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Employee Evangelists: Your Secret Social PR Weapon in a Crisis

Waxing UnLyrical

Social media has redefined crisis response in three important ways: outlet options, messaging speed and employee engagement. Social media also has compressed the speed of information transfer from hours to minutes or even seconds as a crisis develops. Employee evangelists are made, not born. A Reason to Speak.

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Your Guide for Data Breach Crisis Communication

Melissa Agnes

You have a responsibility to your customers, clients, members, employees and even to your organization to take this initiative. How to minimize the risk of a data breach crisis. If so, how secure it your email service provider and are your employees required to change their passwords regularly? Tweet this!). Until it does.

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Business Crisis Management: Why Press Releases Are Important

PR Fuel

Almost 70-percent of businesses recently surveyed experienced a crisis in the past five years. Negative information about your business can travel quickly, and crisis management is critical. How you handle a business crisis reveals your character and skill at handling a catastrophe. Gives Necessary Information. Shows Initiative.

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The 10 Most Important Digital Age Crisis Lessons

PRSay

As the context and speed in which crises unfold in the digital age shifts, so does the task of crisis preparedness. Every week we talk to some of the 750-plus organizations which use our In Case of Crisis mobile app. We also meet with many others who are considering how to best upgrade their issues and crisis responsiveness.

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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. It's designed to minimize fussing, mobilize resources, and control the most nonstandard situation.

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Communication Challenges for your PR Team in 2023: World Communication Week

The Proactive Report

No matter what business you are in, it’s vital to level up your communication skills, so that you can effectively reach customers, clients, and employees. Your PR team needs to be ready to address any crisis that starts on social media and escalates to other traditional media. Why is communication so important? Fake content.

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3 Relationships That Shift During a Crisis

Cision

A crisis can strike your brand at any moment on any social media platform. And no matter the scenario — data breach, employee scandal or hashtag hijacking — your brand will almost immediately find itself under scrutiny. By identifying the right places and people to mobilize. Ready to prepare an active strategy?

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