In Crisis PR we have always stressed sticking to the fundamentals. One of them is - Understand social media: now, the audience can listen to…
Peter WilkinsonApril 25, 2012
The New York Times owns this story; it printed the Greg Smith letter. So for followers of Crisis public relations, two NYT stories over the weekend,…
Peter WilkinsonMarch 17, 2012
impact of the Fukushima disaster on Environmental sustainability and economic sustainability, and the dilemma for policy makers in providing enough energy to maintain standards. Fear…
Peter WilkinsonMarch 8, 2012
Crisis PR and the Murdochs #8: The Sun on Sunday launch – do we detect grudging respect? Admiration?
Murdoch on the rebound is a classic lesson for all Crisis PR practitioners. First came the admiration of RM’s Twitter comms, now the respect he’s…
Peter WilkinsonFebruary 25, 2012
Two of the crucial must-haves in managing a crisis are preparation and nimbleness. Now we can bang on about the theory, but instead why not explore…
Peter WilkinsonFebruary 10, 2012
It’s relatively rarely that an internal PR person with expertise in crisis communications speaks up. Below is an interview by PR Daily with director of media relations…
Peter WilkinsonDecember 10, 2011
While strategy is about planning, tactics are about hard work, resilience and attention to detail. They are about being first there are the beginning of…
Peter WilkinsonNovember 20, 2011
A strategy is ‘how’ we deliver objectives over the longer term (tactics in the shorter term). It focuses on issues of resources, processes, people etc. As…
Peter WilkinsonNovember 13, 2011
A critical part of Crisis PR is the recovery of credibility after an event, and the media’s role in that – something the TEPCO folks…
Peter WilkinsonNovember 12, 2011
In previous blogs we’ve written that James’ integrity is one of the fail-points in this drama. There is a truism in Crisis Public Relations that applies…
Peter WilkinsonNovember 10, 2011
Ed: No doubt for some in Mother England, Blair’s speeches bring with them the baggage of history – ‘here we go again’. But Down-Under this ‘vision-type’ speech is…
Peter WilkinsonJuly 30, 2011
Strategies are ‘how’ over the longer term we will achieve our objectives; tactics are short term activities to achieve them. A plan needs both. Avoid…
Peter WilkinsonJuly 19, 2011
The 18th of July will go down as Day 1 of the Murdoch fight-back. The day father and son appeared before the British parliamentary ctee. In…
Peter WilkinsonJuly 18, 2011
It been an hilarious or suicidally depressing week in Canberra (depending on your point-of-view). As Bernard Keane wrote in turnbull spill 2Crikey – Dec 1…
Peter WilkinsonDecember 2, 2009