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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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Reactive PR Opportunities in Brand Mentions

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Then there are the real-time marketing coups, like when Tide and Oreo took advantage of the 2013 Super Bowl blackout with witty ads; or Snickers sent its product to the Top Gear host who had been suspended for having a meltdown on set. Whatever you call it, reactive PR response can we a winning tactical play.

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4 Ways Influencers Support Brands in Real Time

Cision

With strong influencer relationships, your brand can call on its allies to come to its defense in times of crisis or to mobilize its audience when an opportunity arises. It’s every brand’s dream to go viral, but it doesn’t often happen. In 2013, Oreo did this with their famous Super Bowl tweet. Grow awareness.

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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). Here are a few ways to do this: 1.

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Revisiting The Power Of LinkedIn: 4 Etiquette Lessons From A Digital Crisis

MaccaPR

We thought the time was right to re-visit a post we originally published last March – inspired by a LinkedIn-inspired crisis, but still offering powerful lessons for any marketer determined to leverage LinkedIn as a social channel. Read on, and disregard at your own peril.