VP Jay Rossiter’s message to stakeholders was missing something important… Late last month, Yahoo joined the ranks of organizations to have been hit by hackers in 2014. Never good at any time, the fact that the company has already been under fire about an extensive downtime for its Mail service in December, as well as …
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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 …
The social media giant may need crisis management if latest lawsuit brings on the privacy hounds Privacy is a hot-button issue in the online world these days, making the latest lawsuit to be filed against Facebook a potential doozy. According to the plaintiffs, Facebook has been violating the Electronic Communications Privacy Act by scanning the …
School Black History Event: Crisis Management Plan Taking a minute to think about potential negative perceptions is a must when making any decision. In a crisis that falls decisively under the “what the #$%& were they thinking?” category, a student committee at Northern California’s Carondelet High School for Girls decided that the best way to …
Refusing to acknowledge the power of social media is detrimental to your crisis management ability Every year since social media first appeared on the scene, a few pundits come out to say that we’re about to see the end of it. We’ve been riding on the social media bandwagon for a long time now, and …
Are organizers prepared to face potentially game-threatening conditions? When it comes to big events here in the States, you really can’t top the Super Bowl. There will be nearly 100,000 physically attending in addition to the 100+ million watching from home. Oh, and did we mention that this year it’s outdoors? In New Jersey. In …
Bad behavior followed by a total lack of crisis management does not bode well for the latest politician to be caught behaving badly New York Congressman Michael Grimm (R-Staten Island) is the latest politico to lose it on camera, and it’s not pretty. In an interview for New York’s NY1 News just after the recent …
Never rely on your first option working out perfectly So, you’ve put together a killer crisis management plan, heck you’ve even actually practiced it! Good to go, right? Not so fast. As a wise man once said, sh*t happens, and you’d better believe it can, and will, happen when you’re already fighting to keep your …
