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The Art of Explaining: MHA’s Best Crisis Communications Resources    

MHA Consulting

The rise of the internet and social media has made crisis communications more challenging—and more critical—than ever. Companies need to be capable of communicating during crises they might face with the media and their internal and external stakeholders. This is more true than ever in the age of internet news and social media.

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Are You Protecting Your Reputation With A Plan?

Bernstein Crisis Management

As someone who’s seen it first-hand many times, I’ll guarantee those with prior planning and preparedness spend less money, lose less customers, generate less negative media coverage, and generally get back to ‘business as usual’ much more quickly than those without. What’s putting reputations at risk.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

What was previously forbidden by custom, practice, sanction and retribution becomes possible, even desirable, as the emerging group of looters frees itself from the shackles of normal constraint. Something similar has happened with the Internet and social media. Early views of social media (e.g. Bird et al. Bird et al.

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Emergency Planning

Consider, for example, the role of the Internet and social media. As they lend a sense of immediacy and connection, social media have strengthened that relationship, and never more than in times of disaster. The intervening years have produced conflicting signals. This is practical solidarity in its most direct form.

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The SEPA Cyber Attack a Case Study

Plan B Consulting

Social media has been used to promote the good work SEPA does and to try a portray it is business as usual. 4 Response Public and media sentiment on how well the incident has been managed 10 As the incident takes place during a holiday to date there has been no adverse comment on the incident.

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The SEPA Cyber Attack a Case Study

Plan B Consulting

Social media has been used to promote the good work SEPA does and to try a portray it is business as usual. 4 Response Public and media sentiment on how well the incident has been managed 10 As the incident takes place during a holiday to date there has been no adverse comment on the incident.