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Terminal disaster

Apr 08 2008 by Brian Amble
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With British Airways reeling from one of the biggest corporate PR disasters in history, it's worth mentioning just how much impact social media had on the Terminal 5 catastrophe.

So if you still think that your organisation can ignore You Tube and the like, perhaps it's time to think again...

Here's an example from the 28 or so Terminal 5 videos posted on YouTube

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