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Selfish Altruism: Ned Lundquist on Origins of the JOTW and an Appeal to Take the Annual Comms Survey

Sword and the Script

Ned: I started JOTW when I found myself rather suddenly out of work in January of 2001. It immediately generated responses from my newly formed network, and two of those responses led to job offers, with one of these leading to my getting hired for a corporate VP job. Why did you start the JOTW and where did the idea come from?

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Our Industry, Your Answers: Breaking Down the 2018 JOTW Communications Survey

Waxing UnLyrical

Corporate communications and PR can be a lonely business of sorts. Conducted in February 2018, the online survey solicited the thoughts and opinions of 5,500 JOTW newsletter subscribers, mainly consisting of senior in-house and corporate communications professionals across a variety of industries. Guest Post by Scott Kaminski.

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Notified by Intrado is a Promising PR Software Tool that Supports 5 Central Duties in Public Relations [PR Tech Briefing]

Sword and the Script

Listen is where you establish searches and monitor media, including social media; Connect is the media contacts database – with an interesting twist; Publish allows you to publish releases, blogs and send pitches; Amplify allows you to showcase user generated content – like social media posts; and. Measure is the dashboard and analytics.

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Is It Right to Sell Others Short?

Mindful Marketing

Before addressing the two concerns, I imagine some may be wondering what short selling has to do with marketing—the other half of this blog’s two-pronged focus. Dwayne Safer is a chartered financial analyst (CFA) whose career has included significant roles in investment banking, corporate finance, and strategy.

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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. Online Owned media becomes the easy to control option – although who really seeks out a digital magazine or corporate video? Cosmoblogawards.

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6 Pro Tips to Create Bigger Buzz for Your Business

Cision

Once Shea developed his production process, he went back to his online communities to get the word out: “The backpacking, fishing, outdoors community has a very active and robust online community of blogs, forums, and review sites. Over 900,000 Reserve and National Guard troops have been mobilized to active duty status since 9/11/2001.

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In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms

Sword and the Script

In other words, corporate communications is adding headcount and work that used to go to outside PR firms is being kept inside. You have to keep in mind, big corporations can have hundreds of law firms on what they call a “panel.” But that’s a talent supply issue for a different blog post. Then the economy changed.

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