4 November 2022 by Tallie Proud
Comms Camp is an unusual conference. For starters, there’s no agenda and no speakers. Yet over a hundred comms people (many local government and NHS) vie for tickets, travel sometimes long distances (even across the pond) and spend the day together talking all things communication. Why? It could be because…
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3 June 2021 by Julie Jourcin
While I was staying at my parents’ in Northern France a letter in the mailbox caught my eye one morning. For the first time in 3 years, they were receiving an awareness guide in case of an industrial emergency in the area. My parents live near an industrial zone where…
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31 May 2020 by Kate Rawlins
Crisis communications is a hot topic at the moment as COVID19 responses remain the focus of almost every organisation worldwide. Although this isn’t another blog from a crisis consultant advising or critiquing Coronavirus responses, instead it’s a thread of observations from the past few courses I’ve taught to communications officers…
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2 March 2020 by Chris Malpass
In 2018 I packed up my London flat and moved to New York to open the US arm of Helpful Digital. The brief? To build on the work we had already been doing in the U.S. since 2015 to create a sustainable stateside business. We’re two years into that adventure,…
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1 November 2019 by Chris Malpass
We were asked by the City of Redmond to support in the delivery of the Cascadia Rising Solutions emergency planning exercise. The aim of the exercise, run over two days in late October 2019, was to test the decision-making and public information response to a category 9.0 earthquake impacting the…
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4 September 2019 by Kara Jobmann
National Preparedness Month takes place every September in the US. It’s an opportunity for emergency responders and government organisations to encourage their audiences to be prepared for any kind of emergency. There’s always plenty of useful tips shared. But if you are responsible for communicating such advice, how do you…
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26 July 2019 by Kate Rawlins
The popularisation of the term ‘fake news’ is often incorrectly used to describe various forms of troublesome content published on modern media networks. However, generalising all deceptive content as ‘fake news’ is problematic because by not properly defining the context of the content, it’s challenging to respond appropriately. Instead, the…
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5 July 2019 by Steph Gray
I had the privilege to see a well-drilled client crisis team at work this week. Their organisation is enormous, and they have a crisis process honed and documented and rehearsed across the world on a regular basis. It’s impressive to witness, with a depth of strategic thought that we don’t often…
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19 June 2019 by Kara Jobmann
As political unrest rises, the number of displaced peoples and refugees are reaching record highs. The UN Refugee Agency estimates there are 68.5 million people who have been forcibly displaced from home countries. Of that number, 40 million people are internally displaced, 25.4 million are refugees and 3.1 million…
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24 April 2019 by Kara Jobmann
The earth is warming at an increasingly rapid rate. While world powers and government entities work to combat climate change, the global population has experienced increased severity of hurricanes and frequency of natural disasters. These disasters leave communities devastated and reeling – unable to rebuild and then properly prepare for…
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