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2017 Crisis Management That (Mostly) Worked

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Armchair PR experts get lots of mileage from critiquing crisis management by major brands and businesses this time of year. But what about the crisis situations that are handled well? That, too, was captured on other passengers’ cell phones and enjoyed a brief viral moment on social media.

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Understanding the Defense Tech Industry and the Role of Public Relations

5W PR

Defense technology transcends the world of gadgets and apps. In this high-stakes arena, public relations isn’t simply useful when it comes to crisis control. Forget the Silicon Valley playbook of viral trends and flashy apps. Here, technology isn’t about entertainment.

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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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Today, we say goodbye to HARO [PR Tech Sum 52]

Sword and the Script

Top stories in today’s summary of PR news: Cision shutters the HARO brand; Agility adds “Intelligent Insights”; PR tech company replaces employees with AI On the first Tuesday of every month, I sort through all the news I can find on PR technology or comms tech and present it in a summary post like this one.

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How Digital PR Pros Can Cope with Recent Google Search Updates

Cision

Writing compelling content will always come to your rescue and so will the re=“nofollow” attribute for the links, especially in articles, blogs, guest posts, and press releases. As we saw with the recent United Airlines fiasco , crisis news doesn’t take time to go viral. This will prevent bad links from passing PageRank.

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Why it’s Important to Monitor Trending Topics

Critical Mention

Knowing what trends are going on in your industry allows you to keep up with the latest in marketing strategies and technology. Last but certainly not least, crisis communications is another benefit of following trends. 2) Where is the topic going viral? How do you identify what’s trending? LinkedIn Content Suggestions.

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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). Guest Post by Karen Freberg.