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#measurePR Recap (April 2017): Measuring Financial Communications

Waxing UnLyrical

The April #measurePR chat fell the Thursday before Tax Day, so Shonali invited some of PR’s best financial communications pros with measurement advice for everyone—from those just starting out to seasoned pros. The next question went right to the heart of the specialized worlds of investor relations (IR) and financial comms.

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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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Staying Ahead of PR Crisis: Understanding Brand Reputation Through Media Monitoring

NewsWhip

Staying Ahead of PR Crisis: Understanding Brand Reputation Through Media Monitoring In the digital age, access to online information has created new expectations for businesses to choose how they present brand messages. PR crises have the potential to not only affect a brand’s reputation but also its market share and financial success.

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Communications Careers: Measuring Progress in Steps Through Peaks & Valleys

Deirdre Breakenridge

I recently read an inspirational tweet about progress being measured in steps. This is important because the measure of achievement is not about becoming a CEO, it’s about feeling that you’ve got to where you wanted and fulfilled your potential. A Guest Post Simon Erskine Locke, Founder & CEO of CommunicationsMatch TM.

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In praise of the CIPR and PRCA leading PR industry in COVID-19 crisis response

Stephen Waddington

The CIPR and PRCA have done an exceptional job in leading the industry in its response to the COVID-19 crisis. The PRCA has created a taskforce of 50+ advisors to help members manage their agencies and organisations through the COVID-19 crisis. They continue to lobby for measures for those operating as limited companies.

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Issue? Crisis? What’s The Difference and Why Is It Important?

Melissa Agnes

It’s a major mistake to treat issue and crisis as interchangeable terms. Issues can be the warning signs that a crisis is possible. And issue management can be regarded as a powerful tool for crisis prevention. In fact a crisis has been known to be described as an issue that WASN’T managed.

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COVID 19 and Crisis Communications

Solo PR Pro

The full impact of this outbreak from both a human and economic perspective can not yet be measured — and won’t be for some time to come. All good PR pros know you can be both reassuring and completely honest in a crisis- and in fact, the latter plays an important role in the former.” – Kellye Crane, Crane Communications.