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PR Golden Turkey Awards

Flack's Revenge

Please note that I am not writing just about customer service, product quality, security breaches or other kinds of fails; this blog is careful not to confuse these things with PR and crisis management thereof. The company botched one of the first rules of crisis response: avoid the drip, drip, drip of piecemeal information.

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So Farah, not so good Freuds

Mark My Words

Read the opening paragraphs of athlete Mo Farah’s Wikipedia page and you’ll be confronted bya roll call of records sufficient to fill the sports category of several Trivial Pursuit decks. Much of the chatter has centred on Farah’s choice of crisis managers, Freuds. And the bigger the star the bigger the spike.

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How to Deal with Harmful, Possibly Defamatory Yelp Reviews

Melissa Agnes

On its “ FAQ ” page, Yelp warns uses of potential legal consequences for posting false information, while hyperlinking to the Wikipedia entry for “libel.” Business owners can post a public comment or privately message an author of a review. Fortunately, Yelp does not tolerate defamatory content.

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Preview of my PRSA Talk, "Hacking Public Relations"

Where the Fishermen Ain't

This Sunday, I will be delivering my talk " Hacking Public Relations " at the PRSA International Conference in Philadelphia. There''s a preview over at the Edelman Digital site : Everyone can agree that the complexity involved in public relations and marketing has skyrocketed in the past decade. Friday5: Let’s Hack Public Relations.

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#19: Building a framework for reputation management

NewsWhip

Deploying crisis management teams | Jump to text. Chris: So if anyone’s behind a computer right now, we can all go to Wikipedia, right? And we can see, what does Wikipedia say? It starts with public interest and then carries over to media interest. The relationship between risk and innovation | Jump to text.

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The Field of Emergency Management: Why It Is Not A Profession

Melissa Agnes

The former one-way flow of warnings, information and updates from emergency management to the affected public has become, not just a two-way system, but one of many partners, sources and systems. And, can they accomplish their many tasks in real time or rapidly enough to protect the public from harm? References.

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28 Observations from 28 Months as a Solo PR

ZudePR

When I’m not doing a good job for clients, I write about digital PR/marketing for publications including Social Media Examiner , SEMRush , PR Daily , PR Moment , MuckRack , and Business2Community. Spot on, Wikipedia. I’m a 43-year-old traditional-media-relations-guy-turned-digital-PR. I’ve always been very competitive ; obsessively so.