Crisis Communications in the Era of Social Media

CW Fong
10 min readJun 27, 2021

[Note: This is my original research into the role of social media in crisis communications. First published in 2010, many of the points are as valid today, as they were back then. Hope you find the article useful.]

Introduction

Research by Brand Finance [1] has shown that a company’s brand can account for as much as 84% [2] of its total enterprise value and, based on the size of the enterprise, this can be quite substantial. In its 2007 Report on the World’s Most Valuable Brands, Brand Finance valued Coca-Cola’s branding…

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CW Fong

I blog therefore I am. Passionate about #Singapore, #Leadership, #PublicRelations, #SocialMedia, #Marketing, and #PersonalDevelopment. Above all, I do no evil