Category: Communication

& White View">Words Define Perspectives: The Security World’s Black & White View

Many movies, par­tic­u­larly block­buster action movies, are very sim­plis­tic in their por­tray­als and char­ac­ter­i­za­tions. Good guys vs bad guys — that’s it, that’s all you need to know, that’s all they’re telling you. That’s fine when it’s for enter­tain­ment, although even then my opin­ion is that more nuanced and com­plex char­ac­ters make for more interesting […]

Monday April 26th, 2010 in Communication, Emergency Management, News & Commentary | Comments Off

What Do You Do? How You Phrase the Answer Can Make or Break You

Mar­ket­ing isn’t some­thing just for the mar­ket­ing depart­ment.  It’s some­thing we all do, but it’s just that most of us do it very poorly.  The clip below is talk­ing about indie musi­cians mar­ket­ing them­selves — you know, the kind that the big labels haven’t picked up, nobody knows about, and are try­ing to get people […]

Saturday January 30th, 2010 in Communication | Comments Off

Did You Know Addresses Don’t Work the Same Way Everywhere?

It’s really cool to find out that I’ve been using a basic assump­tion that I didn’t even know was there. There are some things that are so fun­da­men­tal to the way that peo­ple where we grow up think that we don’t even real­ize that cer­tain basic assump­tions have been made.  It is not until we see […]

Saturday January 30th, 2010 in Communication, Leadership, Other Fun Stuff | Comments Off

He Who Controls Images, Controls People

With all the recent buzz on the Inter­net and else­where about Google’s impend­ing pull-out from China, much men­tion has been made of the cen­sored con­tent that Google.cn presents to users in China.  Con­trol of infor­ma­tion is fun­da­men­tal to total­i­tar­ian con­trol of peo­ple.  For that rea­son, Google.cn could not present, for exam­ple, images of the 1989 […]

Monday January 18th, 2010 in Communication, News & Commentary | 1 Comment »

Do Event Planning Backwards Only If You’re the Gambling Type

When plan­ning for a major event involv­ing mul­ti­ple par­ties and agen­cies, par­tic­u­larly when mul­ti­ple spe­cial­ties are involved, effec­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tion is absolutely crit­i­cal.  Every­one needs to under­stand who’s in charge, where they will get infor­ma­tion from, and who they will give infor­ma­tion to.  You need to have a solid com­mand, con­trol and com­mu­ni­ca­tion (C3) struc­ture in […]

Friday January 15th, 2010 in Communication, Emergency Management, Leadership, Systems + Processes | Comments Off

Switch to our mobile site