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What We Can Learn From World Cup PR Disasters

Critical Mention

These epic World Cup fails show us what NOT to do when it comes to best PR practices and how to use crisis communication strategies to quickly recover. The key to crisis management is to have a plan ahead of time, respond immediately, take responsibility, and ensure everyone in the organization knows his or her role.

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The Field of Emergency Management: Why It Is Not A Profession

Melissa Agnes

Editor’s note: This blog post merely touches on an interesting and important discussion I had with Dr. Tom on The Crisis Intelligence Podcast. The issue of emergency management as a profession has been discussed and debated for several years. Emergency management: profession vs. field. By Dr. Thomas D.

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Startup PR Myths Busted, via NY Tech Meetup

Flack's Revenge

Since 2007 this blog has been dedicated to educating about PR. Miles Rose: I’ve seen PR from $3,000 a month to in excess of $10,000 and literally millions for crisis management. Most work on a retainer basis (meaning monthly fee) vs. projects or performance.

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From classroom to boardroom – crisis management lessons from the auto industry

PR Conversations

Aaron Shardey gained a first class honours degree in public relations at London College of Communications this Summer with his undergraduate dissertation offering case study research into crisis management in the automotive industry.

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PR: Less Elitist Than Ever

Maxim Behar

Solving a PR crisis, managing reputation, or building and developing a corporate image, for example, when a merger between companies, especially in the financial sector, is another story. Even though it started much earlier, most of this transformation of social media and the social web occurred in 2007–2008.

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