2008

July 4

• The dangers of excessive warnings … and of over-reassurance

July 3

• Risk communication is a type; outbreak communication is a subtype

June 12

• How should the public cope with outrage and uncertainty – and how do I cope?

June 11

• Was Hillary Clinton’s Obama endorsement good outrage management?

June 5

• Risk Communication Talking Points for Hillary Clinton: Some Primary Principles for This Post-Primary Moment
  By Peter Sandman and Jody Lanard

May 31

• Pesticide spraying against West Nile Virus

May 27

• Added the Zoom search engine to the website

May 26

• PR pro advice costs Tories $35K  By Kelly Cryderman
   Published in the Calgary Herald, May 25, 2008

May 10

• Convincing people incinerators have improved

May 9

• Handling explosive emotions demands five acts of empathy
   Published in ISHN (Industrial Safety & Hygiene News), May 2008, pp. 1, 24, 26.

May 5

• Risk communication and Web 2.0

Seminar Announcement posted

• May 14 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• One-day Risk Communication Introduction

May 2

• Selling fire protection

April 25

• Rumors: Information Is the Antidote

April 14

• Labeling BGH in milk

April 9

• Media coverage isn’t proportional to mortality statistics – and it shouldn’t be
• Good reputation and bad reputation: Are there positives that can offset the negatives of outrage?

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March 21

• Responding to damaging rumors when the information is confidential

March 19

• Meeting Management: Where Does Risk Communication Fit in Public Participation?

March 17

• Was it good or bad crisis communication for Hong Kong to shut down its primary schools because of a flu outbreak?

March 10

• Lessons from the Westland beef recall

March 9

• Vaccination and autism: Responding to the Hannah Poling case

February 29

• You can’t hector people into pandemic preparedness

February 21

• Alberta’s oil royalty: The industry’s risk communication mistakes

February 17

• NIMBY

January 19

• Honesty as strategy

January 15

• Who's Irrational? When People “Ignore” Risk Data

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