Cision

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Social media offers unique marketing and PR opportunities. As much as social media followers love to praise your brand, they won’t hesitate to criticize your actions if they have a good reason. When a PR crisis hits, confusion, anxiety, and chaos can shake up your organization. pic.twitter.com/rF5gNIvVd0.

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5W PR

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Rebuilding trust after a crisis is one of the most challenging tasks a business can face. Customers, stakeholders, and employees may all feel betrayed, making it difficult to regain their confidence. This guide outlines key steps to restoring trust and rebuilding a brands reputation through crisis management and PR.

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Ronn Torossian

MARCH 9, 2020

In today’s social-media-powered communication, brands constantly face challenges associated with negative publicity. With stories gaining traction rapidly, brands have found themselves dealing with widespread backlash due to failing to deliver on their promises, mistreating employees or delivering a faulty product to the market.

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5W PR

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In crisis management , PR assumes a pivotal role. Developing a well-thought-out crisis communication plan, maintaining transparency and honesty, effectively utilizing social media, managing media relations, and engaging with stakeholders are all essential for navigating crises and minimizing reputational damage.

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5W PR

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Recent data shows that 54% of small businesses have experienced a crisis that threatened their survival, yet only 23% had a formal communication plan in place. This guide provides practical strategies for small business owners to build and execute crisis communication plans that work with limited resources.

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Melissa Agnes

AUGUST 26, 2014

Adam Schefter recently stirred up some controversy by tweeting the following: Great line from @johnreporters on young people’s decisions in social-media age: “It’s time for common sense to catch up with technology.” Do you think that young people are mostly at fault for the mishaps we commonly see on social?

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Melissa Agnes

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Let me paint you a picture: It’s early morning and your social media monitors catch wind that Twitter is beginning to populate with tweets against your organization. While your team gets to the route of the problem, the clock continues to tick and the news of the crisis continues to spread. Sound like a nightmare?

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5W PR

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

A crisis—whether it’s a product recall, data breach, or public relations disaster—can erode trust, damage sales, and potentially lead to business failure. However, with a well-crafted crisis management plan and effective public relations strategies, organizations can mitigate the damage and emerge stronger than before.

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5W PR

JANUARY 18, 2025

A public relations crisis can strike any organization at any time, threatening to erode hard-earned trust, damage its brand reputation, and even jeopardize its very existence. However, a crisis doesn’t have to be a death knell. Monitor social media, news outlets, and other channels for feedback, concerns, and questions.

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PRSay

MARCH 9, 2017

To be an expert in crisis communications you have to move your organization at the speed of Twitter when “it” hits the fan. In short order, it was followed a barrage of requests from media asking to use the footage. Social media is your competition. It’s time to face the music. Within minutes he posted a video to the web.

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5W PR

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Crisis management in the defense technology sector requires meticulous planning, precise execution, and constant readiness. When a crisis hits, organizations must respond swiftly and effectively to protect their reputation, maintain stakeholder trust, and minimize potential damage.

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Melissa Agnes

MARCH 20, 2014

One Friday morning, CEO & Co-founder of AppFirst, David Roth, was woken at 2am to a crisis that threatened the organization’s reputation and, ultimately, their profitability. How David chose to manage this crisis is what saved the company from any and all negative press and any loss on their bottom line. What made you do so?

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Agility PR Solutions

JUNE 23, 2024

As negative headlines begin to dominate news outlets, social media buzzes with speculation, and phones ring incessantly with concerned stakeholders from an organization engulfed in crisis. The situation starts threatening the company’s reputation, financial stability, and employee morale.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 30, 2024

News coverage fuels social media; but increasingly, social media fuels the news; shaping opinion on social media boils down to authenticity, experience and customer service More consumers trust social media for information than other conventional sources, including traditional news, business and government.

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Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Crisis communication is one of the most important aspects of your crisis management. In fact, whom you communicate with in a crisis, along with when and how you communicate with them, can mean the difference between successful crisis management and crisis management failure. Step 1: Identify your stakeholders.

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Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Although it’s been reported that Pizza Hut released the below official statement in response, I myself did not come across any communications by Pizza Hut, whether on their corporate website or social media channels. Is this a crisis or an issue? won’t be in crisis. appeared first on Agnes + Day.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Employees are in charge. But in 2022, employee engagement will be the new recruitment. This bodes well for PR professionals who focus in employee and community relations. The effortless in-app purchase experience is particularly attractive to Gen-Z shoppers, for whom social media is a top source of shopping inspiration.

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5W PR

MARCH 18, 2025

Managing a public relations crisis in health technology requires careful planning, swift action, and clear communication to protect both patient safety and organizational reputation. This includes identifying key spokespersons, developing message templates, and maintaining updated media contact lists.

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Onclusive

MARCH 31, 2021

A communications crisis can be one of the most difficult situations in your career. Crisis preparedness, internal education and having the right tools can aid you before a crisis hits. Crisis situations require research so that you can address the circumstance thoughtfully, and multi-channel rapid response.

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Onclusive

APRIL 22, 2021

The best way to prepare for a crisis is to invest in a crisis communications response and management program. In a time of crisis, communicators need to act decisively and quickly with transparent responses. However, with structure, you can put together an effective crisis communications plan. Expect the unexpected.

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Cision

JUNE 20, 2015

When you listen to conversations about your brand on social media, take note of the frequency of negative comments and the topics associated with such sentiments. However, not every pessimistic tweet or Facebook rant should be treated like a major crisis. Prepare yourself for a social media crisis.

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Agility PR Solutions

JUNE 8, 2021

The consequences for mismanaging communications during an unfortunate situation can cost companies millions, employees their careers, and even ostracization from social media. The post Avoid ‘Cancel Culture’ with this crisis PR checklist appeared first on Agility PR Solutions. That […].

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Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

You have a responsibility to your customers, clients, members, employees and even to your organization to take this initiative. How to minimize the risk of a data breach crisis. If so, how secure it your email service provider and are your employees required to change their passwords regularly? Tweet this!). Until it does.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 4, 2022

Yes, social media pushback can be constructive, yet it often spins out of control. The companies that pledged support for female employees after the Dobbs decision, for example, are expressing an authentic position in response to court ruling that will affect millions. Don’t over-delegate social content.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Remote work will be a permanent option for many employees, and all internal and externally focused campaigns must be fully digital. We’ll see lots of new ideas and platforms for customer and employee communications and a continued mainstreaming of tactics like live digital events, podcasting, and real-time chat for routine programs.

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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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5W PR

JANUARY 22, 2025

What starts as a single negative comment or review can spread across social networks within minutes, potentially damaging a brand’s reputation before teams even know there’s a problem. Social media amplifies both positive and negative messages, making swift, strategic crisis management more critical than ever.

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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.

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Melissa Agnes

MAY 22, 2014

Clearly indicate when to jump in and respond and when to escalate the situation to the crisis management team. Determine the necessary actions that need to be taken (whether it needs a response, to simply be monitored or to be escalated to the crisis team). a crisis) and means to your organization. Social media guidelines.

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Onclusive

AUGUST 22, 2017

Far from just managing a digital Rolodex, landing earned media in publications that resonate with target audiences is only one small part of the earned-media mix. Owned Media/Content Strategy. Internal communicators must be savvy enough to turn dry content like company policies into info employees actually want to read.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 3, 2016

In the wake of these tragedies, what’s the appropriate social media behavior? If we were to stop our social postings for every event, we’d literally never be able to post on social media again. If an incident occurs in our hometown, obviously be sure our employees, loved ones, etc. Christopher S.

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Melissa Agnes

MAY 1, 2014

Editor’s Note: Rick Amme is a talented crisis management professional who, after decades of being “in the game”, has decided to embark on his next life adventure: retirement. Crisis Management Advice from a Retiring Pro. Be sure employees, shareholders, boards, customers, suppliers, etc. Food for Thought'

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Melissa Agnes

MARCH 7, 2014

Today’s reality is that people think about sharing their experiences to social media, even before they think about dialling 911 for help in an emergency. It’s also true that Twitter (and other social media platforms) need to be a part of your crisis communications strategy. Image credit .

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5W PR

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Social media has fundamentally changed how brands face public scrutiny and criticism. What starts as a single tweet can snowball into a full-blown crisis within hours, putting organizations at risk of significant reputational damage. Research shows that 63% of a company’s market value is attributed to its reputation.

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Onclusive

JUNE 1, 2023

Social media listening is fast becoming an essential part of the PR and Comms toolkit. Forward-thinking brands are already embracing the strategic advantages that social listening tools can offer when it comes to managing brand reputation, crisis detection, and optimising comms strategy.

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Critical Mention

APRIL 17, 2019

Today, nearly 90 percent of companies are using social media marketing and Dreamgrow reports over 60 percent of customers expect companies to offer customer service through their social channels. To help you create your social media marketing strategy, we have 15 of the top social media trends you need to follow in 2019!

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PRSay

APRIL 7, 2020

Based on surveys conducted on March 6–10 in 10 countries, the research shows the following: Employees trust employer communications. 19, found that employees trust their employers far more than they trust governments or news media. And 62 percent of respondents trust their employers to respond to the crisis effectively.

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