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TCIP #001 – Doing Crisis Communications Right with the Mountain View Police Department

Melissa Agnes

What this police department is doing to engage with their community on social media and how they’ve integrated social media as a core part of their crisis communications and emergency management plan is simply inspiring. It’s a conversation that impressed and inspired me. I hope it does the same for you. Running time: 56:40.

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Your Guide for Data Breach Crisis Communication

Melissa Agnes

For example: Do you have a database of your customers, clients, members or other stakeholders’ confidential information (be it their name, social security number / social insurance number, home address, phone number, banking information, etc.)? Does your organization communicate confidential information and trade secrets via email?

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Speak but be quiet. How to build crisis communication

Reputation Antistress by Sergii Bidenko

However, skilled communicators have their protocol when dealing with a crisis, akin to the actions of algorithms for catastrophe doctors. Monitoring summaries will provide operational information and paint a picture of the type of communication in social media, chat rooms, and comments on news sites.

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For comms pros, Silicon Valley Bank is a reminder that trust is currency

Sword and the Script

They didn’t trust the bank. The banking community has some unique dynamics… Scar tissue. The financial crisis of 2008-2009 still haunts many of us; Frayed nerves. The preceding cryptocurrency meltdown toppled a bank or two and reminded us of the financial ghosts; and Uncertainty. They lost confidence.

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4 Creative PR Ideas for Crisis Communications

Sword and the Script

It may seem counterintuitive, but the ingenuity of deftly navigating the most difficult of binds goes to show PR is often as much about problem solving as it is communication. Corporate crisis communications provides a demonstration because there are very clear constraints: Unknown unknowns – the effort to understand what is happening.

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Communications Careers: Measuring Progress in Steps Through Peaks & Valleys

Deirdre Breakenridge

Achieving success in your PR, communications or any career is about putting one foot in front of the other and repeating the process. CommunicationsMatch is a search tool that helps companies find communications agencies and consultants by industry and communications expertise, location and size. There are caveats to this.

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2014: Year of the data breach

Reputation Us

Communication is crucial throughout any crisis – including data breaches. Target, Home Depot and a dozen other companies are just a drop in the bucket, all of whom are likely looking forward to putting this year in the rearview mirror. Many organizations look to their IT departments […].

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