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Geauga County, Ohio Sheriff Daniel McLelland – in whose county the fatal Chardon High School shooting occurred Monday – believes proactive crisis response training prevented the incident from causing more panic in the community than it already had:
“Several years ago, the Chardon school district and local law enforcement began conducting drills, training, practice, if you would, for an event just like occurred today.
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Hard to find the old fashioned police blotter items in your local newspaper these days. They’ve gone the way of the Private Eye’s fedora. Jim Romanesko, news media watchdog, says that there are so few beat reporters left, there’s no one left to go down to the roundhouse any more to pick up the noteworthy cop beat tidbits.
The Komen firestorm, and flip-flop
The sudden reversal by the Susan G. Komen For The Cure foundation will likely not end the controversy over its temporary withdrawal of funding for mammograms from Planned Parenthood. Without taking a position on the decision itself, and on the reversal, as communications consultants we at CommCore have several observations:
· Why did they make the original announcement in the midst of a bitterly contested Presidential and Congressional election year in which Culture War issues such as abortion – which Planned Parenthood provides on-demand – are among the most divisive?
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Faux Pas in Quebec: National/Provincial Pride and Brand Loyalty
When the fabled Montreal Canadiens NHL hockey team hired Randy Cunneyworth as their interim head coach in December, they knocked over a hornet’s nest of controversy so fierce that General Manager Pierre Gauthier – himself French Canadian – had to issue a rare public apology.
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Top 10 Social Media Gurus of 2011
The Pulse’s Top 10 Social Media Influencers of 2011 illustrates the variety and importance of social media engagement. Included are professional bloggers, corporate communicators, marketers, consultants, authors, and ordinary citizens. Some favor Facebook, others Twitter and Google+.
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Top 10 Social media Blunders: Viral Ooops Won’t Cut It
Social media is now such a standard communications and PR tool that lists such as Advertising Age’s top-10 social media blunders are annual postings. The snafus listed in this 2011 edition are instantly recognizable in fewer words than it takes to fill a 140-character Twitter feed.
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Celebrity Chef Gets Burned
New York celebrity chef Mario Batali stepped into a real stew of his own making last week after he equated bankers with Hitler and Stalin during remarks at a Time Magazine event to propose Persons of the Year.
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“It’s Alright, Ma. I’m only Bleeding!”
When Bob Dylan penned and composed “It’s Alright, Ma, I’m Only Bleeding“ he didn’t have the PR folks at Virgin Atlantic airlines in mind. But the song could be applied to the airline’s recent PR-driven consumer tiff.
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TelePrompter-itis?
Republican candidates are trying to score political points on President Obama for his oratorical style. The same man who is often lauded for his effective speechmaking is being criticized as president for what political opponents are calling over reliance on the TelePrompter.
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No Waffling: How One Company Uses Crises to Its Advantage
When FEMA officials assess the need for aid after a weather disaster in the Mid-Atlantic or Southeastern US, they consult two barometers: The Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale, and how many Waffle Houses are open.