Socom celebrates International Women’s Day
On March 8, 2018
Socom is proud to say that our team is more than 50% women! To celebrate International Women’s Day, we want to share a little bit about the power-force that are the women of Socom! With more than 10 years of experience in both public relations and issues management, Kath is an expert when it comes to crisis communication....
Lessons Learnt From A Terrorist Attack
On June 18, 2014
David’s daily wrap-up of the World Conference on Disaster Management. Kjell Brataas gave an excellent presentation reflecting on the learnings from the Norwegian Terrorist attack that bombed the Prime Minister’s office killing eight people and then killing another 86, mostly young students, in a shooting spree on Utoja Island. After the bomb explosions destroyed a...
Planning for Pandemics, Epidemics and Outbreaks
On June 16, 2014
The second workshop of the World Conference on Disaster Management was extremely interesting and related to pandemics, epidemics and outbreaks. The first point was the need to change the terminology from pandemic plans to epidemic or outbreak plans because we are more likely to experience one of these than a pandemic. An outbreak can still...
Planning a Crisis Simulation Exercise
On June 16, 2014
The first workshop of the World Conference on Disaster Management was disappointing. However, there were still some learnings, especially from the discussion and comments among participants. Some interesting points include: Challenges faced by people running simulation exercises include: Senior management failing to buy in and not attending. This poses problems when an actual crisis does...
Relationships are critical – it’s time to start the revolution
On March 20, 2012
If you’ve ever had to call an organisation several times to get a response, been placed on hold only to face a hang up, or given up waiting for someone to answer your query, you understand how it feels to be undervalued. Surely answering the phone or returning a phone call can’t be too difficult....