It’s been a busy few weeks for us. Brandon’s been finishing a summer session in pursuit of his philosophy degree and I’ve been traveling. Brandon calls it my Vision Quest (any Matthew Modine fans out there? Of course there are.) We’ve also been busy trying to turn this love affair of ours into a business. […]
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In times of crisis, the top communication objectives are typically to provide information to the public that will help them stay safe, that will tell them how they can help your organization to help them, to reassure and to instill confidence. All communication strategies and tactics, therefore, need to be developed with these objectives in […]
It’s a busy week for us here as I prepare for my U.S. Coast Guard retirement ceremony, Friday, and brandon wraps up his final exams so he can drive to D.C. to be the keynote speaker at my retirement ceremony. A couple weeks ago brandon wrote a career advice piece about embracing your apprenticeship. What […]
There are 20 seconds left on a ticking clock, and you have no timeouts. Your starting quarterback is knocked out of the game, and the backup needs to move the ball another 20 yards to get within field goal range to force the game into overtime. As the offensive coordinator, it’s your job to call in the […]
My recent series of posts covering the basics of crisis communications generated a few questions from pros who have the corporate comms thing wired, but would like to see more granularity on the mechanics of building a crisis comms program. You ask, we deliver. This post will expound on our 101 post, “Preparing for the […]
The Crisis Communicator 