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Business Crisis Management: Why Press Releases Are Important

PR Fuel

Almost 70-percent of businesses recently surveyed experienced a crisis in the past five years. Negative information about your business can travel quickly, and crisis management is critical. How you handle a business crisis reveals your character and skill at handling a catastrophe. Gives Necessary Information.

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The Importance of Social Media in Crisis Management

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Social media is an increasingly important element in a successful crisis management approach. With the recent increase in the use of social media in crisis situations, organisations across all sectors need to understand the benefits of incorporating it into their crisis plan. What is Crisis Management?

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COVID-19: Lessons of Past Pandemics Are More Timely Than Ever for Crisis Management

PRSay

Keep the internal lines of communications open 24/7 and encourage employees to openly voice their questions or fears. Listen to their concerns and share information with them from trustworthy sources such as the Centers for Disease Control , the World Health Organization , as well as state and local officials. Enlist employees.

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Report: Companies Face a New Era of Scrutiny on Political Activity

PRSay

Insights are also from the Center’s recent survey of 84 large public and private firms on how companies and their employee-funded PACs responded to the Capitol riot and objections to the election certification. The report’s insights stem primarily from a roundtable discussion featuring executives from more than 30 major U.S.

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PRSA Chair T. Garland Stansell on Communicating During the Coronavirus Outbreak

PRSay

Organizations are continuing to examine how their employees, operations, stakeholders and communities may be impacted. There are several local and national agencies with the experience and expertise with the coronavirus, and they have assembled a wealth of information to explain what is happening in real-time,” Stansell said. “It

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New Fronts in Crisis Management

Flatiron Communications

Not too long ago, positive change inevitably occurred following an embarrassing news report of a company behaving badly, e.g., shafting its employees out of their justly earned wages. One such corporate crisis-driving crusader is New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. This no longer is the case.

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How to Prepare a PR Crisis Plan

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What is a PR Crisis Plan? Your employees and stakeholders could be made to look incompetent or immoral. Trying to control a crisis is almost impossible. For example, an employee leaks damaging information about your company. ? A major crisis. 11 Steps to Effectively Managing a PR Crisis.

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