Crisis Communications 101

Thursday, June 11th, 2009 Posted in Life & Business Lessons, Local & Community News, PR 101 | No Comments »

Former N.C. First Lady Mary Easley’s brief employment at N.C State University recently resulted in four involuntary departures – hers, the chancellor’s, the provost’s and the chairman of the board of trustees. Read more about the details about this story. While ...

Crisis communications when there’s a storm on the horizon.

Thursday, September 4th, 2008 Posted in Local & Community News, PR 101 | No Comments »

I was so impressed last weekend with the crisis communications executed by Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana.  After watching him speak for just five minutes, even I knew what his key messages were. Today I have been working with our client ...

Don’t be that guy.

Friday, August 8th, 2008 Posted in Life & Business Lessons, PR 101 | No Comments »

As Shelley mentioned, we’ve conducted networking training for some clients, helping them adopt more effective strategies for making connections at conferences and tradeshows. Over the years, I’ve heard clients say, “Oh, we went to that show and we never got any ...

I can hear you now.

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 Posted in Life & Business Lessons, PR 101 | No Comments »

Recently we held a training day for a client where we focused on media relations and public speaking.  I did not participate in the training that day, but was able to listen in from my desk. In the training materials that ...