Prohibition

JANUARY 24, 2022

Having a crisis communication plan in place ahead of time reduces confusion, ensures an effective communication flow, and improves messaging timeliness during or after a crisis. The basics of good crisis communications are the same for every company. What causes a crisis to go viral?

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Prohibition

JANUARY 17, 2022

Social media is an increasingly important element in a successful crisis management approach. With the recent increase in the use of social media in crisis situations, organisations across all sectors need to understand the benefits of incorporating it into their crisis plan. What is Crisis Management?

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Cision

MARCH 30, 2016

Not every company needs to hire a PR firm to manage its crisis communication. If you’ve got a solid marketing team, you can build your own DIY plan to ensure that if there ever is a PR crisis that threatens your business, you can keep it contained and prevent it from doing further damage. Tip 4: Assemble Your Crisis Team.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 15, 2018

Social media has redefined crisis response in three important ways: outlet options, messaging speed and employee engagement. The proliferation of new media outlets has changed everything about how companies communicate. Employee evangelists are made, not born. A Reason to Speak. Those days are so over! A Reason to Speak.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 15, 2018

A crisis situation presents abundant challenges for public relations and business leaders, not the least of which are the critical first communications. Five crisis PR first responses. Facebook dodges blame. The final paragraph of a March 30 follow-up blog stands out as a piece of sincere communication.

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Melissa Agnes

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

While your team gets to the route of the problem, the clock continues to tick and the news of the crisis continues to spread. Put the crisis to bed as quickly as possible, while suffering the least amount of negative repercussions to the organization’s reputation and bottom line. The reality is that a crisis is a nightmare.

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Cision

AUGUST 30, 2016

A few years ago, many of us would not have envisioned a world where Twitter, Facebook Live and large-scale community gatherings would have such an impact on the way crises develop. Yet, this is our world today and our “new normal” as communicators and crisis management teams. This isn’t the Communications Only Club.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Imagine Facebook without Mark Zuckerberg, or Tesla without Elon Musk. According to Paul Argenti, a professor of corporate communication at Dartmouth College, such visibility can be a critical component of effective strategy execution. The post Why CEO Visibility Still Counts appeared first on Crenshaw Communications.

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PRSay

MAY 26, 2020

As hospitals and health care services gradually reopen in the coming weeks and months, communications and PR professionals will be helping patients, caregivers and staff adjust to the new normal after COVID-19. For communicators, the challenge is to help people feel comfortable about returning to their doctors and hospital services.

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Melissa Agnes

AUGUST 13, 2014

It worries me when crisis communication professionals are still advising their clients to avoid social media in a crisis. Social media presents so many powerful opportunities to communicate and build trusting relationships with your audiences. Braud says: “Stop trying to fight the crisis on social media.”

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Stephen Waddington

JULY 3, 2022

Public relations academics and practitioners explored a diverse range of societal and communication issues at BledCom. The event was pitched as a reboot of internal and external communication for stakeholders. We need an environmental-type standard for communication,” he said. It’s good to be back in Bled.

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Stephen Waddington

MARCH 29, 2020

I’m muddling through the COVID-19 crisis, just like you, but I am starting to think about what might come next. Is it possible to have a good crisis? My wife shared a post on Facebook with me last night. It followed support from the Treasury for large employees a week ago. Human beings are incredibly adaptable.

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Cision

JUNE 20, 2015

However, not every pessimistic tweet or Facebook rant should be treated like a major crisis. Check out these three levels of risk to determine when you need to call your crisis communication team to your side. Prepare yourself for a social media crisis. 1. Low-Level.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 25, 2017

Over the weekend, Twitter and Facebook lit up with smartphone videos of a fresh instance of passenger distress on an airplane. The post American Airlines Soars Through A Potential Crisis appeared first on Crenshaw Communications. Other companies, both within and outside of the airline industry, should take note.

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Prohibition

JANUARY 14, 2022

Are you prepared for a PR crisis? Whether it’s a product recall, staff injury becoming public news or something else entirely, a PR crisis can happen to any business. Businesses of all shapes and sizes can fall victim to a PR crisis at any time. What is a PR Crisis? What is a PR Crisis Plan?

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Melissa Agnes

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Editor’s Note: This is a great blog post that gives you an overview of what you can do, right now, to prevent a crisis. A social media manager loses their temper in a customer service post on Facebook. But, are they a crisis? How to avoid a public relations crisis. Facebook isn’t Twitter, right?

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NewsWhip

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Last Wednesday, just one day after plans for the company to go public hit the wires, the Better.com CEO Vishal Garg shocked the world when he fired 900 employees on a Zoom call, and the apology he’s given since then has actually done little to help. Media and Public interest to articles about Better.com CEO firing employees.

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Cision

MARCH 28, 2016

A crisis can strike your brand at any moment on any social media platform. And no matter the scenario — data breach, employee scandal or hashtag hijacking — your brand will almost immediately find itself under scrutiny. Don’t let a crisis catch you unprepared! So how can your brand share its side of the story?

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PRSay

APRIL 8, 2020

Executives around the globe are facing a daunting task: leading their teams and organizations during the COVID-19 crisis. During any crisis, the well-being of employees is always paramount, especially now, as both health and budgetary factors are colliding. Leading teams from afar.

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Prohibition

JANUARY 7, 2022

Crisis management is something every company needs to implement as part of its business processes. Without a documented plan, how would you handle a crisis? If you think you could never be the victim of a crisis, think again. If you think you could never be the victim of a crisis, think again. What is a crisis?

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PRSay

JANUARY 6, 2021

During the pandemic, economic crisis, racial tensions and partisan arguments that have marked 2020, we have started communicating differently. In fact, according to Dr. Vincent Covello of the Center for Risk Communication, stress can decrease people’s ability to process information by up to 80 percent. Our brains on stress.

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Barokas

MARCH 16, 2020

Widespread social distancing and remote work has challenged all of us to pause and evaluate how we communicate, operate and manage projects in the workplace. It’s also caused many companies to refocus their PR, marketing and communications plans. Barokas Communications Team. Stay well, stay safe, stay sane, stay home.

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PRSay

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

We may not think about it that way — we’re simply drafting a memo to employees or writing the president’s message for an annual report. As PR professionals, it’s our job to help executives communicate their ideas, plans and priorities in their own voices. In this low-trust environment, communication from the C-suite must be authentic.

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MaccaPR

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Here’s a question for PR and marketing pros: Which was the most significant corporate communications cri sis recently ? and Pepsi’s “ Black Lives Matter’’ TV ad bungle with Kendall Jenner – it would be easy to miss one of the smaller yet most portentous PR crisis of this year: The CrossFit Gym Member-Shaming Instagram Fail.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

CEOs and business leaders are increasingly recognizing the value of corporate communications; investors say comms can increase company valuations. This week I paused to catch up on reading several other PR and corporate communications surveys that I haven’t had a chance to read yet and summarize them here for you.

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Critical Mention

AUGUST 20, 2020

As PR pros work from home, now is a good time for them to sharpen their communication and public relations skills through educational resources. Even though many public meetings, events and conferences have been canceled, communication is still evolving. Share Tweet Share. PR Week Webinars. Talk Like Ted. PRSSA Webinars.

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David PR Group

MARCH 16, 2020

The main one: If VRBO, which is owned by Expedia, doesn’t fully refund travelers impacted by COVID-19, the brand will likely not survive this crisis. Right now, most businesses are up to their antibodies in operational and human resources issues, but you also need to remember to communicate with your customers. –John.

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PRSay

MARCH 23, 2018

As a corporate communicator who, like others, nervously and helplessly watched the water rise, I learned about the parallels that can be drawn between the historic flood and how companies respond to their own crises. Similarly, companies can anticipate many of the resources they’ll need if a crisis strikes. Find your allies.

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Melissa Agnes

JULY 19, 2016

When Diamond Reynolds used her cell phone and Facebook Live to live-stream the unfortunate situation she found herself in, mere minutes after her boyfriend, Philando Castile, was fatally shot by a police officer, there was no stopping what would happen next. Can live-streaming be leveraged to your crisis management advantage?

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Barokas

MAY 31, 2018

In the age of nearly constant public relations nightmares (we’re looking at you, Facebook ), any PR person worth their salt knows the value of a good crisis communications plan. The next, and perhaps most important, step in crisis planning is to put your well-laid plans to the test. Credit: WiffleGif. Want to try it out?

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Communications Conversations

APRIL 17, 2020

Those who went quiet and were going through the crisis communications playbook when it came to content on social channels. Best Buy shares CEO video message initially aimed at employees on LinkedIn. Walmart uses employee-generated content to thank front-line workers. It’s been fascinating to watch. Very transparent.

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PR in High Definition

OCTOBER 28, 2021

One of the tech stories that really caught my eye this month is Facebook’s focus on developing the metaverse. Could this be the Facebook vision? What it means to communicate in the metaverse. When I think of the metaverse, I immediately imagine the OASIS from Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One, one of my favourite sci-fi novels.

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Wadds Inc.

JULY 3, 2022

Public relations academics and practitioners explored a diverse range of societal and communication issues at BledCom. The event was pitched as a reboot of internal and external communication for stakeholders. We need an environmental-type standard for communication,” he said. It’s good to be back in Bled.

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Prakkypedia

JANUARY 19, 2020

This piece is based on a Facebook and LinkedIn post I recently published: Communication is vital during emergencies such as the catastrophic bushfires being experienced around Australia. Take a break from ABC 24 or the radio or indeed, Facebook updates. However, this can be tricky to manage on a personal level.

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PR in High Definition

MAY 28, 2019

Meanwhile, Google has had a succession of incidents involving pay-outs to the executive accused of sexual assault, followed by a global walkout, and more recently, reports that the firm retaliated against two of the female employees who organised the walkout. The fall out of an employee crisis is longer lasting than a few bad articles.

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Landis PR

APRIL 29, 2024

According to the people of Finland, communications is the world’s most powerful tool for change. For us, communications is the world’s most powerful tool for change. It is not advisable to have an employee of a communications firm present in the interview situation. million users Facebook : 3.59

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Melissa Agnes

APRIL 4, 2016

This doesn’t account for any other tweets using different hashtags, tweets that didn’t use any hashtags, Facebook posts, news articles, blog posts, Instagram posts – or anything else that was published and shared online in the hours and days following the terrorist attack. sent me the following wonderful message.

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