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Three Steps to Successful Crisis Communication

Melissa Agnes

Crisis communication is one of the most important aspects of your crisis management. In fact, whom you communicate with in a crisis, along with when and how you communicate with them, can mean the difference between successful crisis management and crisis management failure. Subsidiary brands.

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The Role of The Social CEO in Your Crisis Communications

Melissa Agnes

As my mind continually wraps around risk and crisis communications (I can’t help it, it just works that way), this study leaves me with a question of concern: If trust in executives is at an all-time low, how can this work against your organization in a crisis? More than a crisis preparedness strategy. Stay tuned!

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How To Get Your Crisis Communications Right The First Time

Melissa Agnes

It has taken Equifax several attempts (and CEO’s) to get their crisis communications right, following the massive data breach that has impacted more than 143 million people. He wrote: Why can’t organizations seem to get their crisis communications right the first time? He’s right.

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How to Use Threads For B2B PR

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

As Twitter (now X) declines, and newer social platforms like Bluesky remain exclusive or in beta mode, Meta’s Threads has emerged as a notable social destination for brand PR. Its focus on real-time conversations and sharing presents an opportunity to showcase industry expertise through engaging content.

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The Sexy Allure Of Crisis Management Is Presenting Risk To Organizations

Melissa Agnes

While the allure is understandable—from the outside, I realize it can look like a fast-paced, exciting career filled with adventure and heroism—what I’m seeing more and more is that this image and allure is presenting a high-risk scenario to many organizations. Crisis management advisors and consultants are not supposed to be the risk.

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4 Creative PR Ideas for Crisis Communications

Sword and the Script

Corporate crisis communications provides a demonstration because there are very clear constraints: Unknown unknowns – the effort to understand what is happening. Time hacks – crisis PR demands speed. As a Chevy spokesperson Rikk Wilde’s job was to present a new truck to San Francisco Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner.

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Repairing Trust: Reputation Management and Crisis Communications

Shift Communications

In previous posts, we’ve shared the basic crisis triangle : Respond with knowledge, speed, and ownership. To develop a more effective crisis communications strategy, we need to understand trust. Many social media crises, such as brands saying something inappropriate, stem from failures of integrity. Christopher S.