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ICON 2023 Q&A: Talking Crisis Communications With Amazon’s Barbara Agrait

PRSay

16, she shared her international perspective to students in a session titled “Diverse Roots, Universal Impact: Humanizing Reputation and Crisis Communications.” ” Beforehand, Agrait talked with PRsay about crisis management. The problem that sometimes exists is conflicting information when there is a crisis.

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Twitter’s ‘Blue Check’ Chaos Erodes Trust in Crisis Communications

PRSay

Especially in a crisis situation, [Twitter is] a way to share information with the greatest number of people,” said Donyale Padgett, a professor of communication studies at Wayne State University in Detroit. Twitter granted gray check marks to official government accounts, but then rescinded them.

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Three Steps to Successful Crisis Communication

Melissa Agnes

Crisis communication is one of the most important aspects of your crisis management. In fact, whom you communicate with in a crisis, along with when and how you communicate with them, can mean the difference between successful crisis management and crisis management failure. Candidates.

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TCIP #002 – Strategizing Social Media for Crisis Communications with Isaac Griberg

Melissa Agnes

Welcome to episode #002 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast with Melissa Agnes and Isaac Griberg of the ICRC. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is doing ground-breaking things when it comes to leveraging social media for crisis communications and emergency management. Running time: 38:17. Get connected!

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A Look at Malaysia Airlines’s Crisis Communications During the Crisis of Flight MH370

Melissa Agnes

By now, we’ve all heard of the terrible crisis Malaysia Airlines is facing with flight MH370 appearing to have vanished out of thin air with over 200 passengers and crew members aboard. So how is Malaysia Airlines handling this crisis? A Look at Malaysia Airlines’s Crisis Communications.

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A Look At Academic Research on Crisis Communication From #AEJMC14

Melissa Agnes

I’m always interested in seeing what’s being studied in universities these days, as well as the academic’s approach to the theoretical side of crisis communication, and so this day of observation and interaction was very fascinating for me. In terms of the crisis communication research.

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SolarWinds’ cyberattacks: A lesson in crisis communications management

Axia PR

After a major breach of SolarWinds’ network management software, various entities, including companies and government agencies, had various reactions in order to manage the crisis. This post discusses the cybersecurity saga and how companies can implement efficient crisis communications management.