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6 Ways to Improve Your Business Expertise and Strengthen Your Ethical Core

PRSay

Each September, PRSA recognizes Public Relations Ethics Month, supported by programs presented by the PRSA Board of Ethics and Professional Standards (BEPS). This year’s theme, Public Relations Ethics: Strengthening Our Core, guides a special focus on the six core values highlighted in the PRSA Code of Ethics.

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The Halo Effect: Why Attractiveness Matters in PR

Doctor Spin

The Halo Effect is intriguing—and ethically challenging in PR. Over-Reliance on Positive Associations While the Halo Effect can be a powerful tool, it also presents challenges and ethical considerations. Please support my blog by sharing it with other PR- and communication professionals. Source: Nursing Times 3 Smith, R.

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Growing my blog has been all about…

Communications Conversations

The theme of this year’s #mnblogcon was “growth” But, for my keynote, I attempted to take things a little different direction and talk about what growing my blog has been all about–because really, it hasn’t been about the numbers, followers or like and comment totals. Another example: My PR Rock Star series.

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Is Pay-to-Post Blogging The New Advertorial?

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Is Pay-to-Post Blogging The New Advertorial? A few weeks ago, they asked a question about paying for blog posts. In 2010, blogs and bloggers are truly influencers. Let me unpack this a bit.

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Instagram pods indicative of 10-year social media trend

Communications Conversations

Like my friend Sarah Ziehr said on Facebook, if there was an “eye roll” emoji, I would have used it when I saw this post on Hubspot’s blog last week. First, in the 2009-2012 period (roughly), you may recall mom and lifestyle bloggers forming these ‘blogger networks.’ Not at all.

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Straight Talk for Laywers and Legal Marketers on Content Marketing

Sword and the Script

Other owned media platforms include microsites, resource pages, and blogs for example. Typically, these are built on platforms like WordPress that make updating – a daily or weekly blog post – very easy. In 2009, your firm’s Facebook page might have gotten a lot of likes. Websites are often static.

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5 Proven Ways PR can Develop Client Media References in B2B Organizations

Sword and the Script

Marketing also has purse strings that can be creatively – and ethically – spent to appease a specific rep with the right reference. 1) Soft interviews on your company blog. Ask your customers for interviews on your corporate blog – soft interviews. Then, the references and contacts start to come a lot easier.

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