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Reputation management: Royal Caribbean and Haiti

by amy mengel on January 21, 2010

External crises can force companies to make consternating choices.
Royal Caribbean has come under fire for continuing to dock its cruise ships on the Haitian peninsula of Labadee in light of the devastating earthquake. An article in The Gaurdian, later picked up by The Huffington Post and the LA Times travel blog, among other outlets, questions [...]

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It’s not a matter of if. It’s when. With user-generated content easier and more common than ever, it’s only a matter of time before someone in your organization does something that rubs someone (or a lot of people) the wrong way and soon millions of people are watching the travesty on YouTube.
Latest entry: United Breaks [...]

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I’ve saved the best for last, as Roger Conner’s session at the 2009 Ragan Corporate Communications Conference was far and away my favorite. Conner is vice president of communications for Marriott, a company he’s been with for more than 30 years. You can imagine that he’s accumulated a fair number of entertaining stories in that [...]

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