Never has the need for a crisis communications strategy been as crucial as it is in contemporary times. The catastrophic events of the previous years have shown that relying solely on traditional communications tools for contacting employees, customers and other constituents in a time of need is not enough for...
Call it a tryst with destiny! Firstly the floods lashed the city and this looks like it is going to become an annual event; then disturbances took place in the city following some untoward incident by sections of a political party. Now it's the serial bomb blasts. Mumbai has had...
Internet crises share many of the fundamental elements of crisis communication management. First, every organization needs a crisis plan that includes many potential scenarios and should also include the worst case scenario - total product failure. This crisis plan should be taken seriously and practiced in a simulation exercise. Everyone...
Events such as terrorist acts, hurricanes and power outages have shown people that interruptions in one's business, not to mention one's daily life, is never far away. Even the best-thought-out disaster-response plans are inadequate if they don't include effective means of communicating to first responders, citizens and emergency operations centers.
The tragedy at the Sago Mine near Tallmansville, WV on January 3, 2006 and the rumors that followed highlight the criticality of communications in a business continuity plan. It also points out that no matter what the news, timing can turn an event into a "Lose-lose" situation. One of the...
Several interesting post have been published over the last months on using blogs and RSS in a crisis communications context. Most of them focused on the media relations aspect. And although the author fully aware of the importance of keeping the media up to date with accurate information during such...
The article asserts that risk is one of the main features of modern societies. With the Internet a new media has appeared, which on the one hand has increased the risk associated with information: free accessibility, interactivity, globality, and connectivity of personal, economical, political and media communication have all led...
HOUSTON -- Pixel Creative Group, with more than 30 years of design, marketing and advertising experience, has recently expanded its capabilities to include public relations, crisis planning and management, and marketing and communications services through its association with Lentini Creative Communications. Pixel Creative Group evolved...
As U.S. stock values fell and the cost of going public rose, small companies backed by venture-capital investors have stopped listing new shares on U.S. stock exchanges, an investors' trade group said. Start-up companies face a "capital markets crisis" after the number of initial public stock offerings, or IPOs,...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ECONOMIC WOES CAUSED BY A WEAKENING JOB MARKET, mortgage crisis, and rising fuel prices may have stopped consumers from buying new clothes, cars, homes, and other goods. But it has not stopped them from buying the hottest video games and hardware. ...
In the uncertain days following Hurricane Katrina, when I knew nothing about the condition of the university where I worked, I relied on the university's website to keep me informed and give me direction. At first it contained only the ominous message, "The university is closed until further notice."...
Nivis, the world's leading developer andintegrator of wireless network technologies, together with Cisco, theworld's leading supplier of networking equipment and network management forthe Internet, are debuting an embedded wireless IP mesh technology using a6LoWPAN solution for integrated device management at the Cisco Livetechnology showcase in Orlando, FL through...
"Practice Pearls," A New Online Learning Tool, Delivers Business Skills to Physicians in Private Practice WASHINGTON -- Against a backdrop of escalating insurance costs, increased staff turnover and Internet-savvy patients, today's physicians need more than a medical degree. "Physicians practice in the most...
WASHINGTON -- Is everything spinning out of control? Midwestern levees are bursting. Polar bears are adrift. Gas prices are skyrocketing. Home values are abysmal. Airfares, college tuition and health care border on unaffordable. Wars without end rage in Iraq, Afghanistan and against terrorism....
NEW YORK -- American International Group, Inc. AIG today announced that its Board of Directors has named Chairman Robert B. Willumstad to the additional position of Chief Executive Officer. Willumstad succeeds Martin J. Sullivan, who is leaving AIG and its Board of Directors. The Board has also...
100 Percent of Donations Distributed to Beneficiaries MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Rebuild Hope, a new national not-for-profit organization, today announced the first online financial support network that directly connects injured U.S. servicemen and women with people who wish to help them. The Rebuild Hope website...
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- The world in-flight entertainment and connectivity (IFE&C) market continues to grow as airlines install new equipment or upgrade their systems. Current fleet upgrades and increasing orders for commercial aircraft and business jets indicate a strong market potential for IFE&C systems. For instance, the...
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc., aleader in Internet infrastructure software, has released version 9.5 ofBIND, its industry standard Domain Name System DNS software. With over18 months of development and testing, BIND 9.5 provides several internalprocessing improvements and feature additions, including an optionalXML-based statistics channel and interoperability with Active...
MIRAMAR, Fla. -- With another hurricane season approaching, Comcast/South Florida is making preparations by continuing to harden its facilities and finalizing its crisis response plans. During the past two years of minimal storm activity in the area, Comcast has been busy building redundancy systems for its network...
Internap's Performance IP[TM] and International Data Center Colocation Services Ensure Optimum Performance for Routine and Emergency Communications ATLANTA -- Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a global provider of end-to-end Internet business solutions, announced today that Send Word Now, the leading provider of on-demand alerting and response services,...
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