By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on August 3, 2010
Here’s a great guest blog from a colleague and frequent contributor to my ezine, Jerry Brown. This advice is just as important for crisis-related media relations, maybe even more so, than it is for more routine, proactive PR. Jonathan Bernstein You had me at helloBy Jerry Brown, APR www.pr-impact.com Hook me at the beginning if […]
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By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on July 28, 2010
I am offering free guest lectures in crisis management/crisis communications-related topics to any relevant college or university class, lectures to be delivered by webcam. At your end — project my image for the class to see. Then point your webcam at the class so I can see and hear them. It’s that easy. Contact me […]
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By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on July 22, 2010
The morning before the brouhaha over Shirley Sherrod vomited out of Fox News to create a domino effect of shameful response, I happened to publish an analysis of journalistic ethics today in the form of an article telling non-journalists exactly how to fight back against unethical media. If the practices espoused in the article had […]
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By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on July 18, 2010
[This is a guest post by Dave Statter, who recently retired from the broadcast news business and now consults to public safety agencies on media matters. It provides readers with several excellent lessons about crisis management.] When PGFD paramedics misidentified flesh eating bacteria and related signs as decomposition following death (despite a Glenarden, Maryland man still being alive), the […]
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By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on July 14, 2010
In the past couple of weeks Dell has been the focus of a newly revealed crisis as a recently-unsealed 2007 lawsuit charging the company with knowingly selling millions of faulty computers made headlines. PC Magazine has the details: Advanced Internet Technologies (AIT) sued Dell in 2007 over charges that Dell sold AIT more than 2,000 […]
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By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on July 6, 2010
[This is a guest blog from “Managing Outcomes,” published by Tony Jaques, Director of Issue Outcomes Pty Ltd, for people who work in issue and crisis management and strive for planned, positive outcomes. You can subscribe to his newsletter at www.issueoutcomes.com.au] Every manager who has ever wanted to beat up on an ill-informed or aggressive […]
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By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on June 29, 2010
This is the first short educational video I’ve created on YouTube. I apparently spoke a bit too quickly and one word was omitted at the beginning, but otherwise I hope you find it to be an interesting introduction to this crisis management subject! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVar3MZbpaU ——————————- For more resources, see the Free Management Library topic: Crisis […]
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By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on June 20, 2010
I’m back after a one-week at-home vacation that included no computer use for business purposes and no social media participation. A very relaxing change of pace! But, alas, time and mortgage payments wait for no man, so I reluctantly return to the land of the working stiff. I’d like to invite readers to check out […]
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By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on June 10, 2010
Does this bird look familiar? If not, let me introduce you to “Ono the Ostrich,” the long-time official mascot of my Crisis Manager email newsletter. Now, I’ve launched The Ono Awards to honor those whose public statements embody the image displayed by Ono. And the winner of the first Ono Award is…..here. Readers are encouraged […]
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By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on June 2, 2010
I’m in the process of doing a “virtual blog tour” to promote Keeping the Wolves at Bay-Media Training and today enjoyed reading an interview with my wife and I about the process of publishing the book. Rather than focusing on the book content, the Brummer’s Conscious Blog’s host examined what happened behind the scenes as […]
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Jonathan L. Bernstein, founder and Chairman of Bernstein Crisis Management, Inc. has more than 25 years of experience in all aspects of crisis management – crisis response, vulnerability assessment, planning, training and simulations.[Read more ...]
Erik Bernstein is president of Bernstein Crisis Management. Erik started with BCM in 2009 as a writer and subsequently became social media manager for the consultancy itself as well as for a number of BCM clients before moving to the president position.
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