Archives for “Crisis Communication”

joplin tornado videos

Tweet the 2011 joplin tornado from wikipedia during the 2011 joplin tornado the aftermath How you can help.


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it is as spurious to…

Tweet It is as spurious to over-assign unadulterated ‘credit’ to social media activism as it is to deride it as trivial and/or dangerous. The reality is that social media is part of – though by no means the entirety – of the air we collectively breathe. And new actors are appearing who are arguably without [...]


Egypt Social Media Activity Unexpectedly Small

Tweet I have been digging into the background story on the 2011 revolution in Egypt. Follow that last link for a good recap of how the police beating of Khaled Said created a maelstrom that has turned into massive protests and labor strikes in Egypt. A man named Wael Ghonim has emerged as a symbol of [...]


students were four times as likely

Tweet Social networks were apparently a more significant means of transmission than seating arrangements. Students were four times as likely to play with children of the same sex as with those of the opposite sex, and following this pattern, boys were more likely to catch the flu from other boys, and girls from other girls. [...]


Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill by Transocean / BP – Resources

Tweet 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

Tweet 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 [...]


Tweet 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 [...]


Chron Post: The roaming chainsaw gangs of Houston

Tweet 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 [...]


Tweet 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 [...]


Hurricane Ike hits Houston Hard