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Crisis Management Lessons From Boeing’s 737 Max Disasters

PRSay

Gordon Johndroe , vice president of global media relations and public affairs for the Chicago-based aircraft manufacturer, spoke to members of PRSA’s Corporate Communications Section in the Nov. 5 webinar “Crisis Management on an International Stage: Takeaways from Boeing’s Biggest Crisis and Time Spent in the West Wing.”.

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Ranger Scott Gediman on the Ferguson Fire and 22 Years as Yosemite Park’s Public Affairs Officer

PRSay

Over his 22 years as public affairs officer at Yosemite National Park , Scott Gediman has experienced a myriad of crises on the job, from floods and rock falls to hantavirus outbreaks. “It It seems like my life here is a perpetual crisis,” said Gediman, a longtime PRSA member. Do you also manage social media for the park?

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Leading With Ethics During COVID-19

PRSay

We provided weekly training sessions to ensure that public affairs officers could hone their skills. The combined efforts led to improved communications in a short amount of time in the middle of the evolving public health pandemic. We also alerted VHA leadership as to what we were hearing, and they were able to respond.

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Maximising resilience of health and well-being assets in crisis situations

PR Conversations

It may be that practitioners highlight the issue during planning discussions, engage with HR or their leadership team. I am sure there are statistics somewhere that record the number of employees who stick around long term after a crisis has occurred and if there aren’t, then there should be.

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An “Interview” with ChatGPT: What is Public Relations? How Has PR Changed? Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Comms Pros?

Sword and the Script

Social media: PR practitioners may manage an organization’s social media accounts and use them to communicate with the public and promote the organization. Event planning: PR practitioners may plan events such as product launches, conferences, or charity events to get media attention and generate positive publicity.

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Six social media and digital communications trends for 2015

PR Conversations

As a result of the recent course, I’ve been reflecting on how in 2015, professional use of social media and digital communications will be essential for anyone working in PR, internal communications, public affairs, marketing and many other functions, in almost every type of organisation.

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#15: Real-time decision-making with Kate LaVail of McDonald’s

NewsWhip

And so those three groups work along with a number of external functions within McDonald’s, such as public affairs and government relations, sustainability to really develop a honed intelligence that is both strategic and also very much focused on the reputational role of McDonald’s. And then we also have reputational risk.