For Immediate Release

A faulty software update caused the biggest IT outage in history, affecting everything from commercial airline flights to hospitals. The crisis communication demands on CrowdStrike were enormous. How well did the company acquit itself? Neville and Shel look at the company’s response and share what some crisis experts have said. Also in this episode, there’s increased reporting on the strike between journalists and media relations professionals. People are still searching on Google, but they are not clicking on any of the results, creating headaches for websites that need visitors to survive. Ogilvy has introduced a service to deal with rogue influencers. A newsletter has made its way into the fediverse as social networks like Threads continue to expand their fediverse presence. NATO is taking its case to the public in a novel format: a graphic novel. In his tech report, Dan York shares his thoughts on the U.S. Supreme Court decision dealing with content moderation and why it’s important for communicators, the release of WordPress 6.6, and the CrowdStrike outage. Links here: FIR #420: How Well Did CrowdStrike Handle Its Crisis Communications? - FIR Podcast Network

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FIR #375: ChatGPT Speaks for Itself about its P...
The generative AI chatbot doesn't think it'll replace human communicators.
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FIR #374: Getting Your News from AI
OpenAI has signed a deal with a major publisher to include news in its training set
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FIR #373: Has the Fediverse Reached Its Tipping...
Media companies are increasingly adopting fediverse protocols
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FIR #372: More Disinformation Targets Companies
Research finds organizations are targets of increasingly sophisticated attacks
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FIR #371: Employee AI Competencies
Job postings increasingly list AI skills. Are employees ready to compete for those jobs?
17 min
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FIR #370: War, Managers, and Empathy
How companies should address the Israel-Hamas conflict with employees
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FIR #368: AI and PR Codes of Ethics
PRSA has released an ethical guide for the use of generative AI
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FIR #366: DIY GPT
OpenAI has unleashed the ability for anyone to create a custom AI chatbot
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FIR #365: RyanAir's Social Media Chief Doesn't ...
When a social media-savvy ex-employee trashes your company
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FIR #364: Managers' Most Important Communicatio...
It's not passing information to employees, or even delivering feedback to leaders.
15 min
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FIR #363: Is the Israel-Hamas War a Communicati...
Brands are attacked for taking either side, both sides, or remaining silent
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FIR #362: Why Did Pebble Sink?
The microblogging platform is shutting down on November 1.
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FIR #361: Is There a Seat at the Table in Corpo...
A new study from Edelman reveals how Fortune 500 CCOs spend their time -- and budgets
14 min
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FIR #360: Your AI Chatbot Confidant
If a school headmaster can do it, why not a CEO?
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FIR #359: Your New AI BFF
Here come synthetic social networks
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FIR #358: EY Goes AI
The Big Four Accounting Firm Has Launched Internal and External AI Portals
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FIR #357: A Status Report on AI and PR
The PR Academy assesses the PR industry's early moves to add AGI to its resource mix
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FIR #356: The Long Arc of Network Disruption
When compared to print's lifespan, the internet is in its toddler phase
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FIR #353: Blogging in the AI Era
Blogs are as relevant as ever. AI can help. Or hurt. Or both.
24 min
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FIR #352: AI and Elections -- Should We Panic?
Disinformation will be AI's primary election output but there's already plenty of that
16 min
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FIR #351: No Such Thing as Peak Podcast
Are there too many books? Records?
20 min
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FIR #350: Success Breeds Imitation
A batch of toy-based movies is coming, thanks to Barbie
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FIR #349: Marketing's Pity Party
Journalism and Advertising are Taking Different Approaches to Artificial Intelligence, and More
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FIR #348: The Consequences of AI Panic
A useful website is gone thanks to unjustified panic among authors spooked by AI
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FIR #347: Digital Media, Star Power, and Wrexham
Two stars bought an obscure football club. Can just anyone emulate their success?
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