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Future of PR and social media for International Air Transport Association crisis communications conference

Stuart Bruce

Stuart Bruce speaking at the IATA Crisis Communications in the Social Media Age conference. (c) This morning I gave a keynote at the global ‘Crisis Communications in the Social Media Age’ conference in Istanbul. c) Donald Steel. But in fact it is just as likely to work in our favour as it is against.

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9 Little Stories from a One Time Public Relations Gig with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

Sword and the Script

3) Snakes do Drive Time Radio. What we learned along the way was that it also had the potential for broadcast radio as well. So, in the wee hours in the morning, we drove from downtown DC to the area radio stations in Gaithersburg, Md. for drive time morning radio. 8) A Serious Crisis Communications Plan.

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Maxim Behar: Social media has made the world better and more understandable, don't be afraid of it!

Maxim Behar

In his podcast a while ago, the basketball coach recounted how he had cut his ex-girlfriend's hair, but this excerpt was pulled again in the days when the web is boiling over the horrific case of abuse of the 18-year-old girl from Stara Zagora. This is not possible in print, on TV or radio stations.

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That Time Our Website Was Hacked

Waxing UnLyrical

So, as far as Web presence went, we still had the blog and the official Facebook and Twitter accounts. Crisis communication is not their role. Generally our eyes and ears are focused on traditional media (print, radio, television). How ready is your team for a crisis? Ironic, I know. Anyway…).

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7 Lessons Every Marketer Can Learn From The CrossFit Instagram Crisis

MaccaPR

The gym owner insisted these acts were “light hearted and fun” and defended his posts on radio as “we were having fun.we The certainty that your customers will turn to Yelp, Facebook and Twitter to ravage your brand on the web, with social posts that can live online as brand-mangling zombies for years.

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Engaging (and grilling) the social side of James Grunig

PR Conversations

I have long had an interest in the potential of cyber media (including discussion groups, listservs, web pages, blogs, and the new social media) for use in public relations. I thought the new media offered tremendous potential for environmental scanning, issues management, rumor control, and crisis communication.