BulletProofBlog the blog on crisis communications

Each week, Bulletproof Blog features exclusive interviews with thought leaders on issues of critical importance to companies and countries. This week, with boards of directors dealing with increased shareholder pressures on issues ranging from executive succession to executive compensation, we interview Dr. John Holcomb, a professor at the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business. A nationally recognized expert on issues ... READ MORE

Bulletproof’s Weekly Web Wrap-Up offers a compilation of key discussions regarding social media’s increasing relevance to business. Social media encompasses a wide range of tools, services, and features, all of which are uniquely applicable to business, depending upon your particular communicative goals. For example, Facebook can work well for building communities of support online, blogs can be an effective tool for ... READ MORE

While enforcement of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) isn’t expected to begin in earnest until early 2010, smart companies are readying themselves now for a new era of product safety regulation. Soon, the compliance hurdles will be taller, the penalties for failing to clear them will be harsher, and the brand liabilities that accompany enforcement actions will be ... READ MORE

Last week, I wrote about how Democrats are controlling the language and images in the healthcare debate, which has contributed to the Party’s success in moving the legislation forward. This week, Democrats continue to show they are making all of the right communications moves on healthcare. Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) unveiled the cost of the Senate’s proposed bill ... READ MORE

California, which often serves as a regulatory and legislative bellwether for the rest of the country, is seeking to blaze a new trail in environmental enforcement. “Ground truthing,” as it has come to be known, consists of recruiting community volunteers to recognize and report potential environmental hazards. State regulators have scheduled a discussion next month about formally enacting the idea as ... READ MORE

In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs' attorneys for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today we talk to William A. Birdthistle, Assistant Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law who filed an amicus brief for more than 20 law professors supporting the plaintiffs in Jones v. Harris Associates. That 2004 case ... READ MORE