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11 Steps For Crisis Management

Prohibition

Any company, big or small, can experience a crisis. According to research, about 75 percent of companies will experience a crisis at some point due to the increasing complexity of modern business and the growth of social media in our fast-paced world. This is where crisis management comes in. What is Crisis Management?

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Today, we say goodbye to HARO [PR Tech Sum 52]

Sword and the Script

Acquisitions PR software company Vocus acquired HARO in 2010 for an undisclosed sum. This latest move may make financial sense, but it’s the second serious crisis communications distraction for the company in Europe. In other words, the ads were often informative or entertaining – and that’s why it worked.

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What You Don’t Know About Malaysia Airlines and How They’ve Handled the Crisis of Flight MH370

Melissa Agnes

By Judith Delaney, Attorney and member of Agnes + Day’s Crisis Intelligence Team. Malaysia’s Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (the “Act”) whose effective date had been postponed for several years. Better understanding the crisis of flight MH370. One of the countries I have been following has been Malaysia. Non-compliance.

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What We Can Learn From World Cup PR Disasters

Critical Mention

These epic World Cup fails show us what NOT to do when it comes to best PR practices and how to use crisis communication strategies to quickly recover. The key to crisis management is to have a plan ahead of time, respond immediately, take responsibility, and ensure everyone in the organization knows his or her role.

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McKinsey’s Cautionary Tale for Communicators

PRSay

Even for a consulting firm as large and successful as McKinsey, the mammoth $573 million, 47-state settlement they negotiated earlier this month regarding their long-term work with Purdue Pharma LP has to hurt financially. By 2010, the opioid epidemic was already in full swing, and public concern about it had grown.

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What We Can Learn From PR Crises

Critical Mention

Just a couple of months ago, a PR crisis came out of nowhere. Suddenly Tide found itself in the middle of an unexpected PR crisis that it didn’t cause. The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill was an industrial disaster that killed 11 people, left 200 million gallons of oil in the ocean and resulted in BP paying $18.7

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From classroom to boardroom – crisis management lessons from the auto industry

PR Conversations

Aaron Shardey gained a first class honours degree in public relations at London College of Communications this Summer with his undergraduate dissertation offering case study research into crisis management in the automotive industry.