[Editor’s Note: The following post from Jerry Brown’s Monday Morning Media Minute newsletter addresses the issue of conducting crisis management without creating more risk through the methods and verbiage you put to use.] I think it’s safe to say things aren’t going well when you feel compelled to tell employees …
Crisis Management Quotables…on Why Hiding Doesn’t Cut It
Duck and cover is not a crisis management strategy Leave it to a legendary college football coach to understand dealing with the media! Paul “Bear” Bryant spent 25 years as the University of Alabama’s head coach, amassing an absolutely incredible 323-85-17 record and chalking up an immense number of press …
30 Lessons from 30 Years of Crisis Management
30 Lessons from 30 Years of Crisis Management Jonathan Bernstein got his start in crisis management when he helped launch one of the earliest crisis communications practices in the U.S. as part of a national PR office. Branching off to form Bernstein Communications, which would later become Bernstein Crisis Management, …
Customer Rage and Crisis Management Infographic
Why taking care of angry customers is a crisis management concern Making a habit of upsetting your customers is a sure path to crisis, yet many organizations still aren’t managing to keep folks happy. With the average consumer checking social media before making any major purchase and bad experiences being …
False CNN iReport on “Deadly” Asteroid Causes Panic
Allowing its name and logo on unvetted content leads to trouble for CNN CNN’s iReport is an attempt to put reporting in the hands of the people, but looked at from a crisis management standpoint, it’s full of reputation dangers for the network. CNN’s iReport allows amateur e-reporters to publish …
Antivirus Maker’s Crisis Management for Data Breach
More proof that nobody is invulnerable to cyber attacks In the last Crisis Manager of 2013, we predicted cyber crises would explode this year, and explode they have. What was once a fringe crime that often went unnoticed by both victims and the media has become big business, and it …
If a Bounce House Can Be the Site of a Crisis…
ANYONE can encounter crises In this blog we often repeat the message that every business needs a crisis management plan. In the real world, though, there seem to be many in lines of work where they just don’t see what the risks could be. If you fall into that category, …
Reputation Management Tips from the Financial Industry
A push for change in the world of finance holds lessons for other industries Preventing reputation threats caused by customer dissatisfaction is a common goal of crisis management, and for the financial world (and many other tightly regulated industries) it has the added benefit of helping you avoid running afoul …
Improve Your Online Reputation this Summer
A strong online reputation has quite a few benefits Getting serious about online reputation management is a win on many fronts. You’ll draw in more customers, head of crises before they can get started, and build a cushion of goodwill that will protect you from the impact of negative incidents. …
5 Steps to Monitoring Your Online Reputation
A key component to any Internet reputation management plan Without a doubt, reputation is your most valuable asset, and these days the fate of that asset will be decided online. Before you can even begin to consider how to best protect and grow your reputation, you need to get familiar …
Emerging Info Weakens GM’s Crisis Management Effort
How should the embattled automaker react? What do you think is one of the most damaging pieces of information that could emerge when you’re in the midst of crisis management for a massive mistake? If you said evidence that you’ve made that same mistake more than once, you must be …
Revealing Photos Land Candidate in Running for Weiner Awards
Don’t hurt your reputation by leaving private photos where the world can see Shoving their face between the breasts on a mannequin, sitting buck naked in a hammock drinking a beer, and stripping at a party. Sounds like Spring Break for a boozing college kid, right? Not so much. In …
Mary Barra, the Woman in the Hot Seat
[Editor’s note: The following guest post comes to us from the always-brilliant Merrie Spaeth, President of Spaeth Communications and creator of the infamous BIMBO Memo.] Mary Barra, GM’s new CEO, and the first woman to head a major car company, is scheduled to testify before Congress this week. The topic …
Social Media Crisis Management: When Do We Respond?
If you haven’t found yourself asking this question already, it’s coming To respond, or not to respond, and how the heck are we supposed to respond anyways? This is a question posed by those faced with a need for social media crisis management on a daily basis, and one to …
Fake Online Reviews and Your Business
Could this case set a new precedent when it comes to online reputation management and the law? No sooner did we finish discussing the fact that Yelp itself acknowledges 16% of the reviews submitted to its site to be fakes (which leaves, in our opinions, a significantly higher actual number …