Communications Consultant specializing in emergency communications techniques, social media and news media relations.
Our mission: to provide our clients with effective crisis communications and emergency information training, advice and coordination, using social media.
Our expertise: crisis communications and emergency information training, coordination and advice. Integrating social media to reach all audiences promptly and effectively.
Services
- specialists in emergency communications
- training in the use of social media in emergency events.
- training in news media relations operations
- emergency communications exercise design
- strategic communication planning
- event planning
Principal
For 33 years of public service, Barry Radford worked extensively in public sector from field operations to central office providing strategic communications advice to senior management and ministers of the provincial cabinet.
Barry served as a senior communications advisor for the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, responsible for strategic communications planning for Fish & Wildlife, Enforcement, Great Lakes Management Units, Water Resources, and Aviation, Forest Fire and Emergency Services (AFFES).
Projects have spanned the full spectrum of publicly sensitive issues dealing with land use planning to critical public health and safety issues such as invasion of invasive species to community evacuation preparations due to forest fires and flood events.
Recent projects
- Barry Radford & Associates have worked with the Association of Fire Chiefs of Canada to advance crisis and emergency communications practices on the Partners towards Safer Communities (PTSC-Online) website.
- Barry has served as G8/G20 Provincial Media Spokesperson for the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (June 2010).
- Deployed as a Fire Information Officer to British Columbia wildfires (September 2009).
- A guest lecturer on emergency communications at:
- Canadian Emergency Management College, Ottawa
- Ryerson University, Toronto
Areas of Interest:
* Developing a team of public information staff, who are trained, exercised and capable of responding to any emergency or crisis.
* Utilizing effective traditional and social media tools during emergency situations.
Contact Information:
| 388 Indian Trail, | Phone: 705 789-3191 |
| Huntsville Ontario, P1H 1Y9 | Cell: 705 783-284 |
1 Comment
Congratulations on your retirement and launch into your new communications advisor career. There is most certainly a need for folks with your capabilities as the already challenging task of communicating effectively has become even more complex with the advent of social media.
Thank you also for your contribution to the PTSC-Online "Advancing Crisis and Emergency Communications Practices" project.
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