Documents tagged with crisis response

Sex and Age Matter: Improving Humanitarian Response in Emergencies

Humanitarian aid is largely guided by anecdotes rather than evidence. Currently, the humanitarian system shows significant weaknesses in data collection, analysis and response in all stages of a cr...
  • Feinstein International Center published this 08 / 16 / 2011
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The Politics of Global Disaster Response

Natural disasters have long been seen as an opportunity for political outreach and diplomatic reconciliation. For the European Union after the Lisbon Treaty, that raises questions about what kind o...
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  • World Politics Review published this 07 / 26 / 2011
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A Day in the Life of a School Shooting

In 2001, a reporter followed our leadership team around for 2 days as we attempted to triage the Santana High School campus after a school shooting, witnessed by over a thousand students, which lef...
  • David Moore, PhD CDP published this 12 / 08 / 2010
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ISCRAM2010Proceedings_wit hAbstractsandLinkstoFullP apers

Proceedings of the ISCRAM2010 Conference in Seattle, May 2010. This document contains abstracts and links to the full papers that can be downloaded freely.
  • bvdwalle published this 08 / 10 / 2010
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Crisis Management Communications Roles and Responsibilities: Spokesperson

This article is about the duties of the communications spokesperson, the person who will tell your organization's story to its stakeholders. Although usually your audience is not the reporters - it...
  • Bob Roemer published this 10 / 28 / 2009
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Crisis Management Communications Roles and Responsibilities: Writer

This article is about writing crisis response communications, and provides sample boilerplate for the crisis response initial statement. When it comes to crisis communications plans, two element...
  • Bob Roemer published this 09 / 23 / 2009
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Crisis Management Communications Roles and Responsibilities: Analyst

This article is about the duties of the communications analyst, the person who ensures the response is effective. The analyst gathers and interprets data about the crisis from several sources t...
  • Bob Roemer published this 09 / 23 / 2009
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Crisis Response Communications Roles and Responsibilities: Team Leader

This article discusses the role and responsibilities of the crisis communications team leader. The first step in communicating about an event that places your organization's reputation at risk i...
  • Bob Roemer published this 09 / 23 / 2009
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Media Monitoring: Looking Outside Your Organization

Media monitoring provides the communicator with an external view and information regarding how effective the organization's messages are, how widespread the coverage of the crisis is and advance wa...
  • Bob Roemer published this 05 / 01 / 2009
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The Three Components of Crisis Response

Regardless of its size or purpose no organization is immune from a crisis that can damage or destroy its reputation. An image is fabricated; a reputation is earned.
  • Bob Roemer published this 04 / 30 / 2009
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The Initial Statement - Your First Impression

The initial statement not only contains information about the situation, it also establishes your organization as a source of accurate, confirmed information.
  • Bob Roemer published this 04 / 29 / 2009
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When the Balloon Goes Up

When the Balloon Goes Up: The Communicator’s Guide to Crisis Response is both a reference book and a text book. Yes, it does contain some theory about crisis management but most of the pages are de...
  • Bob Roemer published this 04 / 09 / 2009
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