Category Archives: strategic communication

2013 NATO Strategic Communications Conference

Posted on June 6, 2013 by albanyadmin

Albany recently spent a couple of days at the annual NATO Strategic Communications Conference in Riga, Latvia, where the overarching theme, as as at the Comprehensive Communication Masterclass, was centred around narrative. A timely talking point was, inevitably, the current … Continue reading →

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Licence to Operate: Today’s Corporate Issues in Challenging Environments

Posted on April 23, 2013 by albanyadmin

The events of 16-20 January 2013 at the In Amenas industrial plant in Algeria, during which almost 50 people lost their lives, have thrown a stark spotlight upon the very essence of any company’s ‘licence to operate’ in troubled parts … Continue reading →

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CCMC13: New Name, Same Brilliant Substance

Posted on April 16, 2013 by albanyadmin

In late March, 20 delegates from Afghanistan, Belgium, Congo, Kosovo, Lebanon, Somalia, the US, and the odd Brit, from major institutions such as NATO and the UN, converged at Madingley Hall, Cambridge, to attend the annual Albany Comprehensive Communications Masterclass. … Continue reading →

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The Evolution of Political Communications

Posted on April 15, 2013 by albanyadmin

April has seen the passing of the first break-through figure in terms of political communications, Margaret Thatcher.  She was the first Prime Minister to employ media managers to help shape her image and the Conservative Party was the first British … Continue reading →

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International Day of the Woman

Posted on March 8, 2013 by albanyadmin

Here’s to a day of and for women.  We lament the dire circumstances many women face around the globe, from sex trafficking to limited access to education to the obscene numbers of rape across college campuses in America.  Throughout history … Continue reading →

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Haselock talks Mali

Posted on January 24, 2013 by albanyadmin

On SKY News, Simon Haselock of Albany explains how a more nuanced and intelligent approach, based upon the principles of comprehensive communications, could be applied to dealing with geo-political and security issues in Mali and the Maghreb. The lessons are … Continue reading →

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Are you game?

Posted on October 9, 2012 by albanyadmin

The global gaming industry is worth in the region of $75 billion per year.  It blows Hollywood out of the water and, with a multilingual capability, is truly global.  Just consider Travian.  With over 5 million players this Roman empire … Continue reading →

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Comprehensive Communications: Winning hearts and minds is about persuasion

Posted on October 3, 2012 by albanyadmin

Comprehensive Communications or communicating comprehensively? My God, this is the end of diplomacy!” So Lord Palmerston apparently retorted when the first telegram was delivered to his desk in the 1840s. Certainly as far as he had known it until then … Continue reading →

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Technology is Easy, Community is Hard

Posted on August 15, 2012 by albanyadmin

Smart codes, Ushahidi, humanitarian dashboards, TERA, microtasking, geotagging, SMS broadcast, the list goes on, but the question is – just how much technology do we need?  When a disaster or crisis strikes in the information age the answer seems to … Continue reading →

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21st Century Peacekeeping

Posted on August 3, 2012 by albanyadmin

“It’s not a question of how new technologies may revolutionise peacekeeping but how they have already revolutionised the civil wars, coups and insurgencies such as we have seen in the Arab Spring” Simon Haselock Wired UK consults Albany over the … Continue reading →

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