American corporate espionage preparedness is unprepared
American corporate espionage preparedness, in a random sample and via anecdotes, is in bad shape. We are not prepared. The video is 30 minutes but worth it for training your team. Now a question. What...
View ArticleSchipulites test Yammer for Crisis Communication during Hurricane Ike
Prepare for Hurricane IkeOriginally uploaded by eschipul It’s about 5:33 AM on Sept 12, 2008 as I type this. As a company we have been through numerous hurricane preparation drills. Katrina was a...
View ArticleYammer Default Configuration not Ideal for Crisis Communication
Day 2 of our experiment with Yammer for internal crisis communication with Hurricane Ike coming down on us. This is the default configuration even after you set up your SMS. The default config will NOT...
View ArticleHurricane Ike hits Houston Hard
Hurricane Ike in Long ExposureOriginally uploaded by eschipul Hurricane Ike hit Houston this last Friday night. And he was deadly. And very damaging to say the least. First and foremost my thoughts...
View ArticleMitigated Speech and Business Communication
Recently finishing Outliers, I was really struck by the section on mitigated speech and airplane crashes. Gladwell‘s definition of mitigated speech on page 194 is: Mitigated speech – any attempt to...
View ArticleChron Post: The roaming chainsaw gangs of Houston
Recent post on the Chron: The roaming chainsaw gangs of Houston. Hurricanes bring about unexpected responses in us humans. It’s like the first time you see your dog or cat catch a squirrel and they go...
View ArticleTechnology and Crisis Communication Panel at SXSW. Vote?
SHORT VERSION: Please vote for my panel at SXSW DON’T PANIC – The Geek’s Guide to the Next Big Crisis LONG VERSION: A little more than four years ago I wrote my first blog post. It was about the...
View ArticlePR 2.0 New Media Communications Model
New Media Communications Model from PR 2.0. An evolved version of Lasswell’s model per the book: Who Says what In which channel To whom To what effect Then who Hears what Who shares what With what...
View ArticleDeepwater Horizon Oil Spill by Transocean / BP – Resources
Deepwater Horizon Response Main Site: http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com Twitter Handle: http://twitter.com/Oil_Spill_2010 Deepwater Horizon on Facebook:...
View Articlestudents were four times as likely
Social networks were apparently a more significant means of transmission than seating arrangements. Students were four times as likely to play with children of the same sex as with those of the...
View ArticleEgypt Social Media Activity Unexpectedly Small
I have been digging into the background story on the 2011 revolution in Egypt. Follow that last link for a good recap of how the police beating of Khaled Said created a maelstrom that has turned into...
View Articleit is as spurious to…
It is as spurious to over-assign unadulterated ‘credit’ to social media activism as it is to deride it as trivial and/or dangerous. The reality is that social media is part of – though by no means...
View Articlejoplin tornado videos
the 2011 joplin tornado from wikipedia during the 2011 joplin tornado the aftermath How you can help. The post joplin tornado videos appeared first on Ed Schipul.
View ArticleH4CK3D: Why my web site? What now?
Your web site will be hacked. It is inevitable. It’s not a technology problem, it’s a people problem. Wetware is the weakest link and it is us. H4CK3D: Why my web site? What now? Motivations and...
View ArticlePrince was a Trickster
Prince was a trickster, the best kind of god for social scientists and apparently the verge agrees as well. There are numerous books on this, the last I read was called Trickster Makes This World:...
View ArticleWSJ Data on Financial Decline since 2016 Election
Make no mistake, say “pro business” and then create “market uncertainty” and you get a LOT less job creation. Wall Street Journal last weekend. Data is data. Constrict capital and people like me can’t...
View Articlesome bi-partisan good news – uptick in crime is a bump in overall decline
We get plenty of bad news so let’s talk about crime trends again. From the article: Using the FBI numbers, the (crime) rate fell 50% between 1993 and 2015, the most recent full year available. Using...
View ArticleEquifax Breach via Apache Struts Framework
As reported last Friday, the 2017 Equifax personal credit reporting agency had a data breach of 143 Million people’s identities. It started in May 2017 and is just now (August 2017) being disclosed. It...
View Articlethe resistance will be distributed
The kids are smart. The resistance will be distributed. #CLOUDact just accelerates this. #neveragain #mastadons @tendenci The post the resistance will be distributed appeared first on Ed Schipul.
View ArticleMicrosoft Worm Exploit Danger and Huawei Unintended Consequences
From the article titled: Warnings of world-wide worm attacks are the real deal, new exploit shows It was posted Tuesday by Sean Dillon, a senior security researcher and RiskSense. A play-by-play helps...
View ArticleYour 2nd Amendment Rights Are About to be Taken Away by the Senate
This is a crosspost with editorial commentary (by me) from https://blog.tendenci.com/mlk-day-2020-read-the-docs/ . I wrote that post, and given this is my personal blog I’ll add a bit more of my...
View ArticleCoronaVirus – Markets Move on Emotion not Fundamentals
Now we see fears and the reality of coronavirus hitting the markets hard. I’ve said it before, so this is repetition, but worth repeating. Stock markets move on emotion much more than the...
View Articlehunting botnet attacks and reporting to the host
I like to demystify things for people who aren’t completely tech savvy, hopefully using words that are human readable, although anything having to do with information security (infosec) is going to...
View ArticleA third of Coronavirus patients admitted to ICU – Lancet Medical Journal –...
This is the progression of the Coronavirus in a patient over time. This is why we quarantine.https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2820%2930183-5 I’m stunned by this: “Lancet, the...
View ArticleCOVID19 – Until We Expand Testing it Will Not Be Solved
When Roses Die Because They’re Already Cut From the article by a Canadian in Florida returning to Canada by car. She left out of concern that Floridians were ignoring the Coronavirus Pandemic. (I will...
View ArticleCOVID19 Stats April 8, 2020
From theGuardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/08/coronavirus-world-map-which-countries-have-most-cases-deaths-covid-19 Deaths from Coronavirus. Logarithmic Scale Cases of Coronavirus...
View ArticleLighting is the new Power Suit – Home Lighting for Zoom Conference Calls
When suddenly we are all on video chat much more than ever before, lighting becomes a big deal. When meeting with the boss or a client you typically want to look your best, which in the past meant...
View ArticleDo Not Burn Our Flag
I do not care what the context is or was. I do not care if you were manipulated and weak minded enough to be influenced by “fake Facebook” or “the Manchurian candidate” or some conspiracy theory or...
View ArticleWhen the dollar’s primacy dwindles the US hegemony ends
From the article, (and I believe we are already there): “A major blunder would be pushing too hard with financial punishments, and incentivizing Moscow and Beijing to bypass the U.S. trade and monetary...
View ArticleSolarwinds hack by Russia can’t be understated
While America has been reading news articles about tweets our adversaries have been busy. Busy since March 2020. Not my first rodeo, and given hackers are incredibly patient and typically play the...
View Article0ne Half a Million Souls in the US Alone
From the article: “WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States faces a dark milestone despite a recent decline in COVID-19 cases as it prepares to mark a staggering half million deaths this week, nearly a...
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