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$100 Million M&A for Internal Comms Tool: What’s Older is Still News in Marchlyjunetember [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

Internal comms tool SocialChorus acquired by a PE firm; Burton-Taylor digs up revenue numbers; Nexis Newsdesk Simplifies news search; Propel adds broadcast monitoring Welcome to the beginning of September. The company helps leaders and communicators create, publish and distribute text and multimedia messages to an internal team.

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More on PR2020: social media activism, internal comms resurgence, storytelling and professionalism

Stephen Waddington

There were some clear misses in my original essay: social media activism, internal communications, storytelling and professionalism in PR. The resurgence of internal communications Internal communications is one of the hottest areas of contemporary PR. I’ve developed each of these themes below. It is enjoying significant growth.

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Focusing Your B2B Tech Marketing on Outcomes and Solutions

Contently - Strategy

Don’t get me wrong—decision-makers and internal influencers, particularly technical buyers, do want to know about the functional aspects. Even though your technology targets an enterprise or another entity, it’s easy to forget that it’s people you have to convince. ” And remember that B2B buyers are humans.

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Would you Run Your Internal Data Through this Media Monitoring AI? PR Tech Sum: Talkwalker, TVEyes, Meltwater, SocialChorus, Cision, Signal AI and Burrelles

Sword and the Script

This month was no exception, and perhaps because many of the launches were timed with annual PRSA International Conference which wrapped up recently. The feature enables “enterprises to analyze customer conversations from owned data sources” and let the Talkwalker AI engine analyze it. What sort of data?

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10 ethical issues facing public relations - PRCA Ethics Council Annual

Stephen Waddington

Artificial intelligence, paid influence, mental health and fake news are all issues identified by a group of international practitioners in a series of reflective essays published by the PRCA. Paid influence In France, a 1964 decree lays down the principle that the practice of public relations is incompatible with advertising.

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What Communicators Need to Know About Measurement Right Now

PRSay

Mark Weiner, a longtime PRSA member and the chief insights officer for Cognito, an international research-based communications consulting firm, is the report’s lead writer. The guide also features examples and applications, a research and evaluation cadence reporting table and the top-10-plus must-reads on evaluation.

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6 Areas of Digital Marketing & PR Transformation

The Proactive Report

A new study from Skyword and Researchscape International found that the majority of enterprise marketers have yet to take all of the steps necessary to set their departments up for success. “This dictates a shift in mindset from pure product marketing and interruption advertising to an editorial focus on building audience.

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