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Just Because You Get Away With Something For A While, Doesn’t Mean You Will Forever

Melissa Agnes

The hotel’s (ludicrous) policy was posted to their website last year, yet it only went viral against them last week. This is important to realize and here’s why: Just because you get away with something for a while, it in no way means that you’ll get away with it forever – not in today’s virally connected world.

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Determining Influence: Don’t Rely Solely on Number of Followers

Melissa Agnes

When asked how they determine whether or not a negative comment or post is worth paying attention to (in other words, can it potentially escalate into a crisis), most organizations will respond “we look at the influence of the individual or company responsible for the post” But what does this really mean?

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Coming Out on Top of a PR Crisis

Critical Mention

They have all been in the news for being involved in a crisis in the past couple of years. The lists go on and on when it comes to crisis communications case studies. As I have shared with students and young professionals, if you go into crisis communications, you will always have a case to discuss and work to do.

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Lesson From Facebook: 5 Tips on Handling Crisis Communications

Shift Communications

Crisis communications is the opposite of traditional public relations and involves putting out a “ fire ” of some sort. In most cases when a company is faced with a crisis they often mess up the initial response. Most recently, Facebook just experienced the classic example of a crisis communications case study.

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Why You Should Hire a Crisis Communications Agency?

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Having a crisis communication plan in place ahead of time reduces confusion, ensures an effective communication flow, and improves messaging timeliness during or after a crisis. The basics of good crisis communications are the same for every company. The basics of good crisis communications are the same for every company.

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6 Best Practices for Identifying and Reacting to a PR Crisis

Cision

Crisis communication is an important aspect of most PR roles. In the Journal of Marketing Management, a group of British researchers write that crisis communication has “implications for brand equity and consumers’ purchase intentions.” So we may be in “crisis” far more often than we are in crisis.

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TCIP #050 – Online Shaming with Garth Rowan

Melissa Agnes

Welcome to episode #050 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Garth Rowan. From female reporters being spontaneously and continually harassed during live reporting, to individuals making mistakes caught on camera and ending up losing their jobs as a result of the footage going viral. Connect with us!