The best crisis guidance in existence can't actually certify you.

A clause-by-clause reading of ISO 22361, 22301 and 31000 finds the standard with the deepest crisis communication guidance is also the one nobody can be audited against — and none of the three has a plan for infodemics or AI.

Jul 15, 2026

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Overturn This: what FIFA's Balogun mess teaches communicators.

A reversed red card, a presidential phone call, and Iran's viral Lego propaganda are all running the same geopolitical script—and every one of them is a lesson for anyone managing a technical or disciplinary process.

Jul 8, 2026

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Polycrisis

When AI hacks AI: inside the disclosure that turned a breach into a safety story

A case study in attribution timing, third-party validation, and the vocabulary gap crisis teams don't have yet for agentic AI incidents.

Jul 23, 2026

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Three ways AI starts a crisis — and only one of them involves AI failing

IBM's Calculus of AI Sovereignty study puts numbers on a crisis type your response plans probably don't cover.

Jul 1, 2026

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Polycrisis – You can't stop the shock. You can stop the spread.

What power-grid engineers know about containing a crisis before it spreads.

Jun 24, 2026

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22 crisis case studies, three frameworks, one wiki

I built a public wiki for crisis communication. Here's why, and how you can add to it.

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The wall that runs your crisis response when no one else can.

How a Japanese city replaced a 100-page manual with 27 cards — and what I built next.

Jun 11, 2026

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Your AI system fails tomorrow. What do you say? The humanitarian sector just published the governance framework the private sector should have built first.

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The risks hurting organisations most aren't on their risk registers.

What 12 global risk reports actually found and what it means for crisis communicators.

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