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04/22/2020

GRAND ISLE, La. – A brown pelican leaves his perch on a string of protective boom placed around Queen Bess Island, Aug. 20, 2010. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Erik Swanso…

03/25/2020

https://thecrisiscommunicator.com/2019/04/05/risk-comm-101-where-it-all-begins/

This is the second installment in a basic risk communication series, adapted from a U.S. government training manual. The first post looked at the basics of what risk communication is; this post lay…

03/24/2020

The first in a redux of a 5-part blog series breaking down the science and practical application of risk communications.

NOTE: This is the first part in a series about – well – basic risk communication (hence the title!). It is adapted from an old (but surprisingly still-relevant) manual on the topic, assembled by th…

10/28/2019

Kimberly just pulled into Perth Australia aboard SDC Response Rig-Bravo to meet up with our friends from EMSI and help deliver ICS-320 training to one of their corporate clients.

(h/t to Bobby Nash for the upside-down photo idea.)

10/27/2019

Brandon and the Response Rig were in Hanover, VA last week helping to deliver FEMA's Public Information Office course on The Virginia Department of Emergency Management training campus.

A major cornerstone of any successful public information response is the application of collaborative communication concepts ... something Brandon has covered in the past on our blog.

https://thecrisiscommunicator.com/2014/03/11/collaborative-crisis-communications-the-steps/

06/01/2019

Hurricane season starts today. If you're a local, state or federal public information officer or emergency manager, this online workshop will take your game up a notch and get you ready to communicate with impacted citizens. Use the discount code "FB30" to get 30 percent off the registration fee.

Ideal for anyone who may be charged with communicating to impacted publics during a critical incident, threat to public health or the environment, or other crisis event.

04/12/2019

Developed by Dr. Vincent Covello, the Risk Communication Seven Part Model is an invaluable tool for practically any communications situation.

This is the last part in our basis risk communication series. In the last post, we touched on non-verbal communication, risk comparisons and negativity in communication. We’ll discuss a commu…

10/10/2018

SDC-2 just finished transiting Pontchatrain (no causeway required) OTW to Covington, LA where we’re teaming up with corporate crisis comms ninja Terri Larson to conduct Joint Information Center and media training with Louisiana Offshore Oil Port Services http://ow.ly/jsm630maT9M

09/25/2018

The response rig rolling into Joliet, Ill., (one-time home to a Mr. J. Blues -- he was just trying to pay the band, man) today to do some JIC refresher training and provide some incident response exercise support. Anybody know a good place to get SCMODS installed in the rig while we're here?

09/05/2018

Washington to Rochambeau, Siege of Yorktown, 1781 (probably): "Let's get this thing done, Johnny!" Works for us! The response rig rolled through those historic battlefields today. Here to bring S-402 Liaison Officer training to your newest & partner agency LOFRs this week!

08/30/2018

Brandon and Paul and Chad and Rusty (and loads of other people) spent many many moons on the Gulf Coast in 2005/6 -- 13-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall at Louisiana is today. Paul and Brandon have written about public information, crisis comms, risk comms and other stuff involving response and recovery to The Storm on the blog. Here:

What “Dodging a Bullet” Looked Like, Katrina +10 December 10, 2015 · by brandon brewer | in Historical Cases | tagged Greatest Hits of 2015, Hurricane Katrina, Katrina 10th | Leave a comment This week and next we’re counting down (and re-posting, etc.) our Top 10 Most Read Pieces of the year....

08/14/2018

Fresh from the blog:

Please welcome Kjell Brataas, a native Norwegian residing just outside of Oslo, serving as a senior communication advisor with Norway’s Ministry of Transportation. Kjell cut his crisis comms …