As a former Boston resident, avid Craigslist user….and human, I find the news of the Craigslist killer to be pretty frightening. When the news first broke, we imagined the alleged suspect would probably be some sort of deranged psychopath, yet were more horrified to find out he could easily have been any of our peers […]
Entries Categorized as 'crisis communications'
Investigating the Internet
April 23, 2009
Social Media: Friend or Foe?
April 16, 2009
It feels as though every day we are inundated with information and news about social media and how we should be utilizing its tools. Sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn have become recent phenomenon’s seemingly taking over our lives. However, as one popular pizza chain and two of its employees quickly […]
Car Companies Pull Back at New York Auto Show
April 15, 2009
The New York International Auto Show, which runs through April 19 this year at the Javits Center in Manhattan, might be the only time in its 109-year history where hecklers have made themselves so vocal at the show.You all know that American economy has historically relied heavily on the auto industry. Statistics still […]
Walgreens Pulls “Offensive” Obama Product
April 9, 2009
Joseph Enterprises, maker of the much-maligned Chia Pet, may not replicate its success with The Clapper by bringing out the Chia Obama, a terra cotta figurine that grows hair. Walgreens was test marketing it in Chicago and Tampa but it will now be removed, according to the Chicago Tribune. A spokesperson for the drug store […]
Madoff: People Just Can’t Get Enough…
March 13, 2009
It’s been a while since America had such a great villain. In the recent past, there was Eliot Spitzer and President George W. Bush. And then of course you remember Osama Bin Laden (”Wanted Dead or Alive” from the New York Post). It comes in waves, the collective hatred Americans project on the one person […]