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To Improve Crisis-Response Plans, Bring in a Red Team

PRSay

Media fires that communicators could have doused before the 6 o’clock news, even a decade ago, can now erupt into global conflagrations, thanks to smartphones and social media. Organizations are only as strong as how they respond in moments of crisis. This is where the idea of a “red team” comes into play.

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The 5 Phases of Becoming Crisis Ready

Melissa Agnes

Becoming crisis ready is a process. Fortunately, there’s a method to this process that can take any organization, of any size, type, and industry, from their current level of crisis readiness, straight through to building an invincible brand—which, as you know, is the ultimate benefit of being crisis ready.

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How To Identify your Crisis Plan’s Blind Spots

Melissa Agnes

As technology, social media and the online world continue to evolve, unfortunately, so do the risks that leave your organization vulnerable. Don’t think your crisis plan has blind spots? Risk 3: A lack of bandwidth can leave you without a crisis communication home base. Who should be involved in this exercise?

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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.” So we may be in “crisis” far more often than we are in crisis.

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5 Steps to Becoming a Crisis Communication Pro

Melissa Agnes

Can any organization be a crisis communication pro? Being crisis-ready, crisis-intelligent, isn’t a mysterious quality that only a few people or organizations possess. So what would it take for your organization, your team, to be considered a crisis communication pro? Absolutely, why not? Prevent the preventable.

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How To Identify your Crisis Plan’s Blind Spots

Melissa Agnes

As technology, social media and the online world continue to evolve, unfortunately, so do the risks that leave your organization vulnerable. Don’t think your crisis plan has blind spots? Risk 3: A lack of bandwidth can leave you without a crisis communication home base. Who should be involved in this exercise?

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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).