Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

And you don’t need to be a major brand or organization to have this risk threaten your very livelihood. How to minimize the risk of a data breach crisis. Side note: Are you curious about how mobile technology leaves you and your organization vulnerable? Tips for this communication: Do not sugar-coat anything.

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Cision

MARCH 30, 2016

Not every company needs to hire a PR firm to manage its crisis communication. If you’ve got a solid marketing team, you can build your own DIY plan to ensure that if there ever is a PR crisis that threatens your business, you can keep it contained and prevent it from doing further damage. Tip 2: Imagine a Worst-Case Scenario.

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Cision

AUGUST 28, 2015

Crisis communication pros use the term “vulnerability audit.” Does your brand come into contact with any of those issues? Are you ready for a crisis? Click here to get Cision’s free crisis communication tip sheet! Determine communication channels. Here are six ideas: 1. Identify vulnerabilities.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Crisis communications in the public relations world can have many different interpretations depending on who you ask, but here’s the fundamental definition: you’re trying to mitigate damage to your company’s reputation by third party sources. The crisis communications equivalent of denying fuel for the fire.

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Onclusive

APRIL 22, 2021

The best way to prepare for a crisis is to invest in a crisis communications response and management program. In a time of crisis, communicators need to act decisively and quickly with transparent responses. However, with structure, you can put together an effective crisis communications plan.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

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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Shift Communications

JANUARY 22, 2018

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.

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Onclusive

JUNE 29, 2018

This month, AirPR hosted the webinar “How to Protect Your Brand in a PR Crisis.” Moderated by Heidi Sullivan, President of HKSully Consulting, the webinar outlined best practices in the New PR world of rapid-response and all-way communication. From Facebook to Starbucks, no brand is safe from a communications crisis.

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Shift Communications

JULY 26, 2022

By Amanda Munroe, SVP, Technology Practice. In our Workplace Tech and Services practice at SHIFT, we’ve worked with clients on building up narratives around the resulting labor shortage and what it means to the American worker, workplace technology adoption and the future of work. The post Is Your Brand Messaging Recession-Ready?

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 23, 2019

The report broke out answers from CEOs and in-house communicators to some of those questions for comparison purposes which reveals gaps (the demographics section reported 760 of the PR respondents came from in-house communications teams – and the rest from agencies). 1) A Difference in Communications Goals.

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Onclusive

APRIL 29, 2021

That’s why media monitoring, sentiment analysis and competitive intelligence gathering are your best friends in a time of crisis. It is also critical to be able to measure how your response is resonating with your intended audiences and how your brand reputation is faring during a crisis. brand reputation)?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The PR Daily newsletter provides not just the top headlines of the day, but in-depth insight and strategies for everything from crisis communications to the future of PR. From business to technology to media, Axios delivers the news in a way that’s quick and painless for PR pros to take in.

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Cision

JUNE 27, 2015

A post-crisis plan is just as essential as a pre- or mid-crisis plan. Follow these four steps to identify what worked, establish what needs improvement and prepare your crisis communication team should your brand end up in a similar situation in the future. Update your crisis communication plan.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2024

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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Cision

JULY 31, 2015

Crises happen to every brand, no matter how big or small they are. Verticals don’t matter; a B2B brand is just as likely as a B2C or nonprofit to face a crisis at some point. When one happens to your brand, will you recover? Establish a crisis communication plan now rather than later. Next, share the story.

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Cision

MARCH 25, 2016

Nearly every brand is on social, but 48 percent of the communication professionals manning those channels feel the risks of a crisis outweigh the benefits social provides. Brands can’t control the message on social. Those that do, however, can determine if a crisis is worth responding and how to react.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

When Carnival Cruise Line was faced with several crises back in 2012 and 2013 , it was a deficit that many brand experts predicted would take at least four years to dig out of. Want more insights on how your brand can combat a crisis? Read the crisis communications white paper! Then, it’s time to get to work.

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Onclusive

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This initiative can be anything from a new product launch, to a proposal to increase spend on a branding campaign, or a significant investment with a new agency—to name a few. A business case can also help you demonstrate the value of PR and communications for your brand. Improved technology is on the wish list, as well.

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Prohibition

AUGUST 24, 2023

The food industry faces numerous challenges – brand awareness, customer retention and most importantly food safety. Their expertise lies in managing communication and reputation for food-related businesses, including restaurants, food manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. This is where food PR agencies excel.

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Reputation Us

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

percent of the market capitalization of the world’s 15 leading equity market indices, according to the group’s 2020 corporate reputation value drivers report: “ What price reputation? ” (“Future-potential” sectors, such as technology, telecom and healthcare help drive the value up.) This is based on the value of reputation accounting for 35.3

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

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).

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Landis PR

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you can get your planning right today, you’ll have an aligned brand message with business objectives, enhance visibility, and be able to build enduring relationships with your audience. Here’s a comprehensive guide on how to construct a communications strategy that seamlessly dovetails with your company’s growth plans.

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PRSay

APRIL 2, 2020

Now, more than ever, journalists are relying on every type of video chat technology to get interviews, including Skype, FaceTime, Google Meet, Zoom and more. And always be ready with a backup plan if the technology fails. Communicators can also be the “helpers” to the media right now. Photo credit: shutterstock.

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PRSay

JUNE 7, 2021

A red team can expose reputational vulnerabilities in a company and flaws in its crisis-response plan. From a crisis-communications standpoint, a red team stress-tests an organization’s strategy by expanding the circle of feedback the plan receives. Illustration credit: astel design ].

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Onclusive

JANUARY 25, 2019

Staying on top of the latest trends, technologies and strategies is paramount. The conference features over 120 sessions and workshops presented by the leading brand marketers and experts from around the world covering strategy, storytelling, ROI, demand generation, AI, and more. ContentTECH Summit. Dates: April 8-10, 2019.

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Landis PR

APRIL 29, 2024

The blog covers Finland’s history of innovation and current investment opportunities, particularly in sectors like bio & circular economy and sustainable technology. For us, communications is the world’s most powerful tool for change. For the original blog, please visit here.

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Cision

JUNE 16, 2015

No brand is free from crises. They can happen to anyone, anywhere and anytime, so all organizations must be prepared in the event that a crisis spreads. Having a crisis communication plan in place will help your brand weather the worst crises and come out on top. Click here for our free white paper now!

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 25, 2019

Those can count the loss of trust among customers, a hit for the brand, company reputation, and potentially, revenue. This goes beyond crisis communications. It can range from the technology tools marketing uses – to measures aimed at prevention and user education around the products sold.

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Remote PR Jobs

MAY 26, 2023

As an entrepreneur or business owner, you may have considered hiring a freelance PR professional to help you build your brand and increase your visibility. In such a competitive industry, finding a PR Freelancer that best suits your needs can be difficult. How do you know who to choose? How much should you pay them?

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Onclusive

MARCH 8, 2018

This big data explosion means that PR pros now need to rise above the noise of more content than ever, in addition to managing brand reputation with more contacts than ever. Wendy provided a few wake-up stats for PR professionals about AI: 45% of paid activities could be automated by adapting currently demonstrated technologies.

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5W PR

OCTOBER 31, 2023

10 Networking Events for PR Professionals In the fast-paced world of public relations (PR) and marketing, staying updated with the latest trends, technologies, and strategies is vital. In an era of digital noise, it’s crucial for brands to stand out while fostering meaningful connections with consumers.

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Offleash

JULY 19, 2023

News flash: We work in technology. Technology is always changing, disrupting, reshaping, and often improving how we work. At Offleash, we are leveraging AI-powered tools as we have any promising new technology: to provide efficiency, better data, and insights that we can learn from and pass along to our clients.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

JANUARY 23, 2024

Your marketing and public relations (PR) campaigns are vital methods of connecting and communicating with consumers. Just as a turn of phrase can shift consumer trust in a brand’s favor, a misjudged tone in the brand voice can also derail your efforts. Let’s explore this concept a little further.

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Prohibition

JANUARY 17, 2022

With the recent increase in the use of social media in crisis situations, organisations across all sectors need to understand the benefits of incorporating it into their crisis plan. In fact, most experts agree that social media needs to be treated as a vital part of any company’s crisis communication plan.

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The Hoffman Agency

AUGUST 21, 2019

Following the lead of other companies such as LinkedIn , we decided to host Bring Your Family to Work Day so each of our team members could bring one or two family members to our office in Vancouver, Washington, for a little taste of our world: storytelling, PR, technology … and a happy hour, of course. How do you define PR? “A

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PRSay

MAY 15, 2019

Some of the familiar topics are there — branding, corporate social responsibility, crisis communications — but not necessarily in a form many of us would recognize as aspects of the profession we’ve come to know. So what’s on the minds of tomorrow’s professionals? Just about everything but public relations as we’ve practiced it.

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David PR Group

JUNE 27, 2014

Here’s why: Disruptive technology merits disruptive PR. While Lyft and Uber don’t want to be outlaw companies, I believe that a disruptive public relations strategy does mesh with a disruptive brand. When the confrontations started with local officials and police, local news outlets started covering the controversy with great verve.

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