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Weekly Roundup of Awesome Links: Week of August 25, 2014

Melissa Agnes

From The Crisis Intelligence Blog. 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? Social Media and the ‘Spiral of Silence’.

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The importance of a social media strategy #engaging

Engage PR

And with social media spend within marketing budgets expected to increase 128% to 21.4% in the next five years (1* Chief Marketing Officers Survey, 2014 ) social activity is becoming more integral to brand perception and business performance. Cue social backlash across the internet.

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5 tips to get you through a crisis using social media

Presspage

Among the many communication tools that can be used during a crisis, social media is one of the most important ones because it offers the opportunity for an immediate, concise, and far-reaching response. But if misused, things on social media can take a turn for the worse. The thin line between positive and negative.

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The Ugly Side of Social Media Sharing

Waxing UnLyrical

I am a social media advocate. But I hate the ugly side of social media sharing; especially when kids are involved. The image went viral. Susan didn’t even know the image had gone viral until she saw another Facebook friend shared the meme on April 22. Guest post by Jenelle Conner. No harm intended.

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Adapting Strategies for Effective Storytelling in the Social Media Era

PRSay

With the tremendous growth of social media in recent years, the PR landscape is continuously evolving and causing public relations professionals to adapt to the 24/7/365 news cycle we now work in as well as the instant, viral nature in which news breaks and spreads.

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State of Crisis Communications and Social Media from a Professor’s Perspective

Waxing UnLyrical

Social media and crisis communications has become one of the fastest growing areas of both practice and research for today’s communication landscape. Additionally, “over half of respondents (52%) feel that the benefits of using social media as a crisis communications tool outweigh the risks” (page 4).

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6 Best Practices for Identifying and Reacting to a PR Crisis

Cision

A 2014 article in the Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship poses an interesting question: although “social media” is an umbrella term used to describe an array of applications, how many do PR practitioners actually use/put a value on? “Crisis Communications and Social Media: The Game Just Got Tougher.”

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