Konnect Agency

MARCH 10, 2023

The importance of asking questions, creating moodboards, and fostering collaboration in the work of a Creative Agency. In this blog post, we will establish what it means to “speak visually” and how this skill can artfully map the design direction and help define the destination. Why Does a Creative Agency Use Moodboards?

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Onclusive

JUNE 9, 2021

Welcome back to our blog series about data-driven PR campaign planning! Set your messaging, write the story. To determine the right creative angle, ask yourself—why would my audiences care about this topic? Gain insights into which soundbytes are actually performing with NEO Messaging , Onclusive’s message optimization tool.

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Communications Conversations

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Two Facebook posts in the last week got me thinking: Should I really keep blogging? First, Geoff Livingston talked about how if he had to do it all over again, and start his social presence from the ground up, he would NOT blog. And, it got me thinking: Should I keep blogging in 2015? I started my blog almost six years ago now.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In 1926, psychologist Graham Wallas outlined the basic creative process, which has been the overall framework for understanding and fostering creativity for almost a century. The Wallas process has four general stages: Preparation : loading up your mind to be creative. What do they write about? What language do they use?

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Creativity Product Launch Examples Energy 96

Cision

JULY 21, 2015

While each component of your marketing strategy (email, PR, social media, blogs) should bring you results, it’s often better when two or more components work together. Take blogging and social media. You can write knock-’em-dead content, but without a push from other places, your blog may see little to no traffic on its own.

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Social Media Blogging Media LinkedIn 120

Onclusive

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Owned Media & Content Strategy Owned media consists of publishing content on brand-owned channels such as a customer-facing blog, email campaign, or social media outreach. PR pros will need to either write content themselves or help to drive strategy with a team of writers, editors and guest blog contributors.

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Training Media Training Reputation Crisis Communications 195

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 23, 2017

Public relations experts know that the majority of traffic coming to a blog post comes in the first hours and days of publication. This makes the timely promotion of your blog content critical to its success. There are several tools and creative ways to get your post read by the audience you’re targeting.

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Blogging Airlines Analytics LinkedIn 136

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Constraint breeds creativity. Writing on the Ignite Social Media blog, Bruna Camargo gave the vehicle manufacturer good grades for its response, “Instead of issuing some lame press release about how they’re sorry their guy couldn’t be more eloquent, they embraced it, rolled with it, and are now about to bank on it.

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Onclusive

AUGUST 9, 2021

Owned media consists of publishing content on brand-owned channels such as a customer-facing blog, email campaign, or social media outreach. PR pros will need to either write content themselves or help to drive strategy with a team of writers, editors and guest blog contributors. Writing & Editing of Miscellaneous PR Assets.

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Training Media Training Reputation Crisis Communications 370

Onclusive

AUGUST 22, 2017

The flipside of earned media is owned media: publishing content on brand-owned channels such as a customer-facing blog, Medium publication, and the like. The PR pro either writes some of this content themselves or helps drive strategy with a team of writers/editors and/or guest blog contributors. Media Monitoring & Analysis.

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Media Training Crisis Communications Conference Training 397

Cision

AUGUST 5, 2015

Sometimes writing fabulous blog posts on your business blog isn’t enough to drive the traffic you really want. One of my favorite content marketing strategies is guest blogging. When you write a guest blog post, you get it published on another well-established blog that caters to your target market.

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PR in High Definition

MARCH 26, 2020

If ever there was a time for some creative thinking, it’s now. What we need now is to learn how to think creatively alone, or with the help of your loved ones (yup, really), or your virtual pals and colleagues. Brainstorming can be a brilliant way to boost creativity. Feeling overwhelmed? Hell, yeah. Brainsparker.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This isn’t new, but today there are more digital distractions in the form of tools, tactics and platforms. This requires a combination of creative thinking, analytical skills, and the ability to develop and execute against plan. The internet and social platforms are key tools for storytelling, brand management and connection.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In 1926, psychologist Graham Wallas outlined the basic creative process, which has been the overall framework for understanding and fostering creativity for almost a century. The Wallas process has four general stages: Preparation : loading up your mind to be creative. What do they write about? What language do they use?

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Creativity Product Launch Examples Energy 76

Deirdre Breakenridge

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Advertising agencies created ads for multiple outlets, public relations handled media inquiries and proactively sought after coverage, marketing agencies did a variety of things, but generally focused on brand identity and creative attention-garnering activities. Of course, there’s plenty more each did, but you get the gist. 4) SnapChat.

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Prohibition

DECEMBER 12, 2023

One revolutionary tool that has recently transformed the content creation game, is artificial intelligence (AI). From streamlining design processes and making faster copy changes, to generating compelling written work such as blogs and press releases, and even Instagram captions. AI is proving to be an invaluable tool for businesses.

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Guidelines B2C Tools Creativity 62

Cision

APRIL 24, 2015

However, blogging is one of the leading tools in any brand’s content marketing strategy. And for nonprofit organizations on a budget, blogging can often be the most effective way to engage and mobilize communities. Since 2007, NYPL Blogs has showcased content that continues to inspire and educate a devoted audience.

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Community Mobile Blogging Publicity 120

Mindful Marketing

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Competent users of AI should be able to: Choose the right AI tool – since the rapid ascension of ChatGPT, a variety of other chatbots and AI tools have emerged, some of which are tailored to particular types of information, e.g., Jasper for business and marketers and Chatsonic for news content creators.

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Brand Branding Ethics Tools 99

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 31, 2019

There were 62 posts published on this blog in 2019. In going through the reader analytics for the full year, these are the top 10 most-read posts on this blog about public relations (PR) and marketing. If you haven’t already, consider subscribing to these blog posts by email or RSS. 6) How Long Should a Blog Post be in 2019?

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Blogging Publicity Marketing Survey 80

The Resolution Blog

JANUARY 8, 2018

The content you should be creating 2018 plans are underway and creatives are about to be brought to life. This post and a new feature on insight tool BuzzSumo holds a lot of the answers! More ways to view the world’s questions AnswerThePublic.com, our tool that demonstrates the way people ask questions on Google has had a refresh!

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Tools Publicity Measurement SEO 136

PR in High Definition

JULY 24, 2018

Marketers and communicators are under constant pressure to come up with creative and interesting content every day; sometimes we are given exciting campaigns that spur and drive our creativity, and sometimes the brief is less stimulating, and we get stuck. Brainstorming can be a brilliant way to boost creativity. Back to basics.

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Offleash

JULY 19, 2023

While AI can automate, streamline, and improve the work we do, it can’t bring the same level of creativity, intuition, and certainly not the relationships (putting the “relations” into public relations.) I’ve tested it to generate headlines and taglines to jumpstart the creative process. We are counseling our clients the same.

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Crisis Communications Ethics Creativity Crisis 52

Deirdre Breakenridge

JANUARY 25, 2018

PR professionals are known for their strong writing skills and creative storytelling. There’s a lot to learn when it comes to content, from strategy and creation best practices to the publishing tools and the content measurement. What are the first steps PR pros can take to hone their writing skills?

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Twitter Storytelling Community Writing 157

Deirdre Breakenridge

MAY 13, 2019

Let’s not even start talking about more traditional online sources like blogs, news sites, and forums. In order to make sense of all that “noise”, social listening, monitoring and analytics tools. Once you’ve provided the tool with a big enough training set, it applies your model to any future results.

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PR 20/20

JANUARY 29, 2019

This post originally appeared on the Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute's blog. We excel at the creative side of the process, like the creation of compelling content and telling stories that resonate with customers. HubSpot Content Strategy Tool. Start using the tool for free here. Don't worry: We're only human.

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Tools Strategy SEO Enterprise 51

The Hoyt Organization

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Generative AI is quickly being adopted across many industries as a tool that can save time for some tasks. It can quickly scan and analyze multiple media outlets, blogs, and social media platforms to track brand mentions, sentiment, and trending topics. It provides a tool for efficient, data-driven communication.

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wiredPRworks

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

“How to Write a Superstar Speaker Press Release to Attract the Attention, Business and Applause You Deserve!” Register or Purchase the How to Write a Press Release for Coaches, Speakers and Authors Replay. About Barbara Rozgonyi, Creative PR [Personality + Reputation] Visionary. Get your PR PRIMER now.

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Writing How To Engineering Education 49

Stuart Bruce

MAY 20, 2015

My #PRstack: A practical guide to modern PR tools and workflow is a new crowd-sourced ebook published today. It has 19 chapters, each by a different contributor, detailing tips and tools you can use for different areas of public relations practice and activity. My #PRstack is free and distributed under a Creative Commons license.

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Tools eBook SEO Blogging 60

Reputation Us

AUGUST 28, 2023

Pinto “Learn to be adaptable, resilient, collaborative, creative, innovative. Hammer is a tool. It’s up to us to to figure out how to harness the tools.” It’s up to us to to figure out how to harness the tools.” ” Neville G. Provide information, but do the work.”

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System Technology Banking Community 78

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. If you host your own or are a podcast producer for a third party, make sure all hosts have the tools needed to shine!

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Social Media Film Construction Television 268

Prohibition

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

While it may have felt like the longest month in existence, it didn’t stop the creative minds of marketers around the world. Combining the use of its classic slogan and the current conversation around AI, KitKat Canada came up with a creative video campaign encouraging us to give AI tools a bit of breathing room. You did it.

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Marketing Film Creativity B2C 62

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

wiredPRworks

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

“How to Write a Superstar Speaker Press Release to Attract the Attention, Business and Applause You Deserve!” Register or Purchase the How to Write a Press Release for Coaches, Speakers and Authors Replay. About Barbara Rozgonyi, Creative PR [Personality + Reputation] Visionary. Get your PR PRIMER now.

Writing 40

Writing How To Engineering Education 40

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

Shift Communications

MAY 17, 2023

We take the word “responsible” seriously, and we have spent hours deliberating if, when and how our staff should use genAI tools. 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. Use it transparently.

Publicity 78

Publicity Guidelines Training Transportation 78

Shift Communications

MAY 17, 2023

We take the word “responsible” seriously, and we have spent hours deliberating if, when and how our staff should use genAI tools. 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. Use it transparently.

Publicity 78

Publicity Guidelines Training Transportation 78

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 30, 2017

The news cycle was faster, social media was hitting the early majority in the Geoffrey Moore sense, and blogs…blogs were everywhere. We started a blog for our employer, a startup in the IT operations space. Some of the newer and smaller startups that had been blogging for a while ran circles around us.

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Blogging B2B Content Marketing Trade Shows 73