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Press Release Horror Stories: 5 Lessons Learned from Epic PR Fails

Newsfile

Boeing’s 737 Max Crisis (2019-2020) : Boeing faced a major public relations crisis after two crashes involving its 737 Max aircrafts in 2018 and 2019. Facebook’s Data Privacy Concerns (2015-2021) : Facebook’s first impactful data privacy concerns started in 2015 during the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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A new era for brand trust – how PR must adapt

PR in High Definition

Privacy will be a big theme in 2018. The regulation will come into play in May 2018 – and if privacy and data protection wasn’t already all people could talk about last year, then just you wait for the explosion this year! All employees and all customers are advocates of some kind, whether good or bad.

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Why Boeing’s Reputation Radar Failed

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

With the release of audio from a tense November 2018 meeting between the American Airlines pilots’ union and Boeing executives – after the Lion Air crash but before the Ethiopian Airlines accident – the scope of the company’s miscalculation is apparent.

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2018 CHE Senior Summit Spotlight: Communicating the Value of Higher Education

PRSay

The fact that virtually every university student and employee has their own cellphone and can create content themselves makes a college communicator’s role even more challenging. Communicators often cannot say much about sexual assault because of privacy constraints, which opens the issue to public criticism and confusion.

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PR Tactics To Differentiate Your Brand

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SalesForce, well known as a differentiated SaaS brand, launched its employee giving program “ philanthropy cloud” in early 2018 – not only a dynamic idea, but also in line with its brand voice and stated purpose as a “self-sustaining social enterprise.”. This type of creative, highly effective activity makes a splash.

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15 Social Media Trends to Follow in 2019

Critical Mention

With the data privacy scandal that rocked Facebook in 2018, transparency became a critical social media trend this year. Employee advocacy. We all know the potential of influencer marketing, but another effective tactic is to turn your employees into brand advocates. Transparency.

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CBI sets out urgent requirement for internal and external communication on AI

Stephen Waddington

Ethics, employee engagement and wider stakeholder management are the three pillars of the CBI’s report AI: Ethics into practice. In 2018 AI companies raised almost twice the investment of counterparts in France and Germany. AI represents a significant growth opportunity for the UK. It is set to transform how we live and work.