Crisis Communications at the Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC)
 Jim will lead the popular Crisis Communications workshop again at the Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC) this calendar year.
This workshop, EM120 - Communicating in a Crisis-Media Training, incorporates the latest proactive communications strategies, hand-on interview opportunities and a realistic crisis exercise in the JIBC's simulation center.
The workshop includes interactive training, on-camera media interviews, news conference preparation, handing media scrums and culminates with a half-day exercise on the JIBCs applied learning laboratory. Featuring innovative immersive simulation, the applied learning laboratory enables very realistic scenario training.
This highly acclaimed two-day Communicating in a Crisis workshop will be held at the JIBC on the dates noted below:
September 28-29, 2010
March 15-16, 2011.
To register for one of these workshops, contact the JIBC Registration Desk at:
604-528-5590 or 1-877-528-5591
register@jibc.ca
New Westminster Police Service
On June 28, we provided with New Westminster Police Service with a 1-day Media Spokesperson workshop. The recent retirement of their media relations officer, prompted the department to train his replacement and two other back-up officers.
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NWPS patrol car outside Police HQ |
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NWPS Inspector Phil Eastwood and Jim
beside city and police department
flags at Police HQ |
Workshop participants prepare
for their on-camera interview |
BP Oil Slick
To put the sheer size of the BP oil disaster into perspective, www.ifitwasmyhome.com have created a program to let you measure it against the land mass surrounding your home town. Click on the link, then enter your town, and province, state or country in the location box top of page, and 'move' the oil spill. http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/
World Conference on Disaster Management (WCDM), Toronto, June 8, 2010
"Jim was invited by the conference organizer's to present at the World Conference on Disaster Management. Jim's topic was 'That Was Then, This Is Now.'
Jim presented some of the changes that have taken place since the first WCDM was held in Hamilton, Ontario in 1990. The presentation was very well received by a capacity crowd.
His PowerPoint slides are shown as well as the following photos:
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Jim presenting at the podium |
The capacity crowd at WCDM |
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WCDM Trade Show exibits area
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Interior welcoming sign to WCDM
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Jim outside WCDM presentation room |
WCDM Sign on exterior of Metro Conference Center |
Media Spokesperson Workshop
 Jim delivered a 1-day Media Spokesperson Workshop in Kelowna, BC, on May 7th to members of the Kelowna Fire Department, RCMP, city of Kelowna and officials from five other surrounding municipalities.
He was assisted by RCMP Sgt. Dan Moskaluk. Dan has had major experience in handling the media at such well-known tragedies as the death of a back country skiers and the Revelstoke avalanche that killed snowmobilers this winter
Kelowna faced major interface fires in 2003, 2005 and 2009.
They realize there is the possibilities of fires this summer - dry weather is forecast - so they wanted to prepare their emergency information team.
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Participants conducting the telephone interview
portion of the workshop |
RCMP Sgt. Dan Moskaluk sharing his media
experiences as a RCMP Spokesperson. |
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A grateful community made this presentation to the Kelowna Fire Dept. in appreciation for their heroic work in the fires of 2003
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This graphic of the Mars-Martin water bomber is made up of hundreds of individual photos of fire fighting scenes
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Kelowna is situated in the middle of Canada's lush Okanangan Valley. This is where we find apple, pear, peach, cherry orchards in abundance |
It was amazing to see this beautiful bird strutting around the orchard. |
Partners in Emergency Preparedness Conference
Tacoma, Washington, April 6, 2010
Jim was the only Canadian invited to speak at the largest emergency planning conference held in the Pacific Northwest.
His presentation titled "Creating Partnerships with the New Media in Times of Uncertainty" was delivered to a standing-room only audience of more that 200 participants.
The accompanying photos tell the story. A copy of the presentation is available HERE
Jim's blog for the business community.
At the request of IT Business, Jim has bee
asked
to do a regular blog on new ways in
which the business community can make use
of the new media to gain an edge in the business
world. This first blog looks at the introduction of
the new Google Phone.
http://blogs.itbusiness.ca
Media Relations workshop in Hamilton
Jim just finished conducting two, one-day media relations workshops in Hamilton, one for first responders and the second for communications and emergency management personnel. The sessions were held in a huge mansion, built by a Hamilton tobacco tycoon in 1895.
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Workshop room, the table was custom-built for the mansion's dining room in 1895. No way you are going to move this! Notice the beautiful stain glass on the windows.
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Home was built by George Tuckett, he was a prominent business man and owned Tuckett Tobacco Company
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Entrance to Masonic Hall, built in 1923. The pipe organ has more than 3000 pipes and is still used on a regular basis.
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Masonic sign and view of the mansion
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Grandfather clock dating from early 1800's, rooms have ceiling varying fro 10' to 16'. The woodwork was done by John Hoodless, a well-know furniture manufacturer in Hamilton at the time. |
Entrance off Queen Street, the Elk was shot in the Hamilton area in 1896. The entrance Oak doors are 8' high and two inches thick.
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Homeland Security Conference, Washington, DC, May 18, 2009
Jim was the only foreign delegate invited to speak to a joint Homeland
Security and National Association of Government Communicators conference at
the Reagan Center in Washington, DC.
His topic was: "The Science of Communications: We Need to Change With the
Times"
As a result of this presentation, Jim has been asked to sit on a Homeland
Security panel to examine the impact and response to the influences of the
New 2.0 Media.
 | Here we see Jim on his trip to Washington, DC, "meeting" President Obama.
A copy of Jim's presentation is attached.
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