October 2007 - Posts

• Is It Any Wonder that FEMA Was Confused Over Who Gets to Play the Part of the Reporter??

  OK, so has anyone by now NOT read of the news conference held last week by FEMA featuring FEMA employees pretending to be journalists? The Bush Administration has certainly had its share of questionable judgements when it comes to news management. Until Read More... Posted 29 October 2007 21:02 by Chris Gidez | 1 Comments Filed under: Crisis Communications, citizen journalism, FEMA

• Crisis Management Might Not Be Rocket Science, But it Ain’t Simple Either

  I am moved to comment on an op-ed I read in the October 11 issue of PR Week . The piece, entitled, “ Put public's interest first in a crisis ,” looked at the Tylenol product tampering incident and drew the following profound lesson: In an ideal world Read More... Posted 23 October 2007 20:16 by Chris Gidez | 4 Comments Filed under: Crisis Communications, JetBlue, TJX, Guidant, Bausch & Lomb, Johnson & Johnson, Tylenol Recall, Merck, Vioxx