The Cleveland International Film Festival – Wednesday, March 30 thru Sunday, April 17
You Don’t Have to Live in Cleveland to Attend the Cleveland International Film Festival Are you tired of what’s offered on Netflix, HBO and Prime? The 46th Annual Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF46) will take place March 30 – April 9, 2022 at its new home at Playhouse Square in downtown Cleveland, followed by CIFF46 […]
Do You Have a Few Minutes to Spare?
The Best Super Bowl Commercials of All Time The Drum Go ahead, argue amongst yourselves. All of the 2022 Super Bowl Commercials Parade Local News Reporter’s Resurfaced Deadpan Analysis of February Goes Viral In a video that only Lou Grant would love (though he’d never let you know it), this St. Louis reporter has no […]
For Spotify, ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ is an Object Lesson In Fumbling Crisis Communications
Thom Fladung, Hennes Communications Spotify, the streaming service that provides music and podcasts to hundreds of millions of users, has lately been providing a different service: A guide to mishandling a reputational crisis. For almost a month now, Spotify has lurched from one thorny situation to another centered on the popular “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, […]
Don’t Let Ransomware Attackers Hold Your Communications Hostage, Too
By Thom Fladung/Hennes Communications In 1989, the first episode of “The Simpsons” aired. The Berlin Wall came down. And during the World Health Organization’s AIDS conference, one of the first documented ransomware attacks occurred – distributed via floppy disk. A mailing list of 20,000 doctors and AIDS researchers received a floppy disk that was supposed […]
The Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why
From the archives, and still powerful, Deborah Tannen, writing in The Harvard Business Review… The head of a large division of a multinational corporation was running a meeting devoted to performance assessment. Each senior manager stood up, reviewed the individuals in his group, and evaluated them for promotion. Although there were women in every group, […]
Lawyers & Outrage Management – What Can Outrage Management Offer the Legal Process?
In the last issue of this newsletter, we brought to you Part #1 of an article written by Dr. Peter Sandman titled Lawyers and Outrage Management – Why Do Attorneys Usually Dislike Outrage Management? You can read that article here. We hope you agree that this article is still very much on-point and relevant, with lessons […]
Why Misinformation Persists and Thrives: The “Grand Conflict Against Scheming Enemies”
by Howard Fencl, Hennes Communications Hat’s off to Max Fisher of the New York Times for settling a question roiling dinner tables and family rooms across the country in this ceaseless topsy-turvy age of misinformation: How on earth can people believe the outlandish viral nonsense that persists and thrives on social media? Child sex trafficking […]
Lawyers & Outrage Management – Why Do Attorneys Usually Dislike Outrage Management?
Regular readers of this newsletter know that one of our favorite writers and consultants is Dr. Peter M. Sandman. Creator of the “Risk = Hazard + Outrage” formula for risk communication, Peter Sandman is one of the preeminent risk communication speakers and consultants in the United States today, and has also worked extensively in Europe, […]
THE LAST SHOW – 27 Entertainers on the Disbelief and Despair that Took Over When Covid-19 Shut Down Their World.
Introduction by Bruce Hennes, Hennes Communications On February 12, 2020, we posted an article, Law Firms and Bar Associations Must Plan Now for Coronavirus Outbreak, in the National Law Review. We wrote a similar article that same week, aimed at a general business audience, for Crain’s Cleveland Business. Friends, colleagues and clients thought we were […]
Is Fighting Fake Videos Mission Impossible? No, But Tom Cruise Fakes Show Online Threats Rising
By Thom Fladung, Hennes Communications Deepfake videos have been making news and shaking up people who worry about truth and fact for several years now. The recent release of Tom Cruise deepfakes on Tik Tok shows the technology has reached a new, disquieting level of realism. Chris Ume, the visual effects artist behind the Cruise […]