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When Designing Controls Around Your Crisis Communications, Don’t Do This!

Melissa Agnes

One of the challenges of communicating effectively in times of viral issue and crisis management is ensuring that your brand’s communications are consistent across every stakeholder group, region and department. Crisis communication is complex, dynamic and critically important to get right.

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Repairing Trust: Reputation Management and Crisis Communications

Shift Communications

How do we know what to fix in a PR crisis? In previous posts, we’ve shared the basic crisis triangle : Respond with knowledge, speed, and ownership. To develop a more effective crisis communications strategy, we need to understand trust. What constitutes a crisis in each branch of trust, in each of the cores?

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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. Within minutes he posted a video to the web. How long does it take your organization to send out your first official public statement or news release when a crisis happens? Are you even in the game?

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Your Guide for Data Breach Crisis Communication

Melissa Agnes

How to minimize the risk of a data breach crisis. If your website was hacked, what could that do to your reputation and how could it immobilize you? How to plan for and respond to a data breach crisis. Incorporate the following into your data breach crisis communications plan: Step 1: Co-mu-ni-cate!!

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Speak but be quiet. How to build crisis communication

Reputation Antistress by Sergii Bidenko

In essence, a crisis is a situation that doesn't fit into a person's or a company's previous experience. So often, getting over a crisis is very tough if we rely on common skills or verified knowledge. Acknowledge the problem The biggest mistake at the beginning stages of a crisis is to keep quiet and pretend nothing is happening.

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4 Creative PR Ideas for Crisis Communications

Sword and the Script

It may seem counterintuitive, but the ingenuity of deftly navigating the most difficult of binds goes to show PR is often as much about problem solving as it is communication. Corporate crisis communications provides a demonstration because there are very clear constraints: Unknown unknowns – the effort to understand what is happening.

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Every company should have a crisis handbook

PR in High Definition

It was made worse by the now infamous video of a woman being let go by two people she’d never met prior, and the company has come under fire from the media, previous employees, and even current staff. As such, a blueprint of how to handle a crisis should be in place for every business – big or small.