At the Blog Business Summit this week my blogging Yoda’s Robert Scoble, Buzz Bruggeman and Anil Dash tackled the thorny topic of crisis communications. They emphasized how blogging can help when things get bad by projecting a human face or voice for an organization and by providing a forum for soliciting specific feedback from customers. In the immortal words of the Hulkster, “Amen brother.”
Read full article on Steve Rubel’s Micro Persuasion blog.
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