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The Great Rebuilding: Post-COVID ignites community engagement for brands and marketers

Agility PR Solutions

We’re entering a largely unprecedented era in American history, one in which we’re having to rebuild our culture and marketplace from the ruins of the COVID crisis and its aftermath—in many cases, from the ground up. If 2008 gave us the Great Recession, 2021 is bringing about a Great Rebuilding, according to new research and […].

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Brands Must Show They Understand and Respect the LGBTQ Community, PRSA Webinar Panelists Say

PRSay

Featuring some of the country’s leading LGBTQ communications professionals, the event covered how PR practitioners can engage with and support the LGBTQ community. Panelist Ben Finzel, president of RENEWPR, spoke about how the Black Lives Matter movement affects the LGBTQ community, especially the Black transgender community. “It

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Lizzo’s Masterclass in Turning a Crisis Into a Diversity Statement & Brand Win

Shift Communications

Here to help is superstar Lizzo who recently turned a DE&I crisis and misstep into an amazing diversity statement and brand win. Here’s why: The backstory: a DE&I crisis. Fans, community leaders and disability advocates called her out for using the slang term for“spastic” and promoting ableist culture.

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Media monitoring during a global crisis: 6 best practices

Agility PR Solutions

The COVID-19 pandemic sent the world into a frenzy, and brands were no exception. While many companies shared messages about staying safe at home, some brands like the David Suzuki Foundation found more creative ways to engage with their community in such a distressing global crisis.

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How To Get Ahead Of A Crisis When You’re Already Behind – Invincible Brand Podcast

Melissa Agnes

The YouTube Shooting Crisis: How Mountain View Police Department quickly regained control of the narrative that was going viral against their agency. This episode explores: How a Crisis Ready organizational mindset prepared MVPD for this moment before it happened. You can also listen to this episode on iTunes , Spotify , and Stitcher.

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How to Survive this Crisis

The Proactive Report

Consumers need to see consistency in brand messaging in times of uncertainty. And, as history has shown, brands that remain in-market with consistent messaging come out of a crisis ahead of their competitors. This is the time to show what you’re doing in this time of crisis. Plan Ahead. Provide factual updates.

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Introducing Crisis Dashboard

NewsWhip

It’s called Crisis Dashboard , and it will enable both communicators and journalists to unpack, in real time, all the public dimensions of any acute news event. The Crisis Information Gap. According to Gartner’s 2020 survey , CMOs, who once sought brand awareness above all else, now seek positive brand perception and trust.

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