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

Melissa Agnes

Melissa’s #1 despised buzzword: Social media crisis. The fact of the matter is that a crisis is a crisis. The definition of a crisis: A negative situation / event that threatens to have long-term repercussions on the organization’s reputation and/or bottom line. So let’s call it like it is!

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Gearing Up For Social Slam 2013

Waxing UnLyrical

And this is what I’m pretty sure I will get at SMC Knoxville’s Social Slam 2013 , which will kick off in exactly three weeks and three days from today (April 5). It’s one of the afternoon’s breakout sessions, and on social media in a crisis. Here’s how it’s billed: Social media in a crisis.

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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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Your Favorite MaccaPR Blog Posts: Ellen's Oscar Selfie, Death of PR Spin and Online Content Secrets

MaccaPR

Since MaccaPR first launched in late 2012, we''ve averaged a new blog post nearly every week for our loyal chief marketing and PR officer, corporate communication directors and marketing professional subscribers.

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12 Secrets To Protecting Your Brand From Celebrity Scandals

MaccaPR

Our public relations world promptly erupted with crisis advice, recommending what Subway - which had featured the now self-admitted molester in some 300 ads over 15 years - should have done after it learned that the face of its brand had committed acts which guarantee that its $5 foot-long will forever be associated with a pedophile.

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The Top PR Threats To Your Company’s Reputation

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

A sudden crisis can be an externally driven event that is entirely unpredictable, like the death of a chief executive or an accident by a business partner. Or a crisis can strike closer to home; it can be a rogue employee action or supplier lapse in a single region that affects an entire brand, like the Chipotle E.