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Archive by Author • Patrice Cloutier

The 7 Deadly Sins of Crisis (Mis)Management

27 May

By Patrice Cloutier We are frequently reminded that the art of crisis communications and crisis management is a tough one to master. From Target, to General Motors and Donald Sterling, we have many examples of how NOT to do it. Some people do it right in a crisis. When they do, it pays dividends and [...]

How to Deal With the Right Audiences in a Crisis

22 Apr

By Patrice Cloutier, Strategic communications professional and member of the Agnes + Day Crisis Intelligence Team. A key part of any crisis communications plan is identifying key segments of your audience and prioritizing your response efforts. This is made an even harder task nowadays because of social networks and the need for a speedy implementation [...]

When Everyone is a Reporter, Everyone in your Organization is a Spokesperson

12 Mar

By Patrice Cloutier, Strategic communications professional and member of the Agnes + Day Crisis Intelligence Team. One of the characteristics of social convergence is the omnipresence of mobile devices equipped with video cameras. It’s how news is made today. As we know, this puts tremendous pressure on organizations to respond quickly when things go south. [...]

Flipping The Switch: Going to Crisis Communications Mode

10 Feb

Editor’s Note: This post was written by Patrice Cloutier. Patrice is Team Lead for strategic communications in the Communications Branch of the Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services, and a valued member of Agnes + Day’s Crisis Intelligence Team. There are many definitions of what constitutes a crisis. Far too many to list here. [...]

Crisis Management Reflections of 2013, from Patrice Cloutier

04 Dec

Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post from the very talented Patrice Cloutier. Patrice is currently Team Lead for strategic communications in the Communications Branch of the Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services. If there’s one thing about crisis communications that was validated in 2013, it’s the absolute necessity to operationalize social listening as [...]

Why Your Crisis Communications Plan Needs to be SOCIAL

18 Apr

Editor’s Note: The following was written by Patrice Cloutier, a specialist in emergency information and crisis communications, emergency management and business continuity. This post originally appeared on Patrice’s blog – which is totally worth checking out by the way! S for strategic O for operational C for collaborative I for informative A for adaptable L for [...]

Changing Technologies and Behaviours: The Social Media Imperative

04 Mar

Editor’s Note: I’m very pleased to be providing you with a guest post by Patrice Cloutier. Patrice specializes in emergency information and crisis communications, emergency management and business continuity. Crisis communications practitioners don’t have a choice: they must integrate social networks into their planning or risk having their response to any incident become totally irrelevant. – [...]