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Five Critical Points of Blogging & Image Law Every PR Pro Must Know

Rock the Status Quo

Agencies, PR and marketing professionals, bloggers and anyone doing social media (who doesn’t?) You paid the photographer AND agency, after all, so it belongs to you!) She can be an agency or marketing departments best friend. Right where it counts! Nope, not on your kisser but, even worse, in your wallet.

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The Field of Emergency Management: Why It Is Not A Profession

Melissa Agnes

I am the Planning Section Chief for our agency so I write all the incident action plans for planned and unplanned events which I really enjoy. I have done a ton of media work as I am the Public Information Officer as well for our agency. 1 (Printed in Wikipedia, “Lorne M. Retrieved September 2, 2014. References.

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The Top PR Trends For 2017

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

According to The Holmes Report, only 27% of agency leaders responding to the survey think the term “public relations” will clearly and adequately describe the work they do by the year 2020. Google quietly filed a patent in 2014 that many in the search business feel presages an actual formula for tracking implied links.

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8 Ways to Make Your Press Release More Effective

Cision

According to a survey of the releases distributed by (a certain PR firm) on one day: 78% of public relations people spend extra money to dress up their releases with printed letterheads and color…the 78% broke down into 34% on a simple black letterhead, 16% on a one-color letterhead, and 28% on a letterhead with two or more colors.

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FDA Guidance on Drug Advertising: Compliance Questions for Pharmaceutical Communications Professionals

ISEBOX

She was managing print and TV ad campaigns long before she started using online and social media channels to promote her current employer, ABC Drug Corp. How could a little “like” trigger such a harsh response from the agency? This outcome is confusing – even for a seasoned pharmaceutical PR Exec like Oktavia.

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Behind the Headlines With Lauren Kaufman

Cision

After a short stint at a large NYC agency on its agricultural product PR team, I actually found my true calling by chance when I answered an ad in The New York Times for a job at Spring O’Brien, an agency that specializes in travel and tourism PR. What do you have planned for them?

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PR and SEO. No Longer a Match Made in Hell.

Ishmael's Corner

Paid search has essentially given Google a license to print money to the tune of about $45 billion in 2014. There’s a reason advertising agencies aren’t in the PR business and PR agencies stay away from traditional advertising. Now compare securing media coverage to creating an advertisement.

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