How You Can Help Your Employee Experience in 2020 As communicators, HR professionals, and marketers, it’s important—now more than ever—to use best practices and unique employee engagement strategies. At ALI Conferences, we are committed to providing you up-to-date trends and tips to help manage your new challenges during this ever-changing time of crisis. As a
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Written by Masters In Communications.org In our hyper-technological world, communication methods change at an incredibly rapid pace. First there was email, then message boards, then instant messaging, then MySpace and Friendster, and now Facebook, Instagram, chatbots, Netflix, and dozens of other communication methods. There are always new technologies, and new ways for people to interact
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Written by Mike Hatcliffe, RockDove Solutions. Brands exist in what some describe as the ‘Age of Doubt’. Brand emergencies have increased in frequency. Crises occur more often. The escalation from troublesome issue to major threat evolves more quickly than ever. The new uncertain world for brands is explored by Brian Kelly, an experienced former CMO
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Written by Mike Hattcliffe, RockDove Solutions. Thanks to the Wall Street Journal, we got a fascinating glimpse of the behind the scenes response at Southwest Airlines in the immediate aftermath of the terrifying and tragic incident on April 17th, 2018 when an engine failed causing the death of a female passenger and endangering the lives of
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Why you have to consider the negative when making ad decisions How did an Australian clothing company wind up sending thousands of customers a marketing email that threatened to release compromising photos of them “everywhere”? While the idea is shocking, the way it most likely came to happen isn’t unusual. We see it often –
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Written by Kathryn Stokes, NAGC President Crisis communications planning has never been more important than it is today. The proliferation of social media has the ability to turn any event into an out-of-control news cycle in the blink of an eye. Social media may not be the culprit, but more often these days, groups use
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Written by: Jacqueline Strayer, New York University “When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” – John F. Kennedy. When lecturing to my graduate students about crisis I use this quote to launch discussion of the subject. Why? Because we often focus on
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