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How Shall We Communicate Risk in an Era of ‘Manufactured Reality’?

Emergency Planning

I end this set of reflections with two models that are intended to show how reality is created by the power of perceptions and their transformation into shared opinions through socialisation using the powerful new tools that are available in modern mass communication, particularly social media. Durkheim, E. Herman, E.S. Chomsky 1988.

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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Emergency Planning

Source: Wikimedia Commons An interesting map was published by the US Geological Survey shortly after the Turkish-Syrian earthquakes. [1] Many of the news media that have reported the disaster have presented it as the result of inescapable terrestrial forces. the 'violent' level. [2]

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Coronavirus Response: The Peak-End Rule

Plan B Consulting

Pictures of them walking down the road with their possessions in a suitcase and half a dozen plastic bags elicited an extreme amount of anger on social media. I attended the Emergency Planning Society weekly huddle, which is an opportunity for those responding to coronavirus to express their thoughts and ideas and support one another.

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Coronavirus Response: The Peak-End Rule

Plan B Consulting

Pictures of them walking down the road with their possessions in a suitcase and half a dozen plastic bags elicited an extreme amount of anger on social media. I attended the Emergency Planning Society weekly huddle, which is an opportunity for those responding to coronavirus to express their thoughts and ideas and support one another.

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You’ll Never Walk Alone

Plan B Consulting

The planning for large scale events and their emergency planning has come a long way since Hillsborough, both from a police prospective and an event planning prospective. What does that mean to us business continuity people?

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You’ll Never Walk Alone

Plan B Consulting

The planning for large scale events and their emergency planning has come a long way since Hillsborough, both from a police prospective and an event planning prospective. What does that mean to us business continuity people?

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The SEPA Cyber Attack a Case Study

Plan B Consulting

Over the last four weeks, I have been publishing a running commentary on their response here. Social media has been used to promote the good work SEPA does and to try a portray it is business as usual. They say that data stolen from the Scottish government agency has been published online. They have also said that they lost 1.2