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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.

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Amazon case study: Should rank-and-file employees be speaking on behalf of brands?

Communications Conversations

Huge media buzz. Huge legs on social media. But, along the way, we heard from one surprising source as the story unfolded: An Amazon employee. So much so, that is was then referred to in many media stories after the initial story in the Times. Meanwhile, 52 percent trust employees of that same company. Huge story.

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Letter from BETT

Stephen Waddington

Check out Flipgrid , a free social platform from Microsoft that enables teachers to creates social media communities around lessons and encourage student to share. It’s a useful tool for real time marketing, crisis and newsjacking work. Edelman suggests that a new contract has emerged between employer and employee.

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Maximising resilience of health and well-being assets in crisis situations

PR Conversations

The following is the result of our subsequent shared musings concerning the impact of crisis situations on the health and well-being of public relations practitioners. In an ongoing crisis, operating on adrenaline for a prolonged period of time can be – and is often – physically and mentally harmful.

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Managing an Online Reputation – A practical book for dealing with a social media crisis

Norton's Notes

This is my review of a book called Managing Online Reputation: How to Protect Your Company on Social Media which is a book is written by Charlie Powell and produced by Palgrave Pocket Consultants. The furious customer is when a customer gets rather angry and vents his/her fury on social media, in order to get some kind of reaction.

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Top 3 Things to Resolve Before a Crisis Strikes

Beyond PR

Mistakes, misunderstandings, accidents, product failures, and employee misconduct are all risks that businesses face regularly. If managed especially well, few outside your crisis response team will even know something happened. If managed especially well, few outside your crisis response team will even know something happened.

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Guarding your organisation’s reputation is your responsibility – but how do you play a key role in shaping it?

PR in High Definition

This means that reputations are largely built by the experiences and interactions we hear from others – customers, partners, media, employees, candidates… even the ‘robots’ like Google and Alexa. To join you in developing a crisis communication handbook should a crisis arise – show them their role in the process.