Whenever a celebrity or famous person gets in trouble, it’s news, right?
So imagine my shock today to see that an Pro Bowl NFL running back had been let go (essentially fired) because of what he posted on Twitter. {See Politis PR Tip #45: Think Before You Tweet.}
Clearly Larry Johnson wasn’t sacked by the Kansas City [...]

According to the latest numbers on Wikipedia, there are more than 4.1 billion cell phones in the world today.
According to the latest figures available from the CTIA, cell phone users in the United States sent more than 740 BILLION text messages in the first half of 2009, meaning that we’re on track to approach 1.5 [...]

Mashable (one of the top tech news aggregators and news sites on the Web), reported in August that 8% (eight percent) of companies with 1,000 or more employees had fired someone for misusing social networking sites.
How stupid can some people be? Well . . . check out this crazy post on TheNextWeb.com where the author [...]

Do you know the term “dooced?”
It means to get fired for what you’ve written on a blog (or Website).
The term comes from the now famous blog, Dooce.com, written by Heather Armstrong, who was fired for things she wrote about her then place of employment (back in 2002).
The good news for Armstrong was that she was [...]

NFL Pro Bowl running back Larry Johnson was today released by the Kansas City Chiefs, just 75 yard short of breaking the team career rushing record of Priest Holmes.
The proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back (and the patience of team ownership and management)?
According to the Associated Press, it was Johnson’s Twitter post (”tweet”) on [...]

In spite of thinking to the contrary, bad things happen.
That’s why you must have a Crisis Communications Plan prepared and ready for use at your company.
If you work in public relations, corporate communications, marketing or in executive management and your firm does NOT have a Crisis Communications Plan in place, ready to be implemented at [...]

Every company, from time to time, will face a crisis (some will face many). The magnitude, scope and effects of the crisis depend on a number of factors. Although crisis management should be a proactive activity involving environmental scanning and monitoring, from time to time there arise crises that require additional planning, resourcesA successful crisis communications response will take into account all available and pertinent information in order to formulate a successful plan that will best benefit the parties involvoed. Knowing what questions to ask is an important part of the crisis communications services offered by Politis Communications.