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Can You Prevent Your Next Crisis?

Cision

It’s unlikely that you can do anything to avoid the instant virality of anything remotely salacious or damning to a company, its executives or its brand. Peter will present his free “ Crush Crises Before They Spread ” webinar on June 1o. Is prevention of a crisis possible? But all is not lost.

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Analyzing First Responders In Crisis PR

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

When a passenger’s video of water flooding a Carnival cruise ship hallway went viral on May 3, it spawned thousands of references to Titanic and some sensational news headlines. Starbucks routinely engages with its customers on Twitter and other social platforms, responding to many questions and customer service issues.

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How To Identify your Crisis Plan’s Blind Spots

Melissa Agnes

If a viral crisis were to strike and hundreds (or more) of people were to navigate to your corporate website for more information, would your website crash due to an overload of traffic? Customer service. Risk 3: A lack of bandwidth can leave you without a crisis communication home base. Marketing / Pr / Communications.

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Who Were The PR Winners And Losers of 2017?

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

The HQ2 search generated a frenzy of positive media coverage as well as 238 proposals from individual North American cities, and it helped cement Amazon’s status as a desired corporate neighbor and employer. As the world knows, UA hit turbulence with its disastrous handling of a passenger situation that was caught on video.

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Why it’s important to prepare for a PR crisis

Prohibition

Will your customer service team receive an increased amount of calls, what about your website and social media channels? Your social media team might already have something for responding to customer service issues. For huge brands and corporations, a crisis isn’t fun, but it can be managed.

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The importance of a social media strategy #engaging

Engage PR

A smart social strategy can help businesses develop lead generation, build brand awareness, drive customer acquisition and attract high performing talent. And as a customer service tool it can get critical messages out to the masses quickly when dealing with any crisis comms. Cue social backlash across the internet.

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The Most Recommended PR Tech Vendors [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

That’s a mouthful of buzzwords, but Ryan Reeves, a product manager for the company, added some context on LinkedIn: “Signals uses AI to continually read trillions of articles to detect important company trigger-events (viral articles, product launches, financials, partnerships, headcount changes, etc.) in 2019, reaching a record $4.5