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United we Brand? Top Reads on Corporate Activism

Flack's Revenge

It reported how agricultural giant Cargill fell out of favor with environmentalists: For years, the American agricultural giant Cargill has been on relatively good terms with environmental advocates, praised for agreeing to a landmark moratorium on buying soybeans grown on deforested land in the Amazon rain forest.

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The Ongoing Importance of Sustainable Practices for Consumer Brands

5W PR

Forget the boring corporate social responsibility reports and dull “eco-friendly” slogans scrawled across plastic packaging. The brand prioritizes sourcing sunflower oil from sustainable agriculture. It’s about empowering entire communities and proving that delicious flavors and responsibility can go hand-in-hand.

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15 Up-and-Coming PR and Social Media Marketers to Watch

Communications Conversations

Courtney landed her permanent role off a 6-month social media internship in the Corporate Communications department at UnitedHealth Group. She quickly demonstrated a willingness to ask questions in what can be large, intimidating corporate meetings, and she eagerly sought opportunities to get in front of C-suite executives.

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#measurePR Recap (May 2017): From Cadillacs to Shoestrings

Waxing UnLyrical

Here’s who was there from Extension: Elizabeth Gregory North , Head of Agricultural Communications. Founder and publisher of Waxing UnLyrical, Shonali Burke helps smart businesses make bank by taking their communications from corporate codswallop to community cool™. Quisto Settle , Assistant Professor.

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10 Million Reasons to Make AI Education Accessible for Marketers

PR 20/20

To the three great technological revolutions–the agricultural, the industrial, and the computational–we will add a fourth: the AI revolution.” — Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI. Private Slack community. Corporate partners/sponsors , including: HubSpot, Drift, Persado, MarketMuse, Mobilewalla, Pattern89, Pandata, rasa.io Webinar library.

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5 Newsworthy Content Ideas for the 2016 Election Season

Beyond PR

Hand in hand with monetary policy are key platform items focused on energy independence, agriculture and clean energy jobs in coal, oil and natural gas. And if you look closely, you can even see grassroots and corporate organizations working together to support policies that benefit everyone. Energy and Environment. Social Advocacy.

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Examining the (weird) science of communication presentations

PR Conversations

Whether it is a field of scientific endeavour, a corporate communications challenge or an attempt to communicate the position of a government or government department, a diverse talent pool will eventually do a better job than a single demographic. This means there is no chance you’ll pigeon hole her on a conference agenda.