With apps like Secret, Whisper, Yik Yak and Rumr gaining in popularity, organizations are left even more vulnerable. Perhaps it’s due to the fact that we help organizations work their way through targeted attacks on a regular basis, but I have a hard time understanding why these sorts of apps are continuing to be developed […]

Twitter has recently revealed two new features coming to the platform. On March 26th they published the following message to their blog: “We’re rolling out two new mobile features that make photos on Twitter more social. One is photo tagging, which lets you tag the people in your photo; the other is the ability to […]

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. […]

I recently had the opportunity to join an NYU graduate class in a Twitter chat on crisis communications. I was so impressed by their answers to Professor Deirdre Breakenridge‘s questions that I wanted to share them with you here today. There is a ton of valuable advice in the following tweets – and it’s certainly […]