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PR And Communications Trends For 2021

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

The year of COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, assorted climate disasters, and a historically divisive presidential contest has accelerated existing trends and opened up new ones for professional communicators. This is particularly true for marketing, and the same applies to brand and corporate communications.

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For comms pros, Silicon Valley Bank is a reminder that trust is currency

Sword and the Script

They didn’t trust the bank. The banking community has some unique dynamics… Scar tissue. The preceding cryptocurrency meltdown toppled a bank or two and reminded us of the financial ghosts; and Uncertainty. Or even more likely, today, simply digits. The only reason money has value is that we say it does.

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Convergence of Marketing & Comms: Insights From E*Trade, Dolby, BitGo,  Bank of the West

Onclusive

We have all been on the front lines of the convergence of marketing and communications, but the transformation has not been without challenges: cultural challenges, organizational design challenges and measurement challenges. Ben Stuart, CMO, Bank of the West. “I Jennifer Bowcock, VP, Global Communications, Dolby.

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Ways to Make Employee Communications More Engaging

PRSay

In this landscape, corporate communications is at risk of being part of the “background noise” of daily life. This puts more pressure on corporate communicators to make their messages more engaging. Earlier in my career, I developed content for a corporate intranet that reached 50,000 employees. Show don’t tell.

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The corporate blog makes a major comeback in 2020

Communications Conversations

Oh, and also, corporate blogging was almost dead. But, corporate blogging was down. According to the good folks at the UMass Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research , corporate blogging use was down to 21% among the Fortune 500–the lowest it had been since they started tracking in 2010. But then a funny thing happened.

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A PR Trend: The Corporate CEO As Social Advocate

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Part of what hinders communicators are changes in the news media. Yet in the Trump era, there’s another sector that may have a unique opportunity to step into the breach — the business community, and those who help CEOs communicate. What category is more loathed than banking?

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PR Lessons From The Biggest Failures of 2023

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Some were management failures, while others were about corporate values or behavior. It issued a cryptic statement alluding to his failure to be “consistently candid” in communications, followed by silence, which gave rise to all kinds of nasty rumors. Yet, nothing happens in a vacuum.

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