My tips to businesses for crisis management through social media

This is the script of an interview I gave for a Romania business journal "Business Review Romania" in June 2012. The interview is published in instalments. This is part 3 of 6
Can you give us 5 tips as to how company can manage a crisis through social media?
In fact, despite what most people think, and despite the usual romantic stories told about Internet crises and rumours, managing crises is a long-term rather than short-term exercise. Crises in social media in fact, reflect what is bad with your company, not what is wrong with your community management or the way you handle it. Here are my 5 tips about managing crises:












