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What’s a print journalist like? That’s like asking what’s a politician like. The answer depends. There are beat reporters ...

03 May

Giving Good Clip

I went into the media training business about 20 years ago because I had interviewed plenty of politicians who ...

26 Apr

A Case Study: 9/11 World Trade Center, New York City

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Event: 9/11, World Trade Center, New York City Date: 11 September 2001 Summary The terrorist group al-Qaeda coordinated suicide ...

18 Apr

A Case Study: Hurricane Katrina

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Date: 23-30 August, 2005 Summary: The storm began over the Bahamas, strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico, then weakened ...

30 Mar

Technology is making things worse | Troy Media

For example, you can no longer simply call your lawyer to set up a one-minute meeting. It now requires ...

25 Mar

Mastering your Voice

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Your voice can radically affect your personal image as well as the impact of your text. Constant use of ...

13 Mar

Rube Goldberg infects the tech world | Troy Media

There are workarounds in technology that are just as funny as any Goldberg cartoon What a Rube Goldberg! American ...

21 Feb

Is it time to end convergence mania? | Troy Media

Propeller-head tech types may be enamoured with convergence, but it is failing to fill the needs of real people ...

13 Feb

How to Prepare for Earthquakes

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On February 6th, 2023, Turkey and Syria experienced a 7.8 magnitude earthquake, killing tens of thousands of people. It ...

09 Feb

Why do businesses make it is so difficult to close the deal today? | Troy Media

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Closing the deal has become secondary to establishing your account and following the proper procedures There are 500,000 procurement ...

25 Jan

Aspirational

Many personal coaches and therapists try to get their clients to stop using the “woulda, shoulda, coulda…” terminology. We ...

20 Jan

Analytics create databases just waiting to be hacked | Troy Media

Political parties’ fixation on analytics poses a threat to your personal information In the olden days, there were lots ...

10 Jan

Auckland

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Auckland’s Emergency Management Group Plan is a wake-up call for the rest of the world. In my study of ...

29 Dec

External Responders to your Crisis

Viewing the public as de facto first responders simply acknowledges what is a reality in many disasters. Even if ...

05 Dec

The Changing Media

I began writing news on a typewriter. In our small and cheap broadcasting station we cut audio tape with ...

18 Oct

DISCOURS ET PRESENTATIONS

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Le besoin Pourquoi avons-nous besoin de bien parler? Après tout, je n’ai jamais rencontré quelqu’un qui ait été affamé ...

12 Oct

The Media and You

Like it or not, it’s almost impossible to cut yourself off from today’s news media. Step into an elevator ...

05 Oct

CARING, KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION

America is so polarized that I have to be careful about writing only about Democrats or Republicans in Winning ...

27 Sep

SIMULATIONS AS A LEARNING TOOL

Teachers of dispute resolution are constantly grappling with the question of best practices and methodologies. One of the most ...

21 Sep

PROCESS DESIGN

Disputes are thieves. They rob us of time, energy and money. Disputes can even lead to death. Preventing disputes ...

15 Sep

CRISES ET TROUBLE DE STRESS POST-TRAUMATIQUE

Un vaste débat porte sur la durée et l’étendue réelle du stress causé par un incident grave et du ...

08 Sep

DRAW ON ALL YOUR RESOURCES

Miscommunication in personal and professional life costs time, energy and money. Despite that, business leaders are generally poor communicators. ...

31 Aug

SURVIVING RADIO

Fredericton radio morning show host Terry Seguin did his introduction, and then began grilling me about urban emergency planning. ...

16 Aug

SECRET SECRETS

In the classic movie Animal House staring John Belushi, some of the rowdy students are put on “double-secret probation.” ...

04 Aug

A CYBERSECURITY CHECKLIST

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There are plenty of resources on cybersecurity. Some are based on existing frameworks, but much is still under development. ...

25 Jul

BIG DATA

“I don’t have anything to hide,” say many social media users and online shoppers. But most of us do ...

15 Jun

A N E M E R G E N C Y C L E A R I N G OF THE AIR

while ago, just before writing about Bradford’s emergency preparedness plan, there was a BBC news story about a fire ...

03 May

A POINT OF ORDER

Clive Thompson’s headline in the New York Times Magazine is eye-catching and funny — “PowerPoint Makes you Dumb.” The ...

24 Apr

FOR SAFETY’S SAKE… T H I N K A G A I N

Researchers in the emergency management field call urban emergency plans fantasies, since these rely on public transit, private cars, ...

10 Apr

TOTALITARIAN

In the days before computers, politicians still had a way to deter- mine how much help they’d give you. ...

26 Mar

V O L U N T E E R S

In the movies, when the town is threatened by natural or other events, somebody rounds up all the able ...

12 Mar

Anna Novykana – A Ukrainian businesswoman who stayed to support her people

Ms. Novykova started her business career as a financial manager with a grain trading company Loture LTD. In 2006 ...

Roman Ilchenko Russian Invasion of Ukraine

09 Mar

Roman Ilchenko – A Ukranian military reserves fights in war

Roman Ilchenko has served as a Founding Partner of NIAR, an international group of companies focused on business development ...

09 Mar

OUR DEMOCRACY IS COMPLACENT AND INEFFECTUAL

Canadian deterrence simply consists of heavy breathing from Trudeau Those who worry about hyperbolic accusations of an authoritarian government ...

05 Mar

P H A N T O M H E L P E R S

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The things you’ll need to save lives in an urban emergency are pretty ordinary. This means chain saws, shovels, ...

22 Feb

ALLAN BONNER ON SIRIUS RADIO DISCUSSING SAFETY AND SECURITY

10 Feb

THE IMPORTANCE OF GREEN SPACE

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The “green” economy is an economy aimed at preserving the well-being of society, through the efficient use of natural ...

10 Feb

Allan Bonner on Sirius Radio with Matt Gurney discussing safety and security during protests

30 Jan

DARLIN’ BE HOME SOON

Good artists borrow and great artists steal, they say. We’ll, I’m stealing from Jim Cobb who has written a ...

18 Jan

COPS

Cops have a pretty good set of rules and responses. They look for the good and bad actors. They ...

07 Jan

N E W T E C H N O L O G Y

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Here’s the problem with the relentless pace of technological development. We aren’t using the new technology. Alvin Toffler tried ...

24 Dec

E V A C U A T I O N

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Urban designers ignore ordinary people’s preferences. The evidence is the well-worn pedestrian path through vegetation. This shows how people ...

29 Nov

Consultation communautaire

Il faut savoir prendre du recul, faire preuve de de logique et d’organisation lorsqu’il s’agit de gérer une situation ...

22 Nov

Règles à suivre avant et pendant une conférence de presse – quoi faire et quoi éviter

Communiquer n’est pas chose innée. Certaines règles de base en terme de communication publique doivent être acquises, surtout en ...

06 Oct

Cyber Security Awareness – Areas of Concern

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From internal security to checking your insurance to filling out forms – these are the areas that you or ...

27 Sep

Le poids de la réputation – Attaques internet et réputation

À l’approche du mois de sensibilisation à la cybersécurité, je vous partage aujourd’hui un schéma simple pour comprendre et ...

13 Sep

La victimisation, expliquée

Je vous propose aujourd’hui d’appréhender ensemble le processus de victimation au travers d’un schéma simple tiré de mon ouvrage ...

30 Aug

Comment protéger votre réputation

Parce qu’il faut être paré à toute éventualité, et qu’il est important de savoir comment se protéger et protéger ...

16 Aug

Mise en place d’un périmètre de sécurité

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L’organisation est l’une des clés lors de situations de crise. C’est pourquoi je vous propose un schéma simple mais ...

10 Aug

The Top Ten Lessons Learned In The Canadian Election

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Via Political Columns by Allan Bonner Get in touch with Allan

26 Jul

10 Raisons pour expliquer une mauvaise communication

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Voici quelques raisons pour lesquelles il pourrait y avoir une mauvaise communication. Cliquez ici pour télécharger

19 Jul

Pandemic Book Review – The Hype Machine by Sinan Aral

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Is it possible to distinguish between real conspiracies and fake conspiracies? Click here for more of my book reviews

16 Jul

Don’t turn news conferences into Hollywood productions

The camera doesn’t doesn’t lie. The stuffed characters behind the head of government in COVID news conferences are always ...

12 Jul

Pandemic recovery also means Indigenous issues – Interview on Sirius Satelite Radio

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06 Jul

How to Prepare for Extreme Heat Safety

The intense heat around the world has been driving us out of our own homes due to lack of ...

10 Jun

Pet Emergency Preparedness Checklist

Don’t count your pets out if you are laying out your emergency plans for you and your family. June ...

21 May

Why can’t politicians manage press conferences?

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This newsletter is a reprint of my syndicated column on COVID news conferences… Why can’t politicians manage press conferences? ...

03 May

Calls for better communication as pop-up vaccination clinics draw thousands

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By Monica Gul SURREY (NEWS 1130) – Pop-up COVID-19 vaccination clinics in Fraser Health are being described as chaotic, ...

01 May

Protect and Prepare You and Your Family In A Wildfire