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6 Pro Tips to Create Bigger Buzz for Your Business

Cision

In a previous Cision post, I wrote about Aristotle’s formula for storytelling, a formula still evident in a lot of modern storytelling: The pledge – An audience should feel pity for a character due to their undeserved misfortune. It’s a common understanding that storytelling is an effective way to share ideas.

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Paying for the destruction of public relations

PR Conversations

In 2001, a British installation artist, Michael Landy, won a commission for his work, Break Down, that involved the destruction of all his possessions as a reaction to the consumerist society. Fifteen years later, as Davis has noted, promotional practice has become ubiquitous. Money can’t buy respect.

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Corporate Communications is Taking More PR Work In-House, finds Survey; Media Relations Gets Even Harder

Sword and the Script

Ned launched “ Job of the Week ” (JOTW) email newsletter in 2001 as a free resource for PR and communications professionals looking for work. My hypothesis is that PR agencies – and its siblings in marketing and advertising – are entering the early stages of a similar trend. content marketing (64%).

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New Survey Identifies the Hottest Trends in Corp Comm and PR; Announcing the 2018 JOTW Communications Survey

Sword and the Script

Respondents said storytelling, content marketing and thought leadership will be more important over the next 12 months. Ned is a retired senior naval officer who launched the “ Job of the Week ” (JOTW) email newsletter in 2001 as a free resource for PR pros looking for work. The 2018 JOTW Communications Survey from Frank Strong.

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The 5Ps of Marketing Artificial Intelligence

PR 20/20

They may not be intelligent and self-aware like Hal 9000 (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer), the machine from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), but algorithms can evolve. Production: Creating, curating and optimizing content, including blog posts, emails, landing pages, video and advertisements. Curate content.

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The Essential Guide to Mass Communication: History, Methods, Ethics, and the Future

Masters in Communications

Typically, it is synonymous with broadcast and print media: radio, TV, and film (small and large screen), print media, and advertising. Outdoor and transmit media typically tend to be advertising material (but not always). False Advertising Advertising exists to sell products and services.

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