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When Designing Controls Around Your Crisis Communications, Don’t Do This!

Melissa Agnes

One of the challenges of communicating effectively in times of viral issue and crisis management is ensuring that your brand’s communications are consistent across every stakeholder group, region and department. Crisis communication is complex, dynamic and critically important to get right.

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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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PR Glossary: 30 Key Terms and Insights Every Professional Should Know

Newsfile

PR professionals use this data to assess sentiment, measure reach, identify emerging issues, and adjust communication strategies accordingly. How Do You Measure Media Coverage? Measuring media coverage involves quantifying the impact and visibility of PR efforts. What are the Basics of Crisis Communication Planning?

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Understanding the Defense Tech Industry and the Role of Public Relations

5W PR

Forget the Silicon Valley playbook of viral trends and flashy apps. To protect against these risks, a strong crisis communication plan is essential. Key steps include training spokespersons, carefully crafting preemptive messages, and maintaining open lines of communication with stakeholders.

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Today, we say goodbye to HARO [PR Tech Sum 52]

Sword and the Script

sent out a tweet that went viral so quickly – the CMO came to my desk to see if I was okay. “He This latest move may make financial sense, but it’s the second serious crisis communications distraction for the company in Europe. Measurement templates. Om Malik , who was behind the very popular Business 2.0

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To Improve Crisis-Response Plans, Bring in a Red Team

PRSay

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.

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The Sexy Allure Of Crisis Management Is Presenting Risk To Organizations

Melissa Agnes

Thanks to high-profile crises, viral issues, and fun television series like Scandal , crisis management is being seen more and more as a “sexy” and thrilling profession or service offering. Their current crisis management firm is not delivering practical deliverables. What happens when you give faulty advice to a client in need?