Critical Mention

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

From tweets to blogs, many PR organizations publish great PR content. Powell Tate partners with organizations across sectors — global corporations, advocacy groups, nonprofits and foundations, coalitions, national trade associations and government agencies. Their blog covers topics from PR tips, company culture, social media and more.

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PRSay

JULY 14, 2020

We’re only halfway through 2020, but the year has already ushered in a once-in-a-century pandemic and a world-altering movement to dismantle systemic racism. So what do the rapid changes of 2020 mean for your organization? Should corporate leaders share their own beliefs? Should businesses address these movements?

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

These are just a few of the questions on the 2020 JOTW Communications Survey questionnaire. I’ve also written a ton for the blog on the topic and you can find all of those posts neatly organized under the tag JOTW. — Frank Strong (@Frank_Strong) February 21, 2020. Blog posts stemming from the JOTW Communications Survey.

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Survey Public Affairs Corporate Trends 86

Practical Law Construction

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Prior to the 2020 updates, Option X7 provided that delay damages would be recoverable until the earlier of “Completion” or the date on which the client takes over the works. The 2020 update clarifies Option X7 to provide that delay damages end on the date on which the project manager issues a termination certificate.

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Construction Banking Course Government 87

PRSay

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Please join the #PRDiversity discussion via @PRSADiversity and follow along with our D&I-related blog posts, webinars and Twitter Chats throughout the month. In October, PRSA celebrates Diversity & Inclusion Month, featuring programs presented by the PRSA D&I Committee. This year’s theme is “Transforming the Landscape.”

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Communications Nonprofit Employee Local 201

Doctor Spin

JANUARY 19, 2024

Here we go: Communicative Discipline Spin Academy | Online PR Courses Communicative Discipline For corporate communications in general, and communicative leadership in particular, I recommend a direct approach to intrapersonal communication: Rationalise and simplify—never let trivial tasks or topics become complicated or emotional.

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Communications eBook Leadership Corporate 52

Ishmael's Corner

JANUARY 11, 2015

Today marks the five-year anniversary of Google turning to its corporate blog to communicate changes in China. As I shared in a post last week, Google’s decision gave street cred to corporate blogging. Looking out another five years to 2020, perhaps we’ll be analyzing Huawei’s decision to buy Reuters.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

He published a paper called PR 2020 on behalf of the CIPR in 2011 that examined the future of PR. The PR 2020 project was based on interviews with PR practitioners throughout the UK and the outlook for the forthcoming decade. They are all issues that will occupy us all in 2020. Here are the headlines. Issues in practice 1.

Government 103

Government Education Print Ethics 103

Prakkypedia

JANUARY 8, 2023

Key take-outs focused on the continuing impact of changes to the workforce, post the COVID-19 pandemic and shutdowns of 2020. Yes, I know COVID-19 remains with us, however governments and employers are responding in different ways from 2020). PR Daily has a terrific list of predictions (and a lot of humour in the article).

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Onclusive

AUGUST 9, 2021

Owned media consists of publishing content on brand-owned channels such as a customer-facing blog, email campaign, or social media outreach. PR pros will need to either write content themselves or help to drive strategy with a team of writers, editors and guest blog contributors. Corporate Communications. Crisis Communications.

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Training Media Training Reputation Crisis Communications 370

Onclusive

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Owned Media & Content Strategy Owned media consists of publishing content on brand-owned channels such as a customer-facing blog, email campaign, or social media outreach. PR pros will need to either write content themselves or help to drive strategy with a team of writers, editors and guest blog contributors.

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Training Media Training Reputation Crisis Communications 195

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Fortunately, there are several new studies that have been published about content marketing, blogging and webinars that provide solid benchmarks. If you are looking for ideas, I have many years’ worth of useful ideas organized under the content marketing tag on this blog. 2) Blogging benchmarks. 2-4 posts per month.

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Content Marketing Study Blogging Marketing 137

Communications Conversations

MARCH 4, 2020

Last week, Greg Swan shared an interesting tweet as part of his presentation on the state of social media in 2020. Blog post: 2 yrs. — Anu (@anutopiaa) January 28, 2020. Blog post: 2 yrs. — Anu (@anutopiaa) January 28, 2020. Create content for Pinterest or a corporate blog, and it tends to stick around for a while.

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Social Media Pinterest Strategy Media 68

Practical Law Construction

AUGUST 12, 2020

The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (CIGA 2020) came into force on 26 June 2020 after a fast-tracked consultation process. This blog post focuses on the CIGA 2020’s permanent provisions intended to protect the supplies of goods and services. The CIGA 2020 – what does it do?

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Construction Exercises Measurement Financial 52

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Should you put dates on your blog posts and content? Here are the survey results: Should you or shouldn’t you put a date blog posts when you publish them? blogs #bloggers #publicrelations #contentmarketing #content. Frank Strong (@Frank_Strong) February 15, 2020. If there’s no date, it’s not a blog post.”

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Blogging Survey Google Engineering 119

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 31, 2019

There were 62 posts published on this blog in 2019. In going through the reader analytics for the full year, these are the top 10 most-read posts on this blog about public relations (PR) and marketing. If you haven’t already, consider subscribing to these blog posts by email or RSS. 6) How Long Should a Blog Post be in 2019?

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Blogging Publicity Marketing Survey 80

Barokas

JANUARY 15, 2020

This happens in corporate messaging all the time. As you look toward all that 2020 holds for your company, consider a refresh on your messaging. The post Strategic Communications Goal for 2020: Get Your Message Right appeared first on Barokas Communications. All too often, we miscommunicate and cross wires.

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Communications Groups Analysis Engineering 78

Bianchi Biz Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The information in this post originally appeared on Public Relations Global Network’s blog. Faces and Markets of PRGN is a new series of blog posts in 2024 that puts Public Relations Global Network (PRGN) member agencies and their markets in the spotlight. However, there has been a decline in this number by about 70% in 2020.

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Marketing Newspapers Print Local 106

Onclusive

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In 2020, we have all experienced a year like no other. Here are Onclusive’s predictions for what to expect in 2021: Corporate reputation as a key success metric During this era of disruption and uncertainty, corporate values and brand activism have become more important than ever.

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Industry Content Marketing Corporate Analytics 221

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 22, 2019

To that end, I’ve poured over two surveys and re-visited a third to see what the wisdom the marketing crowds had to say about 2020 marketing budgets. but most CMOs (61%) expect “their budgets to rebound in 2020” according to The CMO Spend Survey by Gartner. The CMO Spend Survey by Gartner. Budgets fell modestly this year from 11.2%

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Marketing Survey Study B2B 65

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 9, 2024

This is because many of the queries aren’t from bona fide journalists, but from corporate bloggers. A blogger from some tech company’s blog will always be included. Further, some vendors, like HubSpot, actually run their blogs like a news site. In 2020, the company quietly went IPO raising $400 million.

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Brand Branding Reddit Pitching 149

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 1, 2022

Another 20% see budgets decreasing (12%) or decreasing significantly (8%) The last time this survey asked this question, in 2020, just 18% expected budgets to rise and 52% said they would remain flat. Respondents said their organization is placing more or much more emphasis on owned media (60%), like blogs, newsletters and websites.

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Survey Communications Measurement Internal 130

Critical Mention

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

If you get continuous alerts that an online publication is promoting your brand in their blog posts, consider returning the favor by sharing their posts or mentioning them in your articles if relevant. In that case, get started and generate conversations and brand credibility by enhancing your media strategies in 2020. Until next time!

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 6, 2020

In a couple of weeks, I’ll be presenting a session at the Earned Media Mastery Summit by Agility PR Solutions and Bulldog Reporter, alongside, Ned Lundquist , Our session is titled, “Earned Media Trends and Best Practices Revealed in an Analysis of the 2020 JOTW Communications Survey.”

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Training Trends Media Survey 95

Flack's Revenge

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The EV blog Electrek broke the news last week that Tesla is dissolving its PR department. And it’s 2020, so I get a pass on cussing. Most corporations are very conservative and would never take an unnecessary risk like this. at the highest level at Tesla with the source saying, ‘We no longer have a PR Team.”

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Leadership Social Media Trends Facebook 282

Sword and the Script

JUNE 30, 2021

Many of these have been in place for years – just 13% of respondents said their organization created a formal DE&I program in response to the social unrest in 2020. Prior year survey results and commentary include the following: 2020 JOTW Communications Survey. Presentation: The 2020 JOTW Communications Survey.

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Survey Communications Ethics Measurement 120

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The company was acquired by the SEO tool SEMrush in late 2020. The company was publicly traded on the Australian Stock exchange and did $120 million in sales in 2020. Investor relations platform Q4 said it rolled out “industry-focused templates for corporate websites and virtual ESG investor days.” History of blogging.

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Software Print Tools SEO 89

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The year 2020 has been many things including a warp in the time-space continuum. SocialChorus claims “50% year-over-year growth in both 2018 and 2019” and that growth “has accelerated in 2020.” Isentia , the largest provider in the Asia-Pacific region, reported revenue for fiscal 2020 was ~$78.3 Or thereabouts.

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Internal International Tools Software 147

Sword and the Script

JULY 14, 2020

According to the Annual JOTW Communications Survey for 2020, the top PR challenges are: 1. You’re not alone; that’s the sentiment that came through in the “challenges” section of the 2020 JOTW Communications Survey. New platforms, news sites, and blogs – along with links, images, videos, and optimizations, oh, it’s endless.

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Survey Measurement System Education 137

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It took years of blood, sweat and corporate treasure to bring these plans to fruition…and they clearly didn’t come close to hitting ROI objectives. It last bought SocialChorus, perhaps one of the best-known internal comms platforms for $100 million in 2020. More gen AI.

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Software Reddit Technology B2B 132

Stern + Associates

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Conferences Finally Made Their Big Comeback In 2020 and 2021, during the pandemic, there was a lot of talk about the demise of in-person conferences. But this prediction, to paraphrase Mark Twain, has been greatly exaggerated.

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Trends Communications Conference Leadership 116

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Blogs, including independent and corporate blogs, can be credible. is $100,000 in 2020; it’s higher for in-house PR and corporate communications roles at $145,500 and lower for PR agencies at $90,000. More: 2020 Public Relations Salary Survey: How Much Money do PRs Pros Make ? Advertising is a distant third.

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Survey Industry Leadership Study 95

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Employers are more believable than government, media reporters with named sources, major corporations, media reports with anonymous sources, advertising and “my social media.”. Don’t mash case studies, white papers, webinars, press releases and blog posts together. click image for higher resolution). Media distrust grows. Did you know?

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Government Survey Ethics Media 138

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 8, 2017

As the practice of public relations has changed over the decades, so has its name – morphing from “publicity” and “press office” in the 1920s to broader and more inclusive terms like “public relations,” “public affairs” and “corporate communications.”

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Publicity Public Affairs Agency Corporate 245

MaccaPR

JANUARY 8, 2021

Corporate Blogs Are Making a Comeback – Big Time. Arik agreed on the power of corporate blogs, citing a University of Massachusetts survey of Fortune 500 companies that revealed that use of corporate blogs skyrocketed to 77% in 2020. He pointed admiringly at Walmart’s corporate blog.

Social Media 62

Social Media Trends Marketing Viral 62

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Sometimes I write a complete blog post on a report – and other times it’s just a blub. Corporate communications teams emphasized “repurchase” “According to Cision data shared with Fast Company , ‘repurchase’ is among the most common keywords in this season’s earnings releases.

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B2B Survey Pitching Software 106

Landis PR

OCTOBER 17, 2022

We recently announced that San Francisco Business Times included Landis in its Top 100 businesses in the Bay Area Corporate Philanthropy list. In our last blog, Landis President Sean Dowdall and Founder David Landis discussed business’s role in fostering and supporting the communities in which our clients, community and family live.

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