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3 Comm Tech Features to Control Your Crisis Comms Narrative

Presspage

While few try to make mistakes deliberately, every company needs to anticipate a crisis. The good news is that with a few simple precautions, you can breeze through any crisis while keeping your relationship with investors and customers intact. What is crisis comms and why is it important? That’s the bad news.

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Why You Should Hire a Crisis Communications Agency?

Prohibition

Having a crisis communication plan in place ahead of time reduces confusion, ensures an effective communication flow, and improves messaging timeliness during or after a crisis. The basics of good crisis communications are the same for every company. What causes a crisis to go viral?

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Crisis Communications & Social Media When “It” Hits the Fan

PRSay

To be an expert in crisis communications you have to move your organization at the speed of Twitter when “it” hits the fan. How long does it take your organization to send out your first official public statement or news release when a crisis happens? It’s time to face the music. Within minutes he posted a video to the web.

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8 Steps to Create the Ultimate Crisis Communication Plan

Cision

Without a crisis communication plan in place to stop threats from escalating to crises, brands often fail to save their reputations from becoming tarnished. Want to learn how to crush a crisis before it begins? Peter advises implementing these eight steps into your crisis communication plan: 1. Identify Influencers.

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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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Does Your Crisis Scenario Plan Need Some Love?

Cision

A few years ago, many of us would not have envisioned a world where Twitter, Facebook Live and large-scale community gatherings would have such an impact on the way crises develop. Yet, this is our world today and our “new normal” as communicators and crisis management teams. Open that document up and marvel at your smarts!

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How to Recover From a Brand Crisis

Cision

Verticals don’t matter; a B2B brand is just as likely as a B2C or nonprofit to face a crisis at some point. Establish a crisis communication plan now rather than later. According to Burston-Marstellar , the brands that recoup and recover the fastest are the ones with well-documented policies. Follow words with actions.

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