Archives for “Crisis Communication”

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill by Transocean / BP – Resources

Deepwater Horizon Response Main Site: http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com Twitter Handle: http://twitter.com/Oil_Spill_2010 Deepwater Horizon on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DeepwaterHorizonResponse


PR 2.0 New Media Communications Model

New Media Communications Model from PR 2.0. An evolved version of Lasswell’s model per the book: Who Says what In which channel To whom To what effect Then who Hears what Who shares what With what intent To what effect Explained in greater detail in PR 2.0, Solis, Breakenridge. pg 190. This is mostly a [...]


SHORT VERSION: Please vote for my panel at SXSW DON’T PANIC – The Geek’s Guide to the Next Big Crisis LONG VERSION: A little more than four years ago I wrote my first blog post. It was about the need for a form of Emergency RSS. We can share celebrity gossip headlines through feed readers [...]


Chron Post: The roaming chainsaw gangs of Houston

Recent post on the Chron: The roaming chainsaw gangs of Houston. Hurricanes bring about unexpected responses in us humans. It’s like the first time you see your dog or cat catch a squirrel and they go all primal on it. And you are looking at your little FeFe thinking “WHERE the $#(@ did they learn [...]


Recently finishing Outliers, I was really struck by the section on mitigated speech and airplane crashes. Gladwell‘s definition of mitigated speech on page 194 is: Mitigated speech – any attempt to downplay or sugarcoat the meaning of what is being said. In short, co-pilots may not communicate clearly with captains out of deference. They hint [...]


Hurricane Ike hits Houston Hard