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The Importance Of Managing Your Brand Reputation From The First Day

YoungUpstarts

In today’s digital world, negative feedback can quickly go viral, leading to potential disaster for even the biggest brands. Before long the brand had gone viral, for all the wrong reasons. Ensure your team is trained to deal with any PR disasters, and your business won’t make headlines for the wrong reasons.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

I began asking around who the smartest people in the online media industry were and two names came up again and again — Jonah Peretti (social & viral content) and Ze Frank (social video). I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru. This is an idea that interests me a great deal.

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The Top 15 Business Trends to Avoid for 2018

Mike Michalowicz

Thanks to Richard Laermer , RLM Pr. Avoid Trying To Go Viral. As social media platforms continue to mature, we will be seeing more examples of viral videos, viral campaigns, viral __. You can’t architect a viral success. Thanks to Dahlia Roth , Free Government Auctions At GovernmentBargains.com.

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Cause Marketing on Ice

crowdSPRING Blog

Right now, today, appearing in virtually every corner of the the internet you can be find my neighbor’s video along with thousands of others and witness one of the most successful, most impressive viral media campaigns of all time. Related posts: 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!).

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How Does LinkedIn Manage News: Five Questions With Their Managing Editor Katie Carroll

Hunter Walker

Earlier this year, for example, we put together a collection of posts from furloughed workers during the government shutdown. HW: Do people pitch you company PR that’s dressed up as news? HW: What are some examples of stories that “went viral” on LinkedIn above and beyond the mainstream coverage? Where does it appear?

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

In the time since our conversation, data and science have shown again and again that wearing masks is an incredibly effective, low-cost and simple way to prevent viral spread. And they got really into the idea of wearing masks and within three days, the whole country had masks, within three days with no government support.

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“AirB&E” and Disaster Response for Consumer Startups

Gust

This principle is no less true of businesses than government agencies; particularly in the decade following 9/11> Large corporations have made it a priority to invest considerable resources in disaster recovery plans, crisis manuals, business interruption insurance and so forth. Perhaps most importantly, listen.

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