Hostile Interviews: 5 Hints for Safeguarding Your Reputation
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Conflict Resolution: A Tail From the Dog Park
Kona keeps Cody calm by playing with as stick. Kona's best friend Cody got into a bit of a scuffle in the dogpark the other day. Cody is very jealous where Kona is concerned, particularly when he first arrives and has to separate her from the crowd. This was the case here and Cody mixed […]
Hostile Interviews: Lessons from a public relations disaster
The Salvation Army has been under fire for alleged discrimination against homosexuals, so when Major Andrew Craibe, Territorial Media Relations Director for the Southern Territory in Australia, was invited to be interviewed by two LGBT journalists for a local radio station last June he probably thought it was a good chance to set the record […]
National Preparedness Report shows limited capacity for risk reduction
FEMA has just released the National Preparedness Report for 2012 and it makes for interesting reading. The NPR is intended to report on progress towards developing the capabilities outlined in the National Preparedness Goal. This is the second year that the report has been published. What I found interesting was the summary of current capabilities. […]
Is San Francisco’s New Fireboat a Political Football?
SFFD Proposed Fireboat (SF Chronicle photo) According to an article in this morning's San Francisco Chronicle the San Francisco Fire Department has just lost out on a Federal grant for $7.8 million for a new fireboat because of "procedural delays." This is a big deal to us here in San Francisco. While others around the […]
Emergency kits – do we need them?
One of the heroes of my teenage years was Doc Savage, a character from the age of pulp fiction who became popular through a re-release in paper backs. What was so great about Doc was that he was not a superhero but a man who had been trained to peak efficiency in all his faculties […]
The Power of the Tweet: Why do we believe this stuff anyway?
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Does FEMA really believe in higher education?
What's the difference between education and training? A lot of us tend to flounder a bit on this one. Someone once facetiously suggested to me that you can understand the difference if you ask the question, "Do I want my daughter to have sex training or sex education?" Joking aside, we generally see training as […]
Thoughts on the Boston bombing: don’t let the bad guys win.
The twin explosions in Boston yesterday serve to remind us of the vulnerability of an open society. Despite the best intentions of our government, we can never completely prevent attacks such as this. The initiative is always with the enemy. They choose the time, the place, the method, and the target. We can't stop all […]