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4 Corporate Communications Lessons From Hurricane Harvey

PRSay

As a corporate communicator who, like others, nervously and helplessly watched the water rise, I learned about the parallels that can be drawn between the historic flood and how companies respond to their own crises. When my family undertook major renovations on our house in 2014, we began by interviewing several contractors.

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For whom the bell tolls

Stephen Waddington

Lord Chadlington will interview his fellow peer Lord Bell on 7 November in London. Lord Bell wasn’t responsible for delivering the work that resulted in the PRCA expulsion, but he set up the original contract, and was responsible for a corporate culture in which this type work was acceptable. Lord Bell left the agency in August 2016.

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Public Relations. It’s Still About The People

Waxing UnLyrical

The first was an interview in eMarketer Daily newsletter with the eminently wise Brian Solis , in which he emphasized the human side of online communication. The second was a blog post by one of my Curry College PR superstars, Erika Kuzmicz , who finished her degree requirements in December 2011. Image: LSE Library via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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15 Up-and-Coming PR and Social Media Marketers to Watch

Communications Conversations

I think about people like LeeAnn Rasachak and Sarah Reckard whom I met more than 10 years ago now (they were one of my first PR Rock Star interviews!). Courtney landed her permanent role off a 6-month social media internship in the Corporate Communications department at UnitedHealth Group. And, they have been for a while now.

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Lessons From a Very Public Break-Up

Waxing UnLyrical

We launched into Twitter on 25 August 2010 and into Facebook on the 7 February 2011. 28% growth in mortgage sales calls to our contact centre in February and March 2011, compared to the same period last year. Thanks to Hillan for taking the time to take part in this interview. Do you have any favorite campaigns from 2011?

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Monday Roundup: Lessons from Avinash Kaushik

Waxing UnLyrical

Why: “You must incentivize optimal behavior, so you don’t focus on meaningless metrics such as likes,” says Avinash in this interview for Quartz. Interview with Avinash Kaushik, digital marketing evangelist for Google. Q&A with Google’s Avinash Kaushik: Marketing without shouting. ” 4.

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The Gift of Desperation

Ishmael's Corner

operation back in the 2011/2012 timeframe. With this in mind, we retooled our corporate identity baking the classic story arc into our logo: And we bulldozed www.Hoffman.com , creating a new public face to the outside world that showcases the our approach to storytelling — conversational language, anecdotes, visual storytelling, etc. —