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Twitter’s Growth Rate is Diminishing. What Does this Mean for your Crisis Communications?

Melissa Agnes

Twitter is the social media platform that dominates the dissemination of news, updates and discussions in a crisis. Twitter also reported that they had 54 million active users at the end of 2013. So what does this mean for your crisis communications? What does it mean to make your crisis communications Twitter-friendly?

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A Look At Academic Research on Crisis Communication From #AEJMC14

Melissa Agnes

I’m always interested in seeing what’s being studied in universities these days, as well as the academic’s approach to the theoretical side of crisis communication, and so this day of observation and interaction was very fascinating for me. In terms of the crisis communication research.

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“Social Media Crisis” and Other Buzzwords that Need to Go

Melissa Agnes

Melissa’s #1 despised buzzword: Social media crisis. The fact of the matter is that a crisis is a crisis. The definition of a crisis: A negative situation / event that threatens to have long-term repercussions on the organization’s reputation and/or bottom line. So let’s call it like it is!

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What You Don’t Know About Malaysia Airlines and How They’ve Handled the Crisis of Flight MH370

Melissa Agnes

By Judith Delaney, Attorney and member of Agnes + Day’s Crisis Intelligence Team. did go into effect on November 15, 2013. Better understanding the crisis of flight MH370. Yet, in this digital age, their handling of this unprecedented crisis has been criticized over and over again.

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TCIP #049 – What Makes a Good Crisis Message with Karen Freberg and Kristin Saling

Melissa Agnes

Welcome to episode #049 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes, Karen Freberg and Kristin Saling. They recently conducted a research study to determine the characteristics and attributes that make a good crisis communication message on social media. Subscribe to The Crisis Intelligence Podcast!

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Five Ways to Optimize Your Social Networks for Crisis Communication

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you can expect only a small fraction of your potential audience will ever receive your communication, much less act upon it. In a crisis you may find yourself in a situation where rather than pushing information out to influencers, media and customers, instead they are attempting to pull information from you. Impatience.

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6 Best Practices for Identifying and Reacting to a PR Crisis

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Crisis communication is an important aspect of most PR roles. In the Journal of Marketing Management, a group of British researchers write that crisis communication has “implications for brand equity and consumers’ purchase intentions.” Identifying a PR crisis. Note: not everything is a crisis.

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