The fun (or should I say unsettling) thing about paradigm shifts is that it’s hard to tell when they’re happening. But I spotted one recently, and it kind of rocked my world. If your company recruits recent college graduates, chances are your new employees barely think about email […]
Over the years I have written and spoken a lot about crisis preparedness and response. One point I often stress is that the best way to manage a crisis is not to have one in the first place, and this is why doing a regular vulnerabilities assessment – […]
If you want to provoke a raging argument on Facebook, forget about politics or religion. Try asking a question about punctuation. Recently, I was castigated by an extraordinarily literate FB friend for the punctuation of the name of this blog. She contended that the possessive form of my […]
The other day, I had lunch with Joe, a friend of mine, somebody I had hired as a recent Penn grad at Burson-Marsteller many years ago. We’ve stayed in touch over the years but while I soldiered on in my PR career he abandoned his and decamped to […]
Just how much can you get done in sixty minutes? If your organization became the center of a crisis, in sixty minutes could you: Get Management and Legal to approve a statement and post it on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and the corporate website? Shoot and upload a video […]
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