Converged Crises: Noxious Actors and Guerrilla Information Warfare
With information disorder cascading through contemporary crises, understanding risk in a new way has become a critical skill for those …
Author: Nicole Matejic
Nicole is an internationally recognised and trusted authority on navigating national security, crisis and emergency management challenges in an environment of converged threat and risk. Highly regarded for her military information operations (IO and information warfare) and social media acumen, particularly in open source and social intelligence, digital diplomacy and use of communication technologies in radicalisation and emergencies - Nicole is a regular instructor for and speaker to NATO. Nicole is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Southern Queensland, where she is researching the path to jihad. Her thesis ‘The Jihadi Nudge’ is a multidisciplinary body of work that investigates how terrorist organisations use behavioural economics models of choice architecture (or decision science) to radicalise individuals. Nicole is an Adjunct Lecturer at Charles Sturt University in the School of National Security and Terrorism.
Influence Wars
This article is based on a presentation I delivered as part of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s (ASPI) War in …
Strawberry Terrorism: Why ISIS are interested in Australia’s Strawberry Crisis
With no primary saboteur yet in custody over the insertion of needles into fresh Australian strawberries, ISIS have published a …
Are you rolling out the Crisis red carpet with your surveys?
The universal law of surveys is: everyone promoting a survey thinks they’re great and everyone receiving a request to complete …
The power of info ops for-good campaigns
The term ‘information operations’ – or ‘info ops’ – is usually used in a military context. In more recent times …
In a crisis? Don’t do these 7 things. Ever.
When organizations and individuals find themselves in crisis, what you do in the first 24 hours is critical to how events …
Don’t newsjack your way in to crisis on social media
SEO pundits will tell you that one of the best ways to drive traffic to your site is to blog about trending …
On the Defence Connect Podcast: The Art of Influence
This week on the Defence Connect Podcast, social media expert Nicole Matejic joins us to discuss the growing influence of …
7 ways to ensure you remain objective during a Crisis
This blog was first published on the Firebrand Talent website. When your client or organisation’s values differ significantly to your own, how …
Are you damaging your communications career with short termism?
This blog was first published on the Firebrand Talent blog in a regular series on crisis communications by Nicole. The …