When most of us think of a crisis hitting our business or organization, we think of an explosion or a fire or perhaps more in the mind of many New Brunswickers recently, a flood.
So those kinds of incidents used to be where we focused our crisis communications workshops. That changed back in 2004 after I took advanced training at the Institute...
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change”
Charles Darwin made that rather astute observation well over a hundred years ago, but for many, it is ringing true more now than ever before. Apple adapts and survives. Kodak doesn’t, and didn’t.
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One of the interview samples I have been using in my media training workshops lately is from the CBC newsmagazine show Power and Politics where host Evan Soloman is doing a segment on whether a proposed oil pipeline should be permitted in western Canada.
On one side is John Bennett from the Sierra Club and on the other Kathryn Marshall of...
Conventional wisdom is that newspapers are becoming yesterday’s news – destined to become extinct. We’ve seen the stories about staff cutbacks, and long standing papers folding, and about ad revenues being down.
No question social media has certainly changed the media landscape and has made life challenging for newspapers. When is the last time...
Anyone who follows my blog knows that the common denominator is communications – communications strategies, crisis communications, what works, what doesn’t, and why.
I’m pretty passionate about communications – the different approaches, the simple turn-of-phrase that makes a certain message stick – the imagery and language in a speech that can...
I don’t know Frederick Wangabo Mwenengabo. Never met him. But after reading about him in Adam Bowie’s stories in the Daily Gleaner, I have nothing but admiration for him. What he endured at the hands of the cruel and corrupt government in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is more than any human being should face. His courage in fighting the good...