ISEBOX

OCTOBER 4, 2016

People always talk about finding your “angle” when referring to writing. Find the right angle for the personas you’re writing for, and create an article (or multiple articles if you’re distributing to multiple personas) for distribution. It’s also important to write in a tone that is on point with what you’re writing.

Writing 70

Writing SEO Engineering Blogging 70

Deirdre Breakenridge

OCTOBER 21, 2019

A Guest Post By Brittani Riddle, Graduate Student, American University & PR Expanded Blog Contest Winner. If you want to add creative sonic elements to your audio, try some of these free sound effects. Mention any reference materials such as books or albums while discussing the topic? Sell the Star Power.

Social Media 268

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 10, 2017

It’s easy to believe there are a million marketing blogs but that’s just not true. If you blog about marketing – especially with any semblance of frequency – you are in fact among a fair small group. There are more blogs focused on personal development than any other topic, according to the survey.

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Survey Blogging Corporate Analytics 60

Sword and the Script

MARCH 28, 2017

The Media Reference Challenge. A simple way to do this is to request an interview for a corporate blog. The operative phrases here is interview for a blog post – not a media interview. Have a skilled PR professional with good interviewing and writing skills interview a customer about trends in the industry or problems they face.

B2B 60

B2B Blogging How To Media 60

Shift Communications

MAY 17, 2023

How we don’t: to write press releases, talking points or other materials that are not already in the public domain. For a fun exercise, ask ChatGPT to write your bio. One of our leaders refers to ChatGPT as an “intelligent idiot.” How we use it: to spark creativity and speed up the cycle between ideation and execution.

Publicity 78

Publicity Guidelines Training Transportation 78

Shift Communications

MAY 17, 2023

How we don’t: to write press releases, talking points or other materials that are not already in the public domain. For a fun exercise, ask ChatGPT to write your bio. One of our leaders refers to ChatGPT as an “intelligent idiot.” How we use it: to spark creativity and speed up the cycle between ideation and execution.

Publicity 78

Publicity Guidelines Training Transportation 78

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2023

ChatGPT seems to miss emerging themes if there isn’t a wide body of writing already on a topic. Creativity: PR practitioners must be able to think creatively and come up with new and innovative ideas for campaigns and projects. Some may see irony in an AI system that writes reasonably well suggesting writing is a top skill.

Interviews 99

Interviews Publicity Technology Social Media 99

ZudePR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

And my primary sources of information, advice, enjoyment, and inspiration have been blogs (and bloggers). Not spammy 300-600-worders but 1500-word+ writings of real value (yes, I know there’s a degree of enlightened self-interest for the author, but the wisdom they impart is worth the minor commercialism). Thousands of them.

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Blogging Print System Sports 75

Onclusive

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Mika Stambaugh is an Emmy award winning journalist and dynamic entrepreneur known for her creative strategies in executing media and communication campaigns. I came to the name after incorporating my initials — ‘MAS’ is Spanish for ‘more’ — and ‘ink’ references pen-to-paper; writing your story to build and manage your communications.

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Interviews Radio Small Business Pitching 284

Contently - Strategy

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

This piece originally appeared on Contently’s The Freelance Creative. ” Let’s take a look at why marketing writers and editors should take fact-checking seriously—and how they can do so without spending all day, every day looking up stats and references. In traditional journalism, diligent fact-checking is a given.

Content Marketing 144

Content Marketing Marketing Viral Study 144

Wadds Inc.

JANUARY 11, 2023

Text at the click of a button There’s a great deal of excitement about the technology as it seemingly is able to mimic human creativity and generate and edit content incredibly quickly. Public relations applications: analysis, editing, research and writing The promise of GPT-3 is that it will automate and eliminate administrative tasks.

Publicity 98

Publicity Wikipedia Marketing Training 98

Cision

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Schedule Your Blog Posts. I’m big on writing several weeks’ worth of blog content at once so I can dedicate a chunk of time to focusing on my (or my clients’) blog. Bonus Tip: Because weeks can go by before I write for a blog again, I keep a document with topic ideas that I can refer to when I sit down to write.

Communications 120

Communications How To eBook Training 120

Mindful Marketing

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

There’s not much that can be done creatively with boxy LED letters on a black background, but humor is one amendable approach. These two attributes are integral to most successful organizations: It’s very helpful to have individuals and departments that bring different perspectives, including creative vision and risk assessment.

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Guidelines Transportation Creativity Airlines 95

Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 31, 2019

For reference, Mary Barra (remember she has 1.2 The other half were either a branded graphic of some sort or a link image to a blog post or other GM online entity. I see four big best practices we could all put to use with our executive partners: Write like a PERSON, not an executive. Let’s look at the analytics.

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Landis PR

JANUARY 18, 2023

Polly Ikonen : So, there’s writing a blog post, and then there’s writing a blog post anyone would want to read. ChatGPT’s blog lacks specifics, anecdotes, cultural references, stylistic oomph. Gretchen Krueger : What I’ve noticed is the lack of creative content. Read on for our initial thoughts!

Education 52

Education Training Technology Journalism 52

Buzzstream

MARCH 7, 2024

Google Search Central blog just posted a new update titled “What web creators should know about our March 2024 core update and new spam policies” The post outlines several changes that could impact the future of link building, content creation, and upend strategies that many sites rely on. But wait a minute, is all of this new?

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Solo PR Pro

MARCH 29, 2022

From webinars to conferences, blogs to heading back to the classroom, there are many ways for us to invest in ourselves and our work with ongoing professional development. Blogs, Books, and Podcasts. Take advantage of self-directed learning with blogs, books and podcasts in your areas of interest. Take a class. Pull a thread.

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Conference Reddit Local Course 80

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

It’s not just thinking about writing that I’ve been engaging in. It’s not just thinking about writing that I’ve been engaging in. Image: mj*laflaca via Flickr , Creative Commons It’s about how that writing looks. D’oh, you say. Preview before you publish. Image: U.S.

Blogging 86

Blogging Writing Facebook Twitter 86

The Hoffman Agency

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

While some of us pursued degrees in PR or journalism, many stumbled upon the industry from something vastly different: from accounting, history, law, to other creative backgrounds. Hear from the team as they share how they got to where they are now in an exclusive, blog series showcasing the diverse backgrounds of Hoffman Europe.

B2B 41

B2B Creativity Agency Writing 41

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Ten Reasons PR Pros Should Blog November 10th, 2010 Tweet Last week, Joe Hackman hosted Danny Brown , Gini Dietrich and me on his BlogTalkRadio show, aptly entitled PRapalooza. Blogging is a strange beast.

Blogging 90

Blogging Facebook Twitter Writing 90

Doctor Spin

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

As a PR professional, I often meet with experienced, intelligent, ambitious, conscientious, creative, and highly motivated decision-makers. This refers to a lack of concentration or direction in thought processes. This refers to using mental shortcuts or rules of thumb to make quick, efficient judgments. Fallacious thinking.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 14, 2011

If you’re just getting started blogging (or maybe even if you’ve been doing it a while), here are some WordPress plugins I really really like. I really like its functionality, plus it’s a great way for folks to search on your blog as well as on the Interwebz without actually leaving your blog. LinkWithin.

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Blogging Facebook Twitter Measurement 93

Doctor Spin

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

These models are inspired heavily by the writings of Charlie Munger, Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and long-time collaborator of Warren Buffett and many others. Fat Pitch —Borrowed from baseball, this concept refers to waiting patiently for the perfect opportunity—a situation where the chances of success are exceptionally high.

How To 52

How To eBook Wikipedia Viral 52

Presspage

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This has been triggered in no small part by the public release of ChatGPT in November 2022, a Large Language Model (LLM) capable of generating what I will now refer to as “convincing text” - something we will get back to a little later. Extracting summaries or lists of key points/topics. Suggesting titles, ideas, etc.

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Corporate Communications Training Data 88

Contently - Strategy

MAY 9, 2024

Writing a white paper is the heavyweight bout of content creation. Here are some tips for writing a white paper, from choosing a topic to sharing your content with the world. Take a look at the topics of content you’ve already created, like blogs, social media posts, and podcast episodes, for inspiration.

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Writing Case Study Study Brand 85

Cision

OCTOBER 6, 2015

To lead up to his Cision webinar, Brad Phillips wrote a blog post that featured a few of the mistakes top executives make during media interviews. Sorry, was that one of those irrelevant, lame jokes you were referring to? To the contrary, I believe that simplifying complexity takes more creativity and intelligence, not less.

Interviews 120

Interviews How To Healthcare Media Training 120

Cision

DECEMBER 3, 2015

At her upcoming Cision webinar, “ From A to Z: Blogging and Content for PR ,” she’ll go into more detail on the topic and share her top tips for building a content strategy that will boost your brand and drive results. Competitors start to refer business to you because they perceive they can’t do it as well as you do.

Content Marketing 120

Content Marketing Strategy Marketing How To 120

Bad Pitch Blog

AUGUST 27, 2009

Here are some quick links to help you with your pitching efforts -- they all focus on writing. It’s a great creative exercise to keep your writing chops honed and your brain thinking. 2) Acronym Finder Acronym Finder.com Acronyms are inside baseball and ultimately make your writing harder to read.

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Writing Engineering Exercises Twitter 47

Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Establishing your voice A blog post with pointers isn’t only meant to teach, it is also meant to connect with readers. Instead, Steve encourages people to be creative and to inject personality into their communications. Creativity, for them, is an afterthought. Image: Stuart Caie via Flickr, CC 2.0

Blogging 71

Blogging Twitter Creativity Facebook 71

Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 7, 2018

Creativity is desired, yet is in short supply. Recently, I came across a blog post by a fellow named John Maeda in which he showcased the wide variety of Google image results one finds when searching for “design thinking.” I had never heard of it before skimming through the blog post. Just not our basics. Here’s what I mean.

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Creativity Writing Blogging Consumer 64

Cision

JUNE 16, 2015

When I compare the reads for this release to a previous one announcing my writing for Forbes, this one had nearly double the reads. You can use this knowledge about the number of reads to tailor future press releases, as well as blog posts and other content. Images: jkfid , Okko Pyykkö ( Creative Commons ).

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ZudePR

MARCH 22, 2018

Have you always aspired to write a book? 1 The Seed is Planted #2 Doing the Research #3 Getting the Self-Publishing Mindset #4 What the Hell am I Going to Write About? #5 I’d been business blogging since early 2014, and diligently sending out helpful stuff to my email list subscribers since early 2015. (I Table of Contents. #1

Writing 83

Writing Google Blogging Exercises 83

Sword and the Script

JULY 2, 2019

Writing on the company’s blog , Lindsey Woodward , who leads the client support team said, “Whether jumping on a call to assist in creating an internal newsletter or report for your boss or setting up new employees on the Meltwater platform, we want our clients to have personal and open communication with Meltwater.”.

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Trends Media Report Technology 60

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

Image: sahmeepee via Flickr , Creative Commons The Best means that you are indubitably, unequivocally, indisputably the best in who you are, what you do, and what you stand for, no matter who – or what – else you are compared with, or what others might be exposed to. And not their fame of reference. Across any industry.

Measurement 66

Measurement Tourism Blogging Writing 66

Bad Pitch Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2006

The Bad Pitch Blog is awarding Glinda, our good pitch badge of honor, to The Morris + King Company for turning ProfNet’s value add into a publicity opp for their firm. Creativity and an Internet connection is all that''s standing between you and a similar feat. My assumption was they are fast and creative.

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PR 20/20

JUNE 9, 2020

Before getting started, we referred back to the Growth-Driven Design Methodology. Next, with a firm grasp on current performance, the team developed a Creative Brief. During this phase, the team created design mockups (in Keynote) for different types of pages—like main navigation pages, offer pages, landing pages, and the blog.

Web 60

Web Internal International Storytelling 60

The Hoffman Agency

AUGUST 21, 2019

Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day , more commonly referred to as Bring Your Child to Work Day , has been an American tradition for decades, but with the changing attitudes toward marriage, children and professionalism, our Washington office decided the institution needed a modern spin. Shannon Nelson with boyfriend, Zak Moses.

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Storytelling Technology Publicity Exercises 31