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

PRSay

In today’s unforgiving media environment, decades’ worth of arduous work to build a strong reputation can be destroyed in less than a week. 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.

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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. An absurd amount of businesses, of all different industries and sizes, are losing reputation and major revenue from well planned and highly impactful defamation attacks.

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Smart PR Helps Spread Good News

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

In fact, happy news is a main driver for social media sharing. Emotions layered with happiness make up the majority of top drivers of viral content. We can then decide to simply share through social media or, when warranted, to make a bigger media splash. We recommend creating a storybank of your own.

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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. An absurd amount of businesses, of all different industries and sizes, are losing reputation and major revenue from well planned and highly impactful defamation attacks.

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Misinformation 2.0: Deepfakes are the biggest threat to media today

PR in High Definition

The topic of fake news has been a mainstay in the media in recent years but, despite being coined at the same time, ‘deepfakes’ are only now beginning to gather interest. The phrase went viral back in May when a doctored video appeared to show US politician Nancy Pelosi drunk in a TV interview. There is hope, however.

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5 Steps to Becoming a Crisis Communication Pro

Melissa Agnes

Never knowing if something is going to go viral against you in a negative way… but wait! Developing a reputation based on transparency, authenticity, trust and credibility. Neither are those dated table top exercises that organizations have grown accustom to over the years.

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Earned Media Rising Podcast With Cision CMO, Chris Lynch

Cision

It seems like maybe the C-suite is much more aware of the value that communications and reputation can add to an enterprise. Steve Barrett: And that’s social media really in many ways it’s the thing that’s knitted this all together and made the alignment make sense, hasn’t it?

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