One of the workshops at our CIP Conference 2017 on 16 June 2017 at University of Lisbon – Faculdade de Psicologia.
Note: Tom Compaijen is repeating this workshop as a CIP Webinar on 22 February 2018 at 6pm (Brussels time) Register here to attend this webinar.
In this workshop I will review the white heroin warning campaign from the City of Amsterdam (2015 – 2016). I was communication advisor in the crisis team. In a short time period 3 tourist died and 20 where in life threatening situations because a drug dealer sold extremely dangerous white heroin as cocaine to tourists. The city of Amsterdam organized a warning campaign using all different kind of communication methods from big light boards to social media and peer to peer. With a complex network of stakeholders we reached people in countries all over Europe, Australia and the United States.
The campaign got world wide attention, even The Washington Post headline said: ‘This is what a sane drug policy looks like.’ The campaign was nominated for best communication project in The Netherlands.
In the workshop I will discuss the whole case from begin to end, the dilemma’s of the crisis team, the way we used social media networks to communicate with a difficult to reach target audience and the results and outcome of the whole crisis project.
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Tom Compaijen is former advisor crisis communication from the City of Amsterdam, currently owner of Compaijen C&C
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