PR Fuel

MARCH 25, 2025

One negative news cycle, a viral social media backlash, or a product failure can undo years of hard-earned trust. Without a crisis PR strategy in place, your business could face lasting reputational and fi… Read more The post When Does Your Brand Need Crisis PR? appeared first on eReleases.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The voracious appetite for viral stories on social platforms will assure plenty of exaggerated, distorted, and downright fake stories that seek to stoke tribal divisions. 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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Melissa Agnes

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

The YouTube Shooting Crisis: How Mountain View Police Department quickly regained control of the narrative that was going viral against their agency. This episode explores: How a Crisis Ready organizational mindset prepared MVPD for this moment before it happened. Follow and connect with MVPD on social: Facebook.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

As technology, social media and the online world continue to evolve, unfortunately, so do the risks that leave your organization vulnerable. Don’t think your crisis plan has blind spots? Risk 3: A lack of bandwidth can leave you without a crisis communication home base. Crisis Preparedness' Customer service.

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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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5W PR

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

False narratives spread at lightning speed across social media platforms, reaching millions before facts catch up. For brands, the stakes couldn’t be higher consumer trust , once lost to viral falsehoods, proves difficult to rebuild. Social media amplifies these challenges. Recent data shows that 63% of U.S.

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Melissa Agnes

MARCH 6, 2018

Becoming crisis ready is a process. Fortunately, there’s a method to this process that can take any organization, of any size, type, and industry, from their current level of crisis readiness, straight through to building an invincible brand—which, as you know, is the ultimate benefit of being crisis ready.

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Melissa Agnes

AUGUST 29, 2014

From The Crisis Intelligence Blog. Emory’s Excellent Crisis Communication on Facebook. Does Common Sense On Social Media Come With Age? Melissa Agnes to Conduct Crisis Management Workshop at the GCC Government Social Media Summit in Dubai. Social Media for Healthcare: What’s The Potential?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 14, 2020

But it does encourage participants to share their signs on social media, resulting in thousands of views and engaging local communities. Social media has been a tad depressing lately, with many expressing anxiety or sharing losses due to the pandemic. Coors Light lightens the mood . Talk about raising community spirits!

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Armchair PR experts get lots of mileage from critiquing crisis management by major brands and businesses this time of year. But what about the crisis situations that are handled well? That, too, was captured on other passengers’ cell phones and enjoyed a brief viral moment on social media.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

PR, on the other hand, with its ties to reputation and crisis management, is thought to play a more defensive role, designed to protect the corporate brand. A sudden market shift or crisis. PR and marketing are perceived very differently, especially in a corporate environment. You basically can’t have one without the other.

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Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

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? Prevent the preventable.

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PRSay

JUNE 7, 2021

Media fires that communicators could have doused before the 6 o’clock news, even a decade ago, can now erupt into global conflagrations, thanks to smartphones and social media. Organizations are only as strong as how they respond in moments of crisis. This is where the idea of a “red team” comes into play.

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Melissa Agnes

JUNE 3, 2014

However, if you’re monitoring social media in real-time, you will become aware of the issue as it grows and really turns into an issue in need of your attention. Identifying the trigger points that indicate that an issue needs to be escalated to the crisis team. An issue is an issue and a crisis is a crisis.

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HMA Public Relations

JUNE 26, 2019

It seems not a day goes by that a viral video is making the news. Abbie gives her expert insight on how to handle crisis communications in the social media age. The post Crisis Communications in the Social Media Age appeared first on HMA Public Relations.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 26, 2019

Public relations teams and their agencies typically want to advise a CEO directly, and we routinely urge leaders to build a public profile through social media and high-level content. It’s good news that corporate leaders are starting to appreciate the power of social media, but progress has been slow.

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Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Part 1: Debunking the Unpredictability of Social Media and the Digital Landscape. Social media’s impact on crisis doesn’t just exist for organizational crises or emergencies such as natural disasters. World leaders are currently fighting in a war of ideas where social media plays a threatening role.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Avoid turning a crisis into a disaster by developing a media crisis plan that involves those who sway opinions on social media everyday: influencers. Follow these three simple steps to partner with a social media influencer: 1. Struggling to build out your crisis communication plan?

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Melissa Agnes

MARCH 1, 2016

Your corporate culture directly impacts your organization’s crisis management. Successful crisis management has a lot to do with an organization’s corporate culture and the mindset it instils in its team members. Embedding the right corporate culture for successful crisis management. Simple next steps to take.

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NewsWhip

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This release introduces a new way to follow stories on X, tracing their journey from a single tweet to widespread public and media engagement. Whether navigating a crisis or identifying the next big story, Timeline ensures you have the tools to respond effectively and with precision.

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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. The tone of the language, the medium of the message, and its timing contribute to public perception of a company’s management of the situation.

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PRSay

APRIL 6, 2018

Viral videos. From a crisis management point of view, 2017 had it all! Everyone’s now on social media. Why new rules are needed for crisis management. As creators of the award-winning digital crisis management platform, “In Case of Crisis,” we talk regularly to crisis management practitioners.

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Prowly

DECEMBER 4, 2024

How do you check how ineffective your media monitoring tactics are? By how many times you had to act on a PR crisis after it had already gained traction. Keyword-specific coverage analysis Say, you want to conduct a social media sentiment analysis for your new product launch. Scoring high for all three? Don’t feel bad.

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Cision

JULY 5, 2016

Knowing what is being said is the first step, and that can be as simple as setting up Google alerts, social media notifications—and yes, daily forwards from Cision !–to Having a social media initiative go viral is not a good goal – what is the intended net result?

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Cision

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Ninety percent of brands have a presence on social media, but only 37 percent are listening closely to what their audiences are saying. You can easily steer your brand towards success by implementing social media listening. Social media has sped up the way we communicate, including how we write.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 25, 2017

” For example, there’s an assumption that the internet or social media are not the best tools for reaching low-income Americans. 3 Ways to Maintain Control of Your Corporate Social Media. The speed and accessibility of social media means that brands are always teetering on the edge of a crisis.

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Melissa Agnes

MAY 30, 2014

And worse, what if it gets picked up and begins to go viral with negativity about your organization? There are different levels of issues, ending with an issue that needs to be escalated to the crisis team. Social media is a powerful communications tool that presents many wonderful opportunities. Learn more here.

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Presspage

MAY 11, 2017

When a crisis hits, it is important for an organization to have a protocol in place. The protocol should not only focus on how to handle and cope with a crisis, but should also contain a clear communication flow. But if misused, things on social media can take a turn for the worse.

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Cision

MARCH 1, 2016

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.” So we may be in “crisis” far more often than we are in crisis.

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Prowly

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Typically, this is to build brand awareness, improve brand reputation, manage a crisis, or promote products, services and ideas. Behavioral patterns (previous behavior online, on your website and social media) The more information you have, the better your targeting will be. Measure against your KPIs to assess effectiveness.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Few things are more satisfying than a brand handling a potential public relations crisis with grace, aplomb, and humor. ” The tragic plot twist stirred up simmering negative sentiment against Crock-Pot, starting as a “slow burn” that later caught fire on social media. .” But is it enough?

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Shift Communications

APRIL 11, 2018

Crisis communications is the opposite of traditional public relations and involves putting out a “ fire ” of some sort. There is often a tide of public and media opinion that follows. In most cases when a company is faced with a crisis they often mess up the initial response.

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Melissa Agnes

JANUARY 11, 2015

Welcome to episode #032 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Daniel Noah. Their collaborative and explorative mindset, their use of social media and mobile technology – they’re an interesting case study and a great example for others to be inspired by and learn from. Subscribe via email.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 25, 2014

Social media is a great tool for engaging with consumers. There are some fantastic examples of effective social campaigns and professionally-maintained accounts out there. With that in mind, here are my top five tips to help you avoid some common social media errors. How NOT to Run Your Social Media.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In his nearly 19 years at Amazon, Herdener has seen Amazon’s PR function move from a retail-consumer focus to a multifaceted approach that includes employee communications, social media, executive communications and reputational marketing. A facts-first approach to crisis management. It has been empowering for the teams.”.

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MaccaPR

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

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. CRISIS LESSON #1: EVERYTHING YOU BELIEVE IS PRIVATE WILL BE SHARED PUBLICLY. The first rule for any online crisis ?

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