Posts Tagged ‘Crisis Management’
Lendio Guest Post: Is Your Business Prepared to Deal with the Shaking?
August 25th, 2011
We’ve just gone online with another guest post at Lendio, this one on the basics of crisis management for small businesses. As we just experienced the Great DC Earthquake of …
Read MoreSo When Did Conflict of Interest Come in Style?
August 18th, 2011
Well, we can’t say we haven’t tried to help Conde Nast! Not once, not twice… but three times now a member of the publishing conglomerate has committed a major PR …
Read MoreEven a Fake PR Crisis Needs Management!
August 8th, 2011
You might have see recent news reports that a firm called “AptiQuant” issued research findings that showed Microsoft Internet Explorer users had lower IQs than people who used other web …
Read MoreDon’t Think Prior Crisis PR Planning Is Important? Talk to Airbnb.
August 4th, 2011
The recent scandal involving Airbnb, the social media platform for home sharing and couch surfing, portends the most fundamental lesson in PR crisis management: It’s a hell of a lot …
Read MoreMove Over Vogue — GQ’s the Conde Nast Crisis Du Jour
July 28th, 2011
What is it with members of the Conde Nast family and stepping in it, over and over, with both feet? As you may recall, Vogue Magazine pulled off arguably the …
Read MoreNews Of The World Had No Choice Other Than to Shut Down
July 7th, 2011
It’s certainly a breathtaking moment in the media industry when a globally infamous publication like News of the World, first launched in 1843, suddenly announces it will shut down in …
Read MoreWhen Not to Do a Press Conference
June 16th, 2011
Today Anthony Weiner resigned from Congress in the wake of his Twitter scandal. We’ll leave it to others to pass moral judgment on his behavior; rather, we’re more interested in …
Read MoreThe Social Media Back-Up Strategy
June 14th, 2011
We’ve written before about the importance of crisis management when it comes to data breaches and hacking. This crisis scenario is real and every week brings another victim. The IMF, the …
Read MoreHow and Why Scandals Follow Companies – and What to Do about It
May 19th, 2011
Today’s sex scandal news is not about DSK, but rather Munich Re, a German insurance conglomerate that’s got quite a bit on its hands… or wrists? Turns out that company …
Read MoreCrises, Crises Everywhere, and Not a Plan to Use
May 9th, 2011
Finally! DC is getting its spring, and leaving winter weather behind – we’ll take it even as late as May if we have to, but… one thing that never goes …
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