If someone writes something negative on your corporate Facebook page, should you delete it? Sharing tips from followers

This week, crisis communications expert Gerard Braud polled social media to ask, “If someone writes something negative on your corporate Facebook page, should you delete it?” Today we are sharing corporate communications and public relations professional’s tips on this topic in our follow-up video.

From a PR standpoint, what would you do to protect the brand, reputation, and revenue of your company? Should you delete negative comments or respond to them? Do you risk pushing the negative comments to the top of your follower’s news feeds? Do you risk inviting more social media trolls to the conversation?

Do you agree with the comments that were shared this week? What would you do differently? Continue the discussion by commenting here and on our social media pages.

This question is one of a series of debates in the media relations, crisis communications, public relations, and social media industries where you and your colleagues can share observations with each other. Yes, YOU are invited to share your bite size bits of best practices. Here is how:

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Step 4: Watch the follow-up Friday Video where you will see a short YouTube video outlining some of the most interesting observations. Yes…your comments may actually show up on our BraudCast video, bringing you world-wide fame, fortune, a big raise, glory, street parades, and more.

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