From PRSA:
PR in a Pandemic: Planning for Communications During an Avian Influenza Outbreak
Date: Thursday, August 31, 2006
Time: 2:00 p.m. ET
Duration: 60 minutesThis seminar will help participants understand the issues surrounding public relations or public affairs planning for a long-term influenza pandemic. Regardless of whether you are a military or public safety public affairs professional, or handle internal or external communications for private business or public organizations, information presented in this seminar will help you understand the many communications issues surrounding a long-term influenza pandemic. This session will help PR professionals identify the questions they should be asking to prepare for the possibility of a pandemic influenza outbreak. Topics to be explored in this virtual seminar will include: organizational operations likely to be impacted in a pandemic; need for unique collaborative communications networks; staff dynamics for joint information centers and public relations staffs; and ethical issues.
Sorry, but we’re not that anal. Our clients will just have to die of bird flu. We’ll be on the first plane to Australia or Iceland or someplace safe.
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I don’t know, brother. I,too, was one of those “cry wolf” types, but I recently had a conversation that changed my mind. Gregory Peterson appeared on my podcast, The Cranky Middle Manager Show (http://cmm.thepodcastnetwork.com Show #56) to talk about why companies should prepare for the flu pandemic and the role individual managers should play in those plans.
I went from skeptical to mildly worried in about 20 minutes.
As a manager with people on my team scattered around the world, I know how vulnerable we are.
I’m not a fan of scare media but dang……