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Twitter’s Growth Rate is Diminishing. What Does this Mean for your Crisis Communications?

Melissa Agnes

Twitter is the social media platform that dominates the dissemination of news, updates and discussions in a crisis. Twitter also reported that they had 54 million active users at the end of 2013. Twitter also reported that they had 54 million active users at the end of 2013. Crisis Communications'

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A Look At Academic Research on Crisis Communication From #AEJMC14

Melissa Agnes

I’m always interested in seeing what’s being studied in universities these days, as well as the academic’s approach to the theoretical side of crisis communication, and so this day of observation and interaction was very fascinating for me. In terms of the crisis communication research.

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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).

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“Social Media Crisis” and Other Buzzwords that Need to Go

Melissa Agnes

Melissa’s #1 despised buzzword: Social media crisis. To us, here at Agnes + Day , someone who says that they specialize in “social media crises” is demonstrating a big red flag. The fact of the matter is that a crisis is a crisis. So let’s call it like it is!

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Three cardinal rules of PR that Adidas broke with Kanye West

NewsWhip

Somewhere in Adidas headquarters in Herzogenaurach, Germany, there’s a team of PR and Communications professionals who have just been through the toughest week of their careers. The story began way back in September, when Kanye (now known by the name “Ye”) criticized the German footwear company in interviews and on social media.

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TCIP #049 – What Makes a Good Crisis Message with Karen Freberg and Kristin Saling

Melissa Agnes

They recently conducted a research study to determine the characteristics and attributes that make a good crisis communication message on social media. In this week’s episode of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, I sat down with Karen and Kristin to discuss their study, its focus and its findings.

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Metrics in Crisis Comms, Marketing and Social Media [UML]

Sword and the Script

1) Communication Metrics: Disruption or True Crisis . There are media disruptions, and there are media crises,” according to Ashley Deibert , vice president of marketing for IQ Media. Some of the monitoring tools designed around social media, provide storage for just a few months of data.