Tag Archives: Crisis Communications

Facebook, Txt at U of Minn for Crisis Communications

I saw yesterday that the University of Minnesota had developed a text-messaging system for quick notification of students, faculty and staff in the event of a campus emergency. Then today in my list of Facebook groups recently joined by my friends, I saw that they have a Facebook group for the same purpose. I think [...]
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Facebook, Texts Warn Students of Gunmen

Crisis communications plans, as I said earlier and as Dennis McDonald agrees, should have some kind of social media component, whether they use Facebook or Twitter or some other way of delivering text messages, along with “dark site” blogs. The main idea is to build in multiple levels of redundancy for your communications, because no [...]
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Facebook and Twitter: Off-Label Uses

Too many people look at the latest social media gadgets and can’t get beyond first impressions and what’s on the packaging. They see the “What are you doing?” interface at the top of Twitter and they say, “How pointless and narcissistic is that?” “Who cares what I’m doing right now?” And “Why would I care [...]
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Week in Review

Highlights of the last week: Facebook in USA Today A personal note on “Labor” Day Blogs as a tool for PR Clip reporting (and an example of how that works) Sen. Ted Stevens, Miss South Carolina Teen USA Caitlin Upton and misunderstandings of Facebook A nice compliment from Ben Martin Facebook’s extremely low coefficient of [...]
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