Great no-cost resource for crisis education One of the great things about the internet is the vast amount of knowledge available on any subject. Near and dear to our hearts, of course, is anything related to crisis management. Resources with quality content are always a welcome find, and we realized many people aren’t aware that …
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Frequently Asked Questions About Peer Coaching Groups
Peer Coaching Groups: Your FAQs Answered We assume that you have already read the information on the page Start a Virtual Support Group to Help With Stresses of COVID-19. The information on that page would answer all of the typical questions about planning and operating a support group. However, the following questions still tend to …
By Rolfe Larson, Joining Vision and Action What constitutes “true” social enterprises? Thousands of nonprofits that use the marketplace to accomplish their social goals call themselves social enterprises (SEs). Thousands of for-profit companies with social goals also use that term. Yet these two groups barely talk with each other. Why is that? Benefit corporations and …
Create a solid foundation for communication in crisis Crisis communications plans cannot be cookie-cutter, but there are certain principles that apply to just about every situation. Get the core bits down pat, and you’ll leave yourself significantly more room to think about incident-specific actions or outside-the-box solutions to the issue at hand. In a simple …
[Editor’s note: This guest post, originally published on the Triad Strategies blog, looks at the impact of VW’s $14 billion U.S. owner compensation agreement, and what it may mean to the company if similar amends are to be expected overseas where nearly 20x the number of vehicles have been affected. Although VW’s annual revenue is …
Learning from those who are doin’ it right Figuring out how to do reputation management can be tricky. Fortunately, you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. There are plenty of positive examples of organizations doing good work both online and off, and all it takes is a bit of Googling to dig up best practices …
Quick tips to help with ORM efforts Truly excelling at online reputation management requires a customized approach and effort over time. While you work towards that, you can get positioned for success by learning all you can. Studying best practices and how-to’s (provided you vet where they’re coming from…) will allow you to lay a …
An international group of scientists says it should More than 150 experienced scientists have signed a letter to the World Health Organization begging it to intervene and move or delay the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. The reason? Zika. The letter cites a concern for global health as its primary reason: The Brazilian strain of Zika …
