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• Tiger Woods PR Strategy Revealed

  
  The Big Guy Blog — Authority: 123
  It seems as if Tiger has fallen on the sword and is trying to keep his car crash story under wraps. However, like a shot from the bunker, its going to be hard to get up and out: WINDERMERE, Fla. (AP) - Tiger Woods says the car crash that sent him to the hospital is his fault and has become embarrassing to him and ...
  5 hours ago

• What YouTube Direct means for the post-media world

  
  Crisisblogger — Authority: 117
  The movement toward a true post-mainstream media world took another big leap forward with the announcement last week of YouTube Direct. There’s been lots of talk, including on this blog, about how the 300 million plus people walking around with smartphones are the electronic newsgathering network of today. And ...
  6 days ago

• When a Statement Makes the Wrong Statement

  
  Tanner Friedman Blog — Authority: 120
  In the world of public relations and marketing communications two time-worn (and, I would argue, ‘worn out’) tools are the press release and the written statement. Both are issued publicly, typically relayed via media and online platforms and both, while written, can oftentimes speak unintended volumes about those ...
  1 week ago

• Can social media help in a crisis? Hospital shows how in Fort Hood shooting.

  
  Crisisblogger — Authority: 117
  Since I talk a lot about social media and crisis communication these days, I’m often asked for specific examples of how social media works in a major crisis. Here’s a great example, thanks to Kitty Allen at Harris County Hospital District I was pointed to how Scott and White hospital , the closest Level 1 trauma ...
  1 week ago

• Hackers Help Develop Crisis Management Tools

  
  Bernstein Crisis Management Blog — Authority: 123
  With coders from the likes of Google, Microsoft, NASA and Yahoo!, the hackers at the first ever Random Hacks of Kindness event are far from the stereotype most would imagine. These elite of the programming world gathered together at this contest to not only create tools for disaster relief, but hopefully inspire ...
  1 week ago

• Handling Workplace Violence

  
  Bernstein Crisis Management Blog — Authority: 123
  Violence striking the workplace is a nightmare scenario for any organization. Unfortunately, the ugly reality is that these things can and do happen, as has once again been made apparent by several recent workplace shootings, all occurring within one week of each other. A recent article from BusinessInsurance.com ...
  1 week ago

• Misbehaving on Allegiant Air

  
  Bernstein Crisis Management Blog — Authority: 123
  Anyone who has children knows they can be a handful, especially among the chaos of boarding an airplane, which causes stress to many adults. Apparently though, the folks at Allegiant Air are not too sympathetic. After an Arizona moms young children, with whom she was traveling alone, became restless and began crying ...
  2 weeks ago

• Maclaren Recall Crisis

  
  Bernstein Crisis Management Blog — Authority: 123
  Safe to say the management team at Maclaren is having a terrible week. On Monday its U.S. subsidiary issued a press release announcing a recall of every baby stroller it has sold in the United States in the past decade — which means about one million units. The purpose is to install a cover for the strollers hinge ...
  2 weeks ago

• PRSA Conference Keynote Bob Garfield–hitting all the right notes

  
  Crisisblogger — Authority: 117
  I’ve read Bob Garfield for years and am sorry I am missing the PRSA conference this year–first year in many that I’ve missed it. The report of Garfield’s keynote is right on target in my mind and very necessary for crisis communicators. The message is simple–it’s a completely different world out there. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Taking an Advantage

  
  Bernstein Crisis Management Blog — Authority: 123
  Social media continues to create waves as more and more organizations and influential individuals climb on board. The advantages these platforms provide for crisis management are clear, as a recent blog post by social media consultant Richard Stacy explained: Social media allows you to communicate directly with ...
  2 weeks ago

• Can You Keep A Secret?

  
  Tanner Friedman Blog — Authority: 120
  Bad news travels fast. You don’t have to be a professional communicator to know that. The old adage is especially true inside large corporations in today’s age of instant, personal communications. But even with the odds stacked against them, some companies can keep secrets, or at least bad news under wraps ...
  2 weeks ago

• Searching and Monitoring–more important and more powerful than ever

  
  Crisisblogger — Authority: 117
  For the past few months whenever I have been presenting to groups on crisis communication or Joint Information Center operations I have said that the most important job of crisis communication today is rumor management. It most certainly is not putting out press releases, and it may not be that important to put out ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rhode Island Hospitals Response Seems Weak

  
  Communicating Through a Crisis — Authority: 112
  Am I missing something? Nancy commented on my post below regarding Rhode Island Hospital, which operated on the wrong body part five times since 2007. Her link took me to an "Ask the president about patient safety at Rhode Island Hospital" site. There, the president defends the hospital for making mistakes. ("We ...
  2 weeks ago

• Big Mistake

  
  Bernstein Crisis Management Blog — Authority: 123
  Most hospitals strive to maintain a reputation of compassion and care, so when a purported billing department error at the UC Davis Medical Center caused a terse letter to be sent to the parents of a tragically deceased student, it hatched a crisis management nightmare. Another startling article from The Consumerist ...
  2 weeks ago

• Upon Further Review: Communications in Cleveland Inconsistent

  
  Tanner Friedman Blog — Authority: 120
  The recent blog on Cleveland Browns GM Randy Lerner sparked a slew of comments to my Facebook link , including from a couple of Cleveland Browns fans and former Cleveland residents. A few disagreed with my contention that Lerner’s recent meeting with two high-profile fans demonstrated some degree of communications ...
  3 weeks ago

• Reaching out in a moment of darkness with a virtual hand: The impact of social media with the Fort Hood tragedy

  
  Karens Public Relations Blog — Authority: 123
  The horrible event that occurred a few days ago at Fort Hood has been on everyone’s mind.  My thoughts and prayers go out to all of the families, soldiers, and the entire Fort Hood community in this horrific event.   May God give them the strength and courage to overcome this. When I first heard about this ...
  3 weeks ago

• Crossing the Line

  
  Bernstein Crisis Management Blog — Authority: 123
  While retail stores certainly have the right to detain suspected shoplifters, there is a line that can be crossed. According to a story posted on The Consumerist , a Michigan WalMart has been accused of not just crossing that line, but taking a flying leap over it. The details: In the case of a couple accused of ...
  3 weeks ago

• How does social media affect crisis management?

  
  Morgan McLintic on PR — Authority: 409
  Socialmedia is making crisis management more important in public relations.Its changing the number of crises, their speed, rate of proliferationand the response mechanism. Lets look at the impact social media ishaving on crisis comms, and what that means to us as communicators: Frequency - there are more crises ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cleveland Browns Owner Communicates With Fans

  
  Tanner Friedman Blog — Authority: 120
  Are you paying attention, Detroit Lions? As Drew Sharp reports in today’s Detroit Free Press , William Clay Ford, Sr. should take notice of an outstanding move made this week by Cleveland Browns owner Randy Lerner, who actually sat down with fans to talk about the team.  The mini-summit, involving two longtime ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Lessons from Ford Firestone crisis still important today

  
  Crisisblogger — Authority: 117
  Yesterday I had the distinct privilege of hosting Jon Harmon presenting a webinar to our PIER Strategy Forum. Jon is the former chief of PR for Ford trucks and was the lead crisis communicator for Ford during the infamous Ford/Firestone crisis of 2000. Jon has written a very compelling book about this event called ...
  3 weeks ago

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