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The Internet may have opened worlds for organizations and consumers, but it has also developed a public relations nightmare for companies. Forums, opinion Web sites, blogs, and something that is publishable can smear a company's name in moments.

Don't forget, "Yours Is a Extremely Bad Hotel" presentation that described one particular customer's undesirable knowledge with a hotel chain? Hotels are run by humans. Humans make mistakes. It is how you manage the mistakes that can make the difference in consumer service. Given that the hotel's staff did not attempt to aid the buyer overcome a undesirable circumstance, the client lashed back and bloggers blogged it.

If the hotel is on best of its game, it would unleash its crisis management (also identified as reputation management) team to salvage its reputation whilst it can. It's feasible for a organization to overcome negative PR and come out ahead as in the case of PG&E (California's Pacific Gas and Electric organization).

Yet another technique is to use World wide web monitoring to monitor on the web articles concerning a company's activities to prepare for negative publicity. Some go additional and monitor chat rooms, newsgroups, and online discussion forums.

It really is like the story of the town gossip who spread false stories about its men and women. One particular day, he felt terrible and went to the chaplain [Rabbi, pastor, priest, or other &mdash take your pick] to ask for forgiveness. The chaplain stated,"I will forgive you, but you should do something 1st."

"Take a feather pillow, reduce it open, and scatter the feathers to the winds." The man believed this was a strange request, but it was a straightforward enough job, and he did it gladly. When he returned to tell the chaplain that he had completed it, the chaplain said, "Now, go and gather the feathers. Since you can no far more make amends for the harm your words have completed than you can recollect the feathers."

The exact same can take place to a firm with out a crisis management strategy in spot. It's possible to survive the crisis and thrive as PG&E did. Do not count on Worldcom to pull out of its Enron-like mess. Fraud is not excusable. And Martha Stewart? She has hired a public relations strategist firm in an effort to do damage handle. It'll be worth watching to see what happens in her situation and how the PR firm attempts to save her reputation. Did you know there is a recall on a single of her goods? Adds fuel to the fire, doesn't it? consumers