Posts Tagged ‘communicating during crisis’

Best Practice Advice for Handling Crisis Communications

Wednesday, July 28th, 2021
We seem to live in an increasingly contentious world these days. Unfortunately, it’s also a world where news travels fast; bad news travels especially fast. The speed of communication in the 21st century is fueled by “citizen journalists” and crowdsourcing. Everyone and anybody can have a platform these days. And just about everyone these days is armed with smartphones that offer the ability to capture, record, and share whatever may be going on around them. Sometimes that can create positive exposure for companies and their senior leaders and spokespeople.
Sometimes that exposure, unfortunately, is negative and viral.

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