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TCIP #016 – Malaysia Airlines Crisis Management with Jonathan Hemus

Melissa Agnes

Malaysia Airlines has suffered through two devastating and traumatic crises this year. These are two major crises, ultimate nightmares for any airline, and Malaysia Airlines faced both within months from one another. How culture, both organizational and national, impacted Malaysia Airlines’s crisis communication.

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Smart PR Helps Spread Good News

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Emotions layered with happiness make up the majority of top drivers of viral content. The ultimate feel-good story: a baby was born mid-flight on Spirit Airlines. Best of all was the airline’s quick PR thinking as it announced that young Christoph Lezcano will fly free every year on his birthday for life.

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When The CEO Should Be The PR Spokesperson

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Public relations teams and their agencies typically want to advise a CEO directly, and we routinely urge leaders to build a public profile through social media and high-level content. Photo by Foto Sushi on Unsplash. But when should the CEO of a major company serve as its public spokesperson? To announce a new strategy.

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How Digital PR Pros Can Cope with Recent Google Search Updates

Cision

This practice was followed by several digital PR agencies with the aim of getting their client’s link uploaded on any website hook, line and sinker. As we saw with the recent United Airlines fiasco , crisis news doesn’t take time to go viral. As such, digital PR agencies have no alternative but to catch up.

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7 Lessons Every Marketer Can Learn From The CrossFit Instagram Crisis

MaccaPR

Amidst the hurricane of PR catastrophes this past year – from H & M’s racist “Biggest Monkey in the Jungle” debacle, Papa John’s CEO attacking the NFL and Uber’s parade of scandals to United Airlines’ nose-breaking, tooth-shattering attack on a passenger, the Oscar “Best Picture is.Oops!” The alternative to that lightning-fast candor?

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How Digital PR Pros Can Cope with Recent Google Search Updates

Beyond PR

This practice was followed by several digital PR agencies with the aim of getting their client’s link uploaded on any website hook, line and sinker. As we saw with the recent United Airlines fiasco , crisis news doesn’t take time to go viral. As such, digital PR agencies have no alternative but to catch up.

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

MaccaPR

Remember those glorious days before Twitter and Facebook, when a marketing executive could be dismissive, casually cruel and outlandishly rude without becoming a viral pariah thanks to social media? Paul Maccabee is president of Minneapolis-based Maccabee , a strategic public relations and online marketing agency. LinkedIn'