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How United Airlines Is Communicating Its Vaccine Mandate to Employees

PRSay

In August, United Airlines announced that all of its 67,000 employees must receive COVID-19 vaccines or risk losing their jobs. The airline, the first U.S. We know some of you will disagree with this decision to require the vaccine for all United employees,” the airline told its staff by email.

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Why Employee Opinions Are Their Own…& a Reflection Of Your Brand

Cision

This post is an excerpt from the e-book, Listen: 5 Social Audiences Brands Can’t Afford to Ignore. A brand is made up of the people who represent it. In the age of social media, brands are quick to try to distance themselves from employees on social media. This is dangerous in two ways. No charge at all.”

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7 Ways To Crisis-Proof Your Brand

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

What’s the cost of a brand crisis? As video of United Airlines passenger Dr. David Dao being violently dragged from his seat went viral, the media – and a global audience of prospective customers – were horrified. United’s reputation storm came just days after brand Pepsi weathered a different kind of eruption.

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How to Turn Your Brand Crisis into PR Success with Ease

Cision

As much as social media followers love to praise your brand, they won’t hesitate to criticize your actions if they have a good reason. Thus, it has the potential to bring your marketing and branding strategy to its knees in just a few hours. In fact, you can turn a brand crisis into a PR success if you act fast swiftly.

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Brand crisis research: vaccine mandates, Striketober, & misinformation

NewsWhip

We discussed our latest brand crisis research around misinformation, worker strikes, and vaccine mandates and the key features of public and media interest during the October episode of the NewsWhip Pulse. Reaching out to the key news sources to correct the record early on is paramount to effectively manage misinformation directed at a brand.

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How’s the Storytelling in the Facebook Page from North Korea’s Airline, Air Koryo?

Ishmael's Corner

For consumer companies, Facebook offers one of the easiest platforms for brand storytelling. Take that photo of a customer smiling over the company’s product/service or that video of employees raising money for a worthy cause, publish on Facebook and voila! You instantly bring out the humanity of the brand.

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Nike, Delta, and Walmart: Brand lessons from April’s top Fortune 100 coverage

NewsWhip

April was a month of controversy for some brands, and it came thanks to some conservative backlash to influencer partnerships. Brands are no strangers to backlash from the public — there are whole teams that manage communities on social media, and who are trained to respond to crises.

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