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Every company should have a crisis handbook

PR in High Definition

It was made worse by the now infamous video of a woman being let go by two people she’d never met prior, and the company has come under fire from the media, previous employees, and even current staff. As such, a blueprint of how to handle a crisis should be in place for every business – big or small.

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Amazon case study: Should rank-and-file employees be speaking on behalf of brands?

Communications Conversations

But, along the way, we heard from one surprising source as the story unfolded: An Amazon employee. And, this opens up, yet again, a discussion we’ve had before: Should employees be empowered to speak up during a company crisis or firestorm? Meanwhile, 52 percent trust employees of that same company.

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Letter from BETT

Stephen Waddington

Community teaching and newsjacking tools, Edelman on trust, putting the paid in PESO, a how-to book for 2019, Amazon data driven brands, Instagram marketing offline, and more. It’s a useful tool for real time marketing, crisis and newsjacking work. Edelman suggests that a new contract has emerged between employer and employee.

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Top 3 Things to Resolve Before a Crisis Strikes

Beyond PR

Mistakes, misunderstandings, accidents, product failures, and employee misconduct are all risks that businesses face regularly. If managed especially well, few outside your crisis response team will even know something happened. If managed especially well, few outside your crisis response team will even know something happened.

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Managing an Online Reputation – A practical book for dealing with a social media crisis

Norton's Notes

I read it over the Christmas holidays whilst watching far too many movies and drinking too much beer, it is one of the first books that has been outreached to me, that genuinely interested me, as I felt the outreach was well targeted because I love online crisis management and cover it quite a lot here on the blog. How is the book structured?

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Guarding your organisation’s reputation is your responsibility – but how do you play a key role in shaping it?

PR in High Definition

When we (Firefly) talk about reputation, we split this out from brand or branding. We tend to think about ‘brand’ as what an organisation says about itself, whilst reputation is what others think about the organisation. How do they intend the brand to be seen? Make sure you ask them: What the ‘Go to market’ messaging is?

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How to Get On in New Communications: Be Nice

ZudePR

That means my best crisis comms advice and experience can’t be fully disclosed as some of it has helped clients avoid a crisis and therefore talking too much about it risks actually bringing it out into greater prominence!” For me, as a local government employee, there are clear political boundaries.