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Why You Should Hire a Crisis Communications Agency?

Prohibition

Having a crisis communication plan in place ahead of time reduces confusion, ensures an effective communication flow, and improves messaging timeliness during or after a crisis. The basics of good crisis communications are the same for every company. What causes a crisis to go viral?

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Lesson From Facebook: 5 Tips on Handling Crisis Communications

Shift Communications

Crisis communications is the opposite of traditional public relations and involves putting out a “ fire ” of some sort. There is often a tide of public and media opinion that follows. In most cases when a company is faced with a crisis they often mess up the initial response. Kevin Mejia, Account Executive.

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TCIP #032 – The National Weather Service’s Crisis Communication Strategy with Daniel Noah

Melissa Agnes

Often, within my speaking engagements, I use the National Weather Service as a great example of innovative communications in times of emergency. Their collaborative and explorative mindset, their use of social media and mobile technology – they’re an interesting case study and a great example for others to be inspired by and learn from.

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Conference Recap: Reaching Rural Americans, Preventing Social Media Crises and Using the PESO Model

PRSay

” For example, there’s an assumption that the internet or social media are not the best tools for reaching low-income Americans. During her presentation, Haworth shared case studies pertaining to everything from prescription drug abuse to HIV awareness during the 2015 outbreak in Indiana’s Scott County.

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Coming Out on Top of a PR Crisis

Critical Mention

They have all been in the news for being involved in a crisis in the past couple of years. The lists go on and on when it comes to crisis communications case studies. As I have shared with students and young professionals, if you go into crisis communications, you will always have a case to discuss and work to do.

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6 Best Practices for Identifying and Reacting to a PR Crisis

Cision

Crisis communication is an important aspect of most PR roles. In the Journal of Marketing Management, a group of British researchers write that crisis communication has “implications for brand equity and consumers’ purchase intentions.” Working through a PR crisis.

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The Empire Strikes Back:  3 Reactions to Amazon vs. NYT

Sword and the Script

Thought the initial reaction to the Times story certainly wasn’t planned – the spontaneous and candid response of one Amazon employee went viral – I instinctively believed it worked out in Amazon’s favor. What’s your take on this from a crisis communications standpoint? Photo credit: Flickr, Pascal, Echo Base Hangar ( CC0 1.0 ).