By Gerard Braud – On the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina devastating New Orleans, and coastal Louisiana and Mississippi, I’m reflecting on the old adage that says, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, yet expecting different results.” New Orleans can easily flood from another hurricane. I wrote about that […]
By Gerard Braud – As we remember Hurricane Katrina 10 years ago, there needs to be strong communication from experts about how natural defenses, such as coastal marshes, can avert a crisis, such as hurricane flooding. Coastal marshes have been disappearing at an alarming rate of 33 football fields a day for decades. How does […]
By Gerard Braud – The Hurricane Katrina 10th Anniversary has to begin with the words thank you. The silver lining in the muddy waters was the overwhelming outpouring of help from around the world. Untold volunteers left their lives behind to travel to our region to give their time and talents. Many others donated money […]
As a former storm chaser and TV reporter, my belief is that proper communications from New Orleans officials, before Hurricane Katrina, would have greatly minimized the human crisis. As you will see in this video, the catastrophic flooding was predicted a full 15 years before Hurricane Katrina. Would this – could this — happen again? […]
Tutorial #23 by Gerard Braud — These 23 crisis communication tutorials are meant to inform you and help you realize your official responsibility as a spokesperson. You need to communicate to the media within the first hour of a breaking crisis. You can do this by uploading your own professionally done videos to the web, which also […]
Tutorial #22 by Gerard Braud, — When you watch a video on the web, in just seconds you determine if you will keep watching or if you will move onto something else. In today’s tutorial I’m talking about keeping your videos as short as possible in order to increase your viewership and hang on to […]
Tutorial #21 by Gerard Braud— In this series of tutorials I have reviewed the basics on getting great audio, perfecting your lighting, and how to hold your smart device. In this tutorial, I am taking it a step further to show you some of the latest pieces of equipment I purchased that make iReporting or […]
Tutorial #20 By Gerard Braud — Although this series teaches public information officers (PIOs), emergency managers, and corporate spokespeople to upload videos to the web as an effective crisis communications strategy, it’s also important to note that “crap is king.” In this tutorial, I encourage you to report on not just the serious crisis stories, […]
Tutorial #19 By Gerard Braud — When uploading a video to the web or a CNN iReport during your crisis, you can either place yourself on camera as a narrator of events, or send video of an event that is still ongoing. The video of an event that is still happening is known in […]
Tutorial #18 by Gerard Braud — You may be wondering why you would want to upload your own selfie videos to the web during your crisis. You might think it is the last thing you would want to do, or that it could make your organization vulnerable to more negative feedback or more negative press. However, filming […]