Episode 9 – Our Special Back To School Issue

This week (August 15, 2012) on The Crisis Show we aired a special one-hour “Back to School” segment with very insightful guests, who we were honored to have.

Our Three Guests

Karen Freberg
Karen is an assistant professor in Strategic Communications at the University of Louisville and also is an adjunct faculty member for West Virginia University in the Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) Graduate Online program. Freberg has presented at several U.S. and international research conferences and has been published in several book chapters and in academic journals such as Public Relations Review, Media Psychology Review, and Health Communication. Her research interests are in public relations, social media, crisis communications, and mobile technologies.

Gail Glover
Gail is the Senior Director of Media and Public Relations at Binghamton University, SUNY. She has been in the world of strategic communication, public and
media relations for close to 20 years. Over the course of her career, she has managed both internal and external communications activities, developing strategies for crisis management, advocacy efforts and community relations. Gail has presented at several U.S. conferences and has led her team to national recognition for efforts in social media, crisis communication, advocacy and outreach activities.

Philip Lentz
Philip is the Director of Public Affairs at New York University. He is veteran public affairs professional who has served as a spokesman for government agencies, political campaigns and nonprofit organizations. He was also an award-winning journalist for many years who covered national and local politics for such publications as the Chicago Tribune and Crain’s New York Business. He has published a novel, a political thriller titled “The Corcoran Affair,” and he lives in Manhattan.

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Links worth checking out

Karen briefly discussed the Project EPIC from the University of Colorado. To learn more about this project, click here.

Here’s a link to the work Leysia Palen and her team are doing with new media and crisis communications over at the University of Colorado.

Here’s a link about how one university, Texas A&M, is busy informing its critical audiences that a shooting did NOT happen on its campus but a few blocks away.

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