Excellence in Business Communication, 13th Edition
Chapter 8. Crafting Messages for Digital Channels
"Social media PR crises hit companies like tornados—out of nowhere and with deadly force," observes Peter Friedman (photo, left).
Dianne Gottsman (photo, left) advises, "As you set out 2014 with fresh goals and resolutions, don't overlook your social media profiles and activity.
"Apology speeches are best when they actually include an apology," says Leslie Ungar, president of Electric Impulse Communications.
"Let’s take a look at the top social media brands as if it was a game of SNAKES and LADDERS.
"Why do you use social media?
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"Here’s the headline of a sales pitch email that landed (with a thud) recently in my inbox: .
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"You’ve succeeded in getting a social media strategy in place, you’re sharing amazing, relevant content – and then WHAM! Someone posts a negative comment, and you feel like all of the wind has been let out of your sails.
"People are taking to your digital properties with pitchforks and lit torches.
"If you or your CEO has been called upon by a TV news reporter to comment on a mass layoff, product recall or other urgent news situation, you know the feeling that this old Wide World of Sports adage can evoke: 'The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat,'" writes Gwen Chynoweth (photo, left).
"As technology adoption among small businesses increases, social media is an area that more business owners are becoming interested in.
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Scott Schwertly (photo, left) explains "how you can play the social card during your next presentation: .
"One example of how extensively mobile devices have changed long-held conventions of communications is that presenters who once were disturbed by audience members texting on their phones now are worried if they don’t," says Steve Friedman of Present Perfect.
"Kim Brown is an assistant director for Syracuse University's Career Services department.
Digital shaming has become the newest form of public stocks, ensuring the wrongdoings of individuals are widely known and impossible to erase.
Anyone who has worked with other people in other cultures is aware that emails across borders sometimes have unexpected results or even no result.
After getting fired in October from the high-tech startup where he had worked for more than four years Joshua Filgate, a 27-year-old engineer in Southborough, Mass.
Let's assume you're not stupid or a jerk or weird--that you're not misspelling every other word or ending every thought with "OK?
The infographic shows you how to maximize your use of Linkedin presence.
Social networking is the #1 activity online.
It seems that sharing online is still so very novel and so early in humans social digital development stage that we are like young children before we had all our brain cells lined up in the correct sequence that provided logical thought capabilities.
Professor Timothy Coombs talks about the relations between social media and crisis communication.