Communications Conversations

JULY 26, 2018

I’ve seen a number of articles recently that have focused on a growing–and increasingly troublesome–trend in our industry: Our complete over-reliance on tools and technology. Brands don’t need to be purchasing more technology–they need to be purchasing less. Especially (sadly) on the agency side.

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PR 20/20

MAY 8, 2019

Technology will get smarter , intelligently automating traditionally human-powered activities while adding layers of complexity to your martech stack. Brands will need to become more human with greater resources dedicated to listening, relationship building, ethics, empathy, creativity, culture and community. Career paths will evolve.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

An interest in digital marketing and technology eventually lead him to a sales gig with Vocus, the former PR software maker that was eventually swallowed up by Cision. From there, he parlayed that experience into helping agencies with sales and business development.

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PRSay

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In 2023, “AI has become a huge topic,” said Chris Perry, chair of Weber Shandwick Futures , the communication firm’s research and development lab that seeks to help PR agencies and their clients adapt to the major changes that artificial intelligence is causing. Relatively speaking, [AI] is still very new.

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PRSay

JULY 9, 2021

In today’s PR agency world, with its seemingly endless permutations of team structures and hierarchies, there are several scenarios in which younger workers might help guide their more experienced counterparts. An example that immediately comes to mind involves technology. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2023

Public affairs: This involves working with government officials and agencies to shape public policy and advocate on behalf of an organization.”. Adaptability: PR is a rapidly evolving field, and PR practitioners must be able to adapt to new trends and technologies in order to be successful. And in B2B marketing it already does.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

It’s far too easy to say that B2B technology is dull. Yet that’s the central responsibility of the creative marketer – to convert the uninteresting into something interesting. Even in B2B technology, marketers will find better success focusing on story in which the prospect sees themselves. 3) Creativity is the Soul of CMO.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Yet we like fast response time – PR, especially a PR agency, is a fast-paced environment. We geek out over the latest tech announcements – For anyone who doesn’t work in tech, things like the latest product launch or software update are not important.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2019

It found as the Wall Street Journal reported , “Advertisers with in-house agencies increased to 64% of the survey’s respondents from 42% a decade ago, according to the study.” (By So, what does this in-housing trend mean for PR agencies? I’d like to believe, PR agencies that specialized in crisis communications can identify here.

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The Hoffman Agency

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The social distancing rules and economic impact of Covid 19 seem to have hastened conversations about automation (from software to robotics), with many organisations including PR agencies and publications looking at where it can improve efficiencies. A hybrid approach for PR agencies and media companies. So what’s the solution?

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 1, 2020

That’s clear in the findings from the annual marketing and creative salary survey conducted by The Creative Group and parent company Robert Half. While there’s always been a demand for marketers with marketing technology skills, the Coronavirus seems to have redoubled the emphasis. The survey polled, 2,400 senior managers (U.S.)

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The Resolution Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Born out from the simple idea that there must be a better way to do PR coverage reporting, using technology. The tool started life as a side project from our day jobs at the marketing agency Propellernet. We dreamt of building our own software business. So, 6 of us left agency work and committed to the cause full time.

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Cision

JANUARY 2, 2018

And it’s killing your ability to be creative with your campaigns. Instead, she said her brand’s ad agency was producing a “million-dollar campaign,” and the company’s existing content was just being used by the PR department. Staying Creative With Content. But that wasn’t the case.

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The Resolution Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

What You’ll Do You’ll work direct with some of the most interesting and creative PR teams in the world and help them be a success in their roles with the use of CoverageBook. We experienced a problem in PR reporting and built technology to solve it. We dreamt of building our own software business. Great writing is key.

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Stephen Waddington

JANUARY 11, 2021

Lisa Eaton is the founder and managing director of Unwritten , a strategic communication agency based in the North of England. We’re already seeing significant changes here, particularly around technology and data and how this is used or stored and a reluctance to spend in the same way as pre-COVID times.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Good public relations can be an essential way for a brand to stand out from the pack, especially in the B2B/ technology sector. Instead, the PR agency or team should work with leadership to commit to a strict definition of the brand voice — and it should come from a place of authenticity. There are some PR tactics that can help.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 16, 2014

From the latest tool or piece of automation software to measurement or campaign tactics, very few things we come across in the communications industry are truly unique. Most “major” technological advancements are just that, advancements on an idea that has actually been around for a long time. Tori Sabourin. Marketing Analyst.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

JUNE 6, 2023

One thing is certain, this giant step in the technological revolution is here to stay and only growing more extensive and impactful daily. Content Creation and Curation: AI technologies can assist marketers in creating and curating content. AI helps prepare our thinking and craft to realize our creative vision.”

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Barokas

APRIL 16, 2019

Most entrepreneurs – especially in technology – don’t set out with a vision of building a low or slow growth business. There are countless technology companies that have grown slowly, or not reached the billion-dollar mark, but will still stick around for the long haul. They dream big – and aim high. Everyone wants to be a unicorn.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Almost all of them reported something new – new roles, new responsibilities, new technology, new, new, new. In technology, the classic comparison of Salesforce to Oracle is an iconic example. Salesforce positioned itself as the antidote to software as it brought predictable pricing and short-circuited premise software implementations.

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Shift Communications

APRIL 1, 2016

SHIFT Communications, the premiere data-driven PR agency , announced today the release of the Heuristic And Recurrent Ontological Lexicon Deep-learner, or HAROLD, the world’s first artificially intelligent (AI), cloud-based PR employee. Vice President, Marketing Technology. The Shakespeare example above is real, generated by our AI.

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The Resolution Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Love, Little Rock Location: US The brand: Little Rock Regional Chamber The agency: Stone Ward It all started with an ad. The agency that worked with the Little Rock Regional Chamber, Stone Ward, bought the ad in The Washington Post and sprinkled some cash into targeted online ads. In total, less than $80,000 was spent on ads.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 7, 2020

Some PR technology vendors have made pandemic-related announcements, but there’s a bit of “business as usual” too On the first Tuesday of the month, I publish a summary of news from the vendors building PR technology tool ( PR tech sum ). The company uses AI to power its media monitoring technology.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 31, 2018

2) To buy a technology that’s hard to replicate or take too long. FiscalNote is building out a government relations software that combines data, analytics and workflow. The Congressional Quarterly (CQ) part of CQ Roll Call has software that does something similar. What FiscalNote Does. Roll Call earned 1.4 execute them?

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Agency experienced preferred. It’s a bit of a catch 22 because firms only want to hire people with agency experience, but you need agency experience to get hired. We are indeed a tech company specializing in micro-giving fundraising solutions; however, we’re a mini-marketing agency as well.

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Traffic & Conversion Summit 2020 will feature seven tracks including: big ideas, agencies only, digital retailers, digital advertisers, content marketers, conversational marketers and growth hackers. This is a good fit if you’re looking to master content technology and strategy in 2020. Build a Better Agency Summit.

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PR 20/20

APRIL 1, 2021

That same week, I was offered my first internship with a public relations agency in Cleveland, Ohio (my hometown). I spent five years at that agency after graduation, then started my marketing firm, PR 20/20 , in 2005. Think about how rapidly technology has evolved over the last two decades. That’s the challenge AI presents.

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PRSay

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Given that AirPR is a PR technology company, we get a front-row seat to some of the best and brightest PR professionals in the industry, individuals who care deeply about whether or not their work is driving website traffic, sales and so forth. They are innately creative. But there are others that are not taught as easily.

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Konnect Agency

APRIL 6, 2021

With many businesses and industries creatively learning to adapt to the “new normal,” some have seen great success. The unique circumstance inspired more people to get creative by picking up new hobbies to keep busy and seek entertainment sources. amid the home cooking boom.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 8, 2016

Shifting from promoting academic programs, athletic team championships and campus construction to raising visibility for ad tech platforms, cloud software and mobile apps is a complete 180, right? I began my career in agency tech PR in 1999 during the dotcom boom. Critical and Creative Thinking. Not as much as you’d think.

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Stephen Waddington

JULY 11, 2018

We're the world's most creative PR agency delivering work that matters. AI has become a catch all term to describe technology that simplifies a task for a human being. Technology is impacting PR work in a variety of ways, including the simplification of tasks; listening and monitoring; and automation. Welcome to Ketchum.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 22, 2016

Agile is a best practice for the software development industries. Skills such as Lean Six Sigma (LSS) and Agile might seem off target to digital marketing, and at one point they would have been, but Marketing Technology as an industry and profession is becoming more widely accepted and understood. Manager, Marketing Technology.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 22, 2016

Agile is a best practice for the software development industries. Skills such as Lean Six Sigma (LSS) and Agile might seem off target to digital marketing, and at one point they would have been, but Marketing Technology as an industry and profession is becoming more widely accepted and understood. Manager, Marketing Technology.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Against that backdrop, I’ve organized this year’s prediction roundup into the following categories: Predictions that have little or nothing to do with AI; Predictions that express caution about AI; Predictions that are enthusiastic about AI; Predictions from PR software executives; and One prediction from ChatGPT.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 8, 2018

This latest survey polled 362 senior marketers and I’ve culled through the 95-page report to review the data from B2B product segment and the technology vertical, which are the markets I serve. In the technology vertical, budget growth is expected to grow even more – to 12.4% As a vertical, technology companies invest 9.7%

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

As communications becomes more digital, more quantified, and more data-driven, the pressure is on for pros to be as comfortable with data collection, metrics and measurement as they are at writing and creativity. If you don’t have the in-house capabilities to be smart with data, work with other agencies that do. Meet Shannon.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Ad agencies, SEO services, Facebook, Google, Twitter, know how to scale their promotional work through technology. Where are PR’s scalable technologies of persuasion? The creative process can’t be automated or scaled well – again, a function of dealing with humans. Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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