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Why My College Crash Course in Crisis Communications Will Never End

PRSay

My most important crisis communications test didn’t come through my PR work with PayPal, Snowflake or Tetris. For example, I still need to course-correct from time to time: “Oh, I don’t have a wife. He has represented brands like Snowflake, PayPal, Tetris — even the alien hunters of the SETI Institute!

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3 Steps for Effective Crisis Communications Management

Onclusive

A communications crisis can be one of the most difficult situations in your career. Crisis preparedness, internal education and having the right tools can aid you before a crisis hits. Crisis situations require research so that you can address the circumstance thoughtfully, and multi-channel rapid response.

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How does a CEO’s Personal Brand Impact Corporate Reputation?

Onclusive

Today, corporate reputation is directly impacted by and intertwined with a CEO’s personal brand. Particularly for CEOs of the world’s largest companies who’ve become brands in their own right and live life under the media spotlight. We’ve all seen how a CEO with a big brand can become the face of an organization.

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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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What’s The Difference Between PR And Reputation Management?

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Gartner calls reputation management “the practice of influencing stakeholder perceptions and public conversations about an organization and its brands.” Reputation management tends to touch a number of business functions, including legal, customer experience, sales, marketing, and — of course, communications.

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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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“Crisis Ready” for College, University, and MBA Courses

Melissa Agnes

Teaching students what it means to be crisis ready, and providing them with the fundamentals of crisis readiness that they can then bring forth with them into the workforce, is one of my greatest passions. Each time I was reading Crisis Ready , I was bookmarking pages and using my highlighter. Crisis management.

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