Cision

DECEMBER 4, 2017

One negative comment can attract thousands of tweets and reactions, turning that single comment into a full-blown PR crisis. When a PR crisis hits, confusion, anxiety, and chaos can shake up your organization. In fact, you can turn a brand crisis into a PR success if you act fast swiftly. Address The Issue Clearly And Quickly.

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Melissa Agnes

JULY 17, 2014

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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Melissa Agnes

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

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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Melissa Agnes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

Welcome to episode #016 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Jonathan Hemus. Faced with this utmost and devastating challenge, how did the airline fare in their crisis management and what lessons can you take away to strengthen your own organization’s crisis plan? Connect with Melissa on LinkedIn.

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Melissa Agnes

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Don’t think your crisis plan has blind spots? Let me throw three common crisis scenarios at you and you can reflect on whether or not your team is prepared for each of them – and don’t assume you know the answer, actually go and find out! Crisis Preparedness' Don’t think this applies to you? Operations.

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Melissa Agnes

AUGUST 4, 2014

When asked how they determine whether or not a negative comment or post is worth paying attention to (in other words, can it potentially escalate into a crisis), most organizations will respond “we look at the influence of the individual or company responsible for the post” But what does this really mean?

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Melissa Agnes

MARCH 13, 2018

If you follow my work, then you know that helping organizations become crisis ready is not just what I do professionally, but it is one of my biggest passions. The typical act of crisis preparedness looks something like this: An organization tasks a department or small team of people to create a crisis management plan.

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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. About this episode.

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Agility PR Solutions

MARCH 16, 2022

One of the most challenging things a PR agent may need to do is handle a public crisis. A crisis may destroy a company overnight. There are too many examples of viral situations that have affected companies worldwide, both positively and negatively.

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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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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

JULY 3, 2018

Thanks to high-profile crises, viral issues, and fun television series like Scandal , crisis management is being seen more and more as a “sexy” and thrilling profession or service offering. Crisis management advisors and consultants are not supposed to be the risk. What makes me say this? Olivia Pope’s life is glamorous.

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Melissa Agnes

AUGUST 11, 2014

The hotel’s (ludicrous) policy was posted to their website last year, yet it only went viral against them last week. This is important to realize and here’s why: Just because you get away with something for a while, it in no way means that you’ll get away with it forever – not in today’s virally connected world.

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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. And then there’s Uber.

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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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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 4, 2022

But the joke infuriated many TikTok users, including our very own Chris Harihar, whose tweet went viral. I’ll flesh out strategies in my next post, but the steps toward cancel club redemption are similar to any reputation crisis playbook – but on steroids. The same rules apply for sarcasm and snark in my view.

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Melissa Agnes

JULY 29, 2014

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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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 move to ban third-party cookies has precipitated an “identity crisis” in digital advertising. Marketers look beyond products.

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5W PR

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

For brands, the stakes couldn’t be higher consumer trust , once lost to viral falsehoods, proves difficult to rebuild. This velocity means brands often find themselves playing defense against viral falsehoods before they’ve even identified the source.

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PRSay

JUNE 7, 2021

Organizations are only as strong as how they respond in moments of crisis. This myopic mindset can shut out constructive feedback and imperil organizations — making it imperative to identify shortfalls in a crisis response plan before its flawed protocols become embedded in every level of the organization.

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Melissa Agnes

AUGUST 29, 2014

From The Crisis Intelligence Blog. Emory’s Excellent Crisis Communication on Facebook. Melissa Agnes to Conduct Crisis Management Workshop at the GCC Government Social Media Summit in Dubai. This week’s episode of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast. Crisis Management Resources' Enjoy and have an awesome weekend!

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Agility PR Solutions

MARCH 30, 2020

Brands and businesses are scrambling to stay afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic, but they’d better also watch the way they conduct their crisis business management—because once the viral dust settles, consumers plan to hold them accountable.

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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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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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Onclusive

JUNE 1, 2023

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. Yes, that’s right, it’s not just for marketing teams!

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 25, 2017

But most of the images, which quickly went viral, showed a deeply distressed mother of twin toddlers, sobbing openly, as the flight attendant shouts down another passenger who comes to her aid. The post American Airlines Soars Through A Potential Crisis appeared first on Crenshaw Communications. This is how it’s done.

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Cision

JUNE 3, 2015

Is prevention of a crisis possible? It’s unlikely that you can do anything to avoid the instant virality of anything remotely salacious or damning to a company, its executives or its brand. Integrate your crisis plan. Don’t crumble under crisis. Often times, we find ourselves more often the bullseye than the arrow.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 1, 2018

It seems lies are more viral than truth – at least on Twitter. Most striking were the factors that do not explain the virality of false information. So far, Facebook has struggled in its response to the crisis. There’s more bad news on the “fake news” front. Why is false news so shareable?

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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 first statement in crisis response carries great importance, because it sets the tone for what will follow. Facebook dodges blame.

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Melissa Agnes

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Each month, I answer your crisis ready questions. Here’s a sampling of what these questions were: “Is crisis management different from industry to industry?” This discussion explores: Strategic ways to successfully manage controversial viral issues. Crisis Ready Formula for Managing Controversies.

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Onclusive

MARCH 24, 2022

Staying ahead of market shifts, opportunities and crises with predictive analytics — the real value is being able to identify a story to newsjack before it goes viral, or learning about a potential crisis before it happens and averting it.

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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. Your crisis plan should focus on those who can help your responses and ongoing communication go viral. Struggling to build out your crisis communication plan?

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Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

As you may have heard, Crisis Ready: Building an Invincible Brand in an Uncertain World , is my new book – and I’m so excited that it’s finally available for you to preorder on Amazon ! When I set out to write Crisis Ready , the last thing I wanted was to write yet another (boring) book on crisis management.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 14, 2020

It delivered 150 cans of Coors Light, and, of course, the social media coverage went viral. My personal favorite move from an organization during this crisis is from the hotel industry. Wouldn’t you know it, Molson Coors was listening. Olive’s plea – and the brand’s response – was even picked up by CNN.

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Melissa Agnes

MAY 23, 2015

Welcome to episode #050 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Garth Rowan. From female reporters being spontaneously and continually harassed during live reporting, to individuals making mistakes caught on camera and ending up losing their jobs as a result of the footage going viral. Connect with us!

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PRSay

APRIL 6, 2018

Viral videos. From a crisis management point of view, 2017 had it all! 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. United Airlines. Wells Fargo. Cyber thefts.

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Melissa Agnes

JUNE 3, 2014

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. Today’s reality is that no matter where an issue – but especially a crisis – originates, it will develop an online presence. It doesn’t.

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