Faking it for the News
Nicole writes on crisis communications and social media for the Firebrand Talent blog: In what will almost certainly shock to your core — insert sarcasm here — your social networks have been cheating on you too. Those people on Instagram? Not born with it. Angles. Filters. Lighting. Experts on Twitter? Mostly self-appointed.
Named 1of 10 Best Female Business Bloggers!
I was thrilled to be named as 1 of 10 best female business bloggers by ‘Self Thrive’ recently.
The Australian Crime Terror Nexus
My latest article for Security Solutions Magazine explores the crime-terror terrain in Australia. Australian civil-military think tank Info Ops HQ recently published its inaugural report from its open-source investigation into Australian Foreign Fighters and Domestic Actors. What it found was local evidence supporting the global trend of criminal and antisocial
The year we fell down the rabbit hole
“ The Rabbit took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on. Alice started to her feet – she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field
Communicate solutions instead of excuses during a crisis
This article first appeared – with permission – on the Firebrand Talent blog. Communicating solutions is a well known, tried and tested content marketing strategy. It works because people engage with content that provides them with information that is useful and solves a challenge they are experiencing. So why when a crisis
Tracking Australian ISIS members on social media
I spoke with the Sydney Morning Herald about how Info Ops HQ's OSINT investigation found that Prakash was alive as early as July/August 2016- even after the US and Australian Governments declared him killed in an April airstrike.