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Twitter, Photos and Your Crisis Communications

Melissa Agnes

But what does it mean for your crisis communications and overall risk? So, what does this mean for your organization in terms or risk and crisis communications opportunities? The crisis communications opportunity: This can be beneficial for your crisis communications if you’re collaborating with third parties.

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When Designing Controls Around Your Crisis Communications, Don’t Do This!

Melissa Agnes

One of the challenges of communicating effectively in times of viral issue and crisis management is ensuring that your brand’s communications are consistent across every stakeholder group, region and department. Crisis communication is complex, dynamic and critically important to get right.

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5 Steps to Becoming a Crisis Communication Pro

Melissa Agnes

Can any organization be a crisis communication pro? Being crisis-ready, crisis-intelligent, isn’t a mysterious quality that only a few people or organizations possess. So what would it take for your organization, your team, to be considered a crisis communication pro? Absolutely, why not?

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Free Webinar: Crisis Management in the 21st Century – Are You Ready?

Melissa Agnes

Crises unfold in real-time today and no matter where your next crisis originates, one thing is for sure: it absolutely, positively will unfold online. But with the speed at which a crisis unfolds and can go viral, how can your crisis team be expected to get ahead of the story, before the story is ahead of you?

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Managing Crises with Visual Content

Melissa Agnes

For example, a visual crisis (an explosion, a natural disaster, people being injured or falling ill, etc.) has big potential these days to go viral in a heartbeat. So what does the reality of “visual content being epic” mean for your crisis plan? Crisis and Issues Management Crisis Communications Food for Thought'

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Lesson From Facebook: 5 Tips on Handling Crisis Communications

Shift Communications

Crisis communications is the opposite of traditional public relations and involves putting out a “ fire ” of some sort. In most cases when a company is faced with a crisis they often mess up the initial response. Most recently, Facebook just experienced the classic example of a crisis communications case study.

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TCIP #032 – The National Weather Service’s Crisis Communication Strategy with Daniel Noah

Melissa Agnes

This episode of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast discusses: What data mining is and how the NWS uses it to monitor the social sphere for important feedback, warning signs and more. The NWS’s strategy for dealing with doomsday photos that tend to go viral in natural disasters and put people in panic mode.