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6 Pro Tips to Create Bigger Buzz for Your Business

Cision

Berger writes that products and people that generate a lot of word-of-mouth exhibit six distinct characteristics: Social currency. Berger writes that a public product is one that is conspicuous and whose use can easily be mimicked by others. ” – Jennie Bev, writing in Psych Central. Something else was going on.

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

Waxing UnLyrical

The most popular trends recognized by the survey for the next 12 months included storytelling at 79%, content marketing (71%) and thought leadership (67%). Scott Kaminski is a client-side corporate storyteller who currently manages marketing communications and public relations for Häfele America Co., A former U.S.

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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. Cosmoblogawards.

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The 5Ps of Marketing Artificial Intelligence

PR 20/20

More specifically, can we use machines to write blog posts at scale?”. 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. Write data-driven content. Write email subject lines.

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The Best Journalism Movies

Landis PR

By Brianne Murphy Miller ) Almost Famous (2000) 2001 Academy Award Winner Based in the 1970s, “Almost Famous” follows William, a high-school-aged, aspiring rock journalist writing freelance articles for underground papers in San Diego. While the film is largely fictional, there are some autobiographical elements to the story.

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

Masters in Communications

We don't know what they say as they represent a transition between early pictorial writing and the cuneiform that succeeded them (2). If not religious in nature, then it could be a written form of word-of-mouth storytelling as many early pictorial depictions tended to be. There are potentially sinister reasons for doing this.

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