Social media has the potential to bring friends and families closer together, and help businesses create deeper connections with their customers. Yet it can also sow division and serve as a conduit of misinformation, intentionally agitated by bad actors creating dissension and discord.
At a recent Houston Social Media Breakfast and Impact HUB Houston livestream event, Zoetica Media founder Kami Huyse invited Karen Naumann, APR, PMP to talk about misinformation, read more...
Navigating the Changing Online Landscape for Communicators
A few weeks ago I had the chance to sit down with Shel Holtz for his newly relaunched For Immediate Release podcast. I also was joined by friends Shonali Burke, President and CEO of Shonali Burke Consulting, Inc. and Dave Fleet, Senior Vice President at Edelman Digital. Subscribe: read more...
Managing Global Crisis Communication Like A Pro
Editor's Note: The terrorist attacks on Paris came one month after we held this event in Houston. We send out our condolences to the Consulate General of France in Houston Sujiro Seam, his staff and the people of France. We have included a few of the tweets that the consulate and Sujiro have made to address the tragedy in this article. Houston has the third-largest consular corps in the nation after New York and Los Angeles with 94 consulates. Social media is an important global crisis communication vehicle for consulates with both their own citizens as well as the citizens of the countries in which they serve. They are a read more...
David and Goliath: How a Small Company Pivoted When Attacked By SELF Magazine
You know the feature. A stylish magazine takes a photo of someone and makes fun of their fashion choices? It’s totally mean girl, but it sells magazines and can be entertaining for even the most compassionate among us. But imagine it happening to a woman who is wearing a superhero costume with a tutu because she is in the middle of fighting brain cancer. This is what happened last month when SELF magazine editors started to notice the trend of women running with tutus in races. They reached out to Monika Allen, the runner on the right, and asked for a photo as they were writing about the trend. Not grasping that the magazine read more...
Reputation Management For C-Level Executives
It isn’t just organizations that need a strong online profile, but also the executives of those organizations. In January, PRNews asked me to write a column about how companies can manage their online reputation. But often when there is a crisis in a company or organization, it is an individual that takes the fall. And usually, that individual does not have a digital footprint that extends beyond their read more...
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