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Does Your Crisis Scenario Plan Need Some Love?

Cision

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! As a team-centric PR and social crew, we are always updating our roles and responsibilities documents to ensure we have our aces in their places. in your local areas.

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2017 Crisis Management That (Mostly) Worked

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Armchair PR experts get lots of mileage from critiquing crisis management by major brands and businesses this time of year. But what about the crisis situations that are handled well? The passenger couldn’t produce the necessary medical documentation for her claim, and the airline had her taken off the flight.

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The 22 Responsibilities of PR and What They Entail

Onclusive

A subset of corporate communications work includes developing, documenting, and disseminating overarching corporate messaging. Crisis Communications There were some serious PR blunders in 2020. If those PR boo-boos didn’t show us the importance of having a crisis communications plan in place, we’re not sure what will.

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A Chapter Map: Planning to Prepare for Future Crises

PRSay

Find more articles on crisis communications in the May 2022 issue of Strategies & Tactics. As an incoming local Chapter president, I had a lengthy list of tasks to prepare for the new year — update the Chapter website, confirm the January program, write my newsletter column and plan the next board meeting. Not on my list?

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Impact of COVID-19 on NHS comms

Stephen Waddington

A new book describes the extraordinary achievements of NHS communication practitioners during the COVID-19 crisis. The impact of COVID-19 on NHS comms documents the scale of the challenge faced by professional NHS communicators since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic in early 2020. COVID-19 has driven the adoption of technology.

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The journey from lockdown

Stephen Waddington

The challenge with the COVID-19 crisis is that it requires an international governmental response and there are countless unknowns. Two useful documents that help with scenario planning have been published this week: The Roadmap to Pandemic Resilience published by the Edmond J. The crisis has widened the socio-economic gap in society.

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Communications in a Disaster Zone: The Stories You Choose Not to Tell

PRSay

Without any bodies, his local municipality wouldn’t issue the paperwork required to declare them deceased. We will document the most critical stories when we can. There was my colleague, who told us of the logistical challenges of obtaining a death certificate for his mother and sister who perished in the quake. I don’t know.