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 …

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So 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 …

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Even 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 …

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Don’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 …

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Move 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 …

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News 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 …

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When 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 …

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The 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 …

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How 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 …

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Crises, 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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