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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. Let me explain.

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State of Crisis Communications and Social Media from a Professor’s Perspective

Waxing UnLyrical

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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Does Your Crisis Scenario Plan Need Some Love?

Cision

Loop in HR, accounting, customer service, area managers and people who have a feel for your operations and your geographic regions. Heck, bust this thing out and use it as a team-building exercise. Crisis Comms Webinar Today: Want to learn more about crisis communications planning? Share it! .

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How To Identify your Crisis Plan’s Blind Spots

Melissa Agnes

These attacks can and do come from anybody – from angry customers to unlawful competitors – and require legal and crisis communication expertise to manage. Risk 3: A lack of bandwidth can leave you without a crisis communication home base. Who should be involved in this exercise? Operations.

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How To Identify your Crisis Plan’s Blind Spots

Melissa Agnes

These attacks can and do come from anybody – from angry customers to unlawful competitors – and require legal and crisis communication expertise to manage. Risk 3: A lack of bandwidth can leave you without a crisis communication home base. Who should be involved in this exercise? Operations.

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10 Crisis Communication Tips Every Business Needs

Prohibition

When a crisis hits the news, we are reminded of a valuable lesson: that companies and businesses often have to act fast in order to prevent further damage from taking place. Crisis communications is an important aspect to tackle as a business owner. This guide is written to assist in every aspect of crisis communication.

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Misinformation 2.0: Deepfakes are the biggest threat to media today

PR in High Definition

Then, of course, there’s the crisis communications element. In a hypothetical example of a doctored video depicting racist abuse by a customer service representative in a big brand’s shop, it will be the responsibility of the PR team to communicate that the incident did not occur and is instead a deepfake.

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