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The Role of Internal Communication in Start-ups: State of Research and Practical Approaches

Institute for Public Relations

This summary is provided by the IPR Organizational Communication Research Center. Dr. Cornelia Wolf and colleagues conducted research on the role and need for strategic internal communication in startup environments.

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How People Made 2010 What It Was

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali How People Made 2010 What It Was December 31st, 2010 Tweet Just a few more hours before we put our 2010 calendars away and start our New Year, eh? My, time flies. I turned 40. Bring it on!

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An “Interview” with ChatGPT: What is Public Relations? How Has PR Changed? Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Comms Pros?

Sword and the Script

We interviewed ChatGPT about public relations and while it does well with high-level questions, it becomes repetitive when those questions were more nuanced; the system says it is “unlikely” that it “or any other AI system will fully replace public relations (PR) professionals”. It’s not a bad take. How is public relations defined?

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The PR Losers Of 2019

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

The airliner’s issues would have been a serious business problem for Boeing in any case, but its communications with regulators, stakeholders and the public worsened the impact. The WeWork disaster is particularly instructive for communicators because its crisis was in some ways a matter of PR succeeding too well.

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Is Lawsuit Against Marketing Firm’s Role in Opioid Crisis a Precedent for Public Relations?

PRSay

In the complaint, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey alleges that from 2010 to 2019, Publicis Health partnered with the drug company on dozens of contracts, collecting more than $50 million “in exchange for marketing schemes to get doctors to prescribe Purdue’s opioids to more patients.”. A commitment to ethics. Custin said.

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Reflexivity Memo on PR practice from craft skills to education. A case of ‘plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose’.

PR Conversations

Publication of that collective interview was prompted by my piece called A radical view of PR , which generated 48 comments including, notably, a response from Jim Grunig – one of several in the resulting lively discussion. These developments also gave life to what was known at the time as ‘digital PR’ or ‘E-PR’.

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The Best Business Storytelling Posts from 2014 (Part II)

Ishmael's Corner

I highlighted some of my top 2014 posts on Monday, ranging from interviewing my Mom on the PR profession to using the Budweiser Puppy Love video to illustrate how teasing out tension in a story requires bad stuff. As communicators increasingly spearhead owned media properties, they need to come up the curve in visual storytelling.