If you don’t subscribe to The Holmes Report, and you are a communicator, Paul’s latest issue is worth the annual subscription. Go get it. He zeroes in on "Ten Communications Lessons from the Shameful Mismanagement of Katrina" – every one of them a good one. In the interests of copyright I’m not going to repeat them…

I wonder how many companies in Silicon Valley have crisis plans in place to accommodate a similar scale of tragedy…?