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Preparing for the Worst: Crisis Communication Planning for Businesses & Corporates

Mediagraphix PR

Crisis communication is an essential component of corporate management. No matter how well-prepared a company is, there will come a time when bad news must be delivered to stakeholders.

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Crisis Management: Challenges Affecting Crisis Communication

5W PR

But, studying well-known crises—among them Lance Armstrong, Virginia Tech, BP, and Dreamworld—crisis communication teams should learn that waiting until the last minute to plan for a crisis is the worst strategy of all. Learning from past crises, the first step towards winning during a crisis in acknowledging what one is facing.

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Is Your Corporate Website Still the Right Place to Designate as Your Crisis Communications Home Base?

Melissa Agnes

With the growing use of social media to follow brands, rather than navigating to the brand’s corporate website, should your corporate website still be used as your crisis communications home base? One you should aim to think through within your crisis preparedness. This is a good question.

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A Look At Academic Research on Crisis Communication From #AEJMC14

Melissa Agnes

I’m always interested in seeing what’s being studied in universities these days, as well as the academic’s approach to the theoretical side of crisis communication, and so this day of observation and interaction was very fascinating for me. In terms of the crisis communication research.

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4 Creative PR Ideas for Crisis Communications

Sword and the Script

It may seem counterintuitive, but the ingenuity of deftly navigating the most difficult of binds goes to show PR is often as much about problem solving as it is communication. Corporate crisis communications provides a demonstration because there are very clear constraints: Unknown unknowns – the effort to understand what is happening.

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6 Social Media “Musts” for Crisis Communication

Cision

The airline continued to communicate via social media throughout the ordeal and was universally lauded for its social media response to this crisis. Social media adds an overwhelming complexity to crisis communication. What I want to do in this post is to examine how to best use social media for crisis communication.

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The 22 Responsibilities of PR and What They Entail

Onclusive

Owned Media & Content Strategy Owned media consists of publishing content on brand-owned channels such as a customer-facing blog, email campaign, or social media outreach. PR pros will need to either write content themselves or help to drive strategy with a team of writers, editors and guest blog contributors.

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