since 1982, following five-year stints in both military intelligence and investigative reporting. Write to jonathan@bernsteincrisismanagement.com.
GUEST AUTHORS
GUEST AUTHORS are very welcome to submit material for "Crisis Manager." There is no fee paid, but most guest authors have reported receiving business inquiries as a result of appearing in this publication. Case histories, experience-based lessons, commentary on current news events and editorial opinion are all eligible for consideration. Submission is not a guarantee of acceptance.
LINKS
When I find a site that I think will be useful to my readers or site visitors, I put it on our Links page. If you have a site that would be of specific use to crisis managers and want to discuss a link exchange or other cooperative effort, please write to me, jonathan@bernsteincrisismanagement.com.
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