Shift Communications

JANUARY 3, 2022

By Natalie Marinaro, VP, Technology. Remote work environments were concretely established with 81% of Americans using videoconferencing technology. As we enter 2022, SHIFT’s Workplace Technology Practice has the privilege of hearing from many leaders (our clients) about what’s next in the workplace. Stop going into the office.

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The Hoyt Organization

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As businesses become more digitized, paying attention to current trends, like the ever-growing importance of social media and data analytics, helps to promote and protect brand image. Now that we are in the fourth quarter of 2023, it’s time to ask yourself if your PR strategy is up-to-date with the latest pr trends and technology.

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Shift Communications

JULY 26, 2022

By Amanda Munroe, SVP, Technology Practice. In our Workplace Tech and Services practice at SHIFT, we’ve worked with clients on building up narratives around the resulting labor shortage and what it means to the American worker, workplace technology adoption and the future of work. The post Is Your Brand Messaging Recession-Ready?

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 9, 2024

In this edition: Cision silently rebrands HARO; Meltwater’s dealmaking continues; PR tech briefs and mentions content picks There have been so many private equity (PE) deals among PR technology companies, that it’s easy to lose track of who owns what. HARO is a name universally recognized brand, so the rebrand doesn’t make sense to me at all.

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PRSay

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

There are more ways than ever to become a well-informed job candidate and employee. Develop your personal brand. More than ever, your personal brand, including your brand narrative, will be more important in achieving job-search success. Just like Google, Amazon and Nike, your brand needs a compelling storyline.

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Onclusive

JUNE 11, 2021

Successful brands put a lot of thought into their messaging, how they want to deliver those messages, through which channels, and how they want to evolve them over time. In this webinar, you’ll learn: How message optimization can help you own the story Why NEO Messaging technology is unique Best practices for using NEO Messaging.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

AUGUST 29, 2023

To cultivate a thriving brand in the present era, marketers must wholeheartedly embrace diversity, ensuring their campaigns mirror the richness of their audiences’ experiences and backgrounds. Brand marketing is a key arena where the call for inclusivity has grown louder and more resonant than ever before.

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Cision

JULY 27, 2017

But there’s one aspect of your business that I’d encourage you to pay more attention to — brand situational awareness. Why Leaders & Execs Need to Know How Their Brand is Perceived. But understand: having a vision of your brand’s status that is misaligned with reality can cause you and your team to make poor business decisions.

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Onclusive

AUGUST 10, 2021

This week, we’re focusing on one of the primary functions of communications and PR—producing impactful content that resonates with your brand’s key audiences. Great content lies at the heart of everything communications does, including employee and leadership communications and PR. Elizabeth Barrett. VP Research, Gartner.

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Onclusive

JANUARY 26, 2022

PR pros need a data-driven strategy to reach their goals of securing high-impact media coverage for their brands. One way to do that is to use smart technology to help you out. Understanding what to pitch, to whom and what’s working / not working requires access to relevant information. Where do you find impactful journalists?

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Onclusive

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Corporate reputation has surpassed profitability in its importance to business success—today’s customers, employees, investors, and other stakeholders have many choices, and they are leaning toward companies with a stellar public image. Your brand name is only as good as your reputation. Richard Branson.

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Cision

JANUARY 28, 2016

Your audience is looking for stories, and the ones that resonate with them will generate leads and drive results for your brand. But is your brand telling the right story? For your brand’s content to be successful, you need to implement brand journalism. But what does brand journalism success look like? McDonald’s.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 23, 2019

Three question areas in particular – about goals, issues and technology – stood out to me. As the graphic nearby shows, there’s greater consensus around “differentiating the brand from the competition” while the rest of the answers trail off into the low double digits or less. 3) PR Technology is about Customer Experience.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2024

Top stories in today’s summary of PR news: Cision shutters the HARO brand; Agility adds “Intelligent Insights”; PR tech company replaces employees with AI On the first Tuesday of every month, I sort through all the news I can find on PR technology or comms tech and present it in a summary post like this one.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Crenshaw Communications, an award-winning B2B PR firm representing leading ad tech brands, recently welcomed Patrice Gamble as PR account director and Anna Julow Roolf as chief of staff. Anna brings over a decade of experience in the B2B PR industry, including leadership roles in agency and SaaS startup environments.

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Agility PR Solutions

MAY 1, 2019

While technology brings many benefits to the workplace, a new study from Randstad US and Future Workplace on the influence of technology throughout the employee lifecycle—from hiring to engagement and retention—highlights several negative effects.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Some executives are reluctant to share their end game, due to the unpredictability of market conditions or because they don’t want employees to be unsettled. Our firm was brought in by a successful email services provider (ESP) who had built and bought technology to expand its services into marketing automation and digital marketing.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 4, 2022

They’re also important; in fact, a company shouldn’t be in business if it can’t point to high quality and talented employees. We represented a technology company that had almost closed after its preloaded audiobook business failed to catch on with readers. There may be evidence to support them, which always helps.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 12, 2018

Here’s a “cheat sheet” to help brands get a leg up on the PR universe this year. How to maximize brand PR: a “cheat sheet” Remember the investment goes beyond the PR budget. Not every brand has a tight, easily told story, and some have complicated, dull, or even questionable histories.

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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. 6 PR tactics to differentiate your brand. A company can set itself apart by speaking in a distinct brand voice. There are some PR tactics that can help. Have a distinct voice. Is it humorous?

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PR for Anyone

JANUARY 28, 2024

Erica Keswin is a 3x WSJ bestselling author, public speaker, and consultant for various major global brands. The dialogue dives into the transformative role of technology in bridging generational gaps, and proposing practical strategies for companies to retain valuable talent. ACEing Flexibility So, what is ACE?

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Every day, countless brands compete for attention on popular digital channels , yet only a few leave a lasting mark in people’s memories. After all, by creating short yet meaningful content, you can capture your audience’s attention and nurture brand recall in one fell swoop.

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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. What I’ve seen is this: Brands purchasing and increasing number of social media tools. Brand over-relying on social analytics tools.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Companies all around the world are met with the difficult task of effectively communicating with and engaging their employees, customers and other constituents. As technology has evolved and offered us as practitioners in the PR profession new ways of doing our work, communications should be getting easier and more engaging.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The “Brand Finance Investment Analyst Survey” polled more than 200 financial analysts who “cover publicly listed companies in the United States and United Kingdom.” This is cited ahead of leadership quality (76%) and technological innovation (72%).” Comment: A brand is a promise. And a brand is bigger than marketing.

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Onclusive

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In the post-COVID world, what companies say and do when times are challenging has a profound effect on how they are viewed by customers, employees, the community, and shareholders. This is the state of the art in communications and reputation measurement and represents the next major breakthrough in public relations technology.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 28, 2019

That’s the backdrop for brands considering taking a public stand on a political position. Technology companies opposing (or supporting) the repeal of net neutrality, or an outdoor great marker supporting the environment are straightforward business cases for taking a position. Most of it is shouting, and there is very little listening.

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Cision

AUGUST 22, 2017

One of the roles of a good leader of a multinational company is to help build and maintain a global brand, as well as unify company culture. As an executive, it isn’t your responsibility alone to ensure that your brand is recognized as a leader in its industry, but it is a continuous effort and an exciting journey.

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Stern + Associates

MARCH 27, 2024

The current and future employee is now a key strategic audience. If they aren’t already, organizations will be competing for talent beyond compensation and benefits and utilize effective communications to do so, including the use of executives to establish brands known for being good places to work.

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The Hoffman Agency

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Copyright : [link] , Christopher Burns (@christopher__burns) As the landscape continues to evolve and new trends and technologies redefine industry standards, we invite you to join us as we explore the frontiers of the marketing and communications world in 2024. The key to this is a strengths-based attitude. Home sweet home? Probably not.

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Cision

MAY 31, 2017

After surveying 2,000 adults to test their attention spans, Microsoft found that technology, social media, and the large volume of media people consume daily is linked to their inability to focus for extended periods of time. Upon snapping photos of them, participants were given the option to add a branded filter to their Snapchat photos.

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Prohibition

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Overview of Tech PR Tech PR is the strategic use of communications and relationships to build the reputation of a brand or business in the technology industry. Role of Tech PR in promoting technology companies Tech PR plays a vital role in promoting technology companies.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

PR, on the other hand, with its ties to reputation and crisis management, is thought to play a more defensive role, designed to protect the corporate brand. A strategic public relations campaign can build significant corporate and product brand value, especially over time. But it’s not a contest. A sudden market shift or crisis.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 3, 2023

I’ve been writing this monthly column about PR technology companies for nearly five years – and I’m still continuously reminded that while these companies make software for communicators, they are not typically communication experts. I believe the generative AI is based on OpenAI technology, which makes ChatGPT. Kick-ass” PR blogs.

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PR for Anyone

APRIL 7, 2020

Christina Daves (01:47- 01:52) How are you taking advantage of video and marketing that can serve as the voice of your brand? Many businesses all over the world had no choice but to shut down and let their employees go. Despite the social distance, we can remain connected through the use of technology.

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5W PR

APRIL 19, 2023

In addition to the legal requirements, there are many reasons why a company should prioritize accessibility and inclusion for employees and customers with disabilities. External Benefits For businesses, brand image and reputation are crucial factors that can make or break success. But they also have significant internal benefits.

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Onclusive

APRIL 22, 2021

Some of these will be different for every company—depending on factors like your scale, organizational structure, the technology you leverage, and your geographic location. For example, a certain technology is your main competitive advantage, your organization may be more prone to a technological crisis. Expect the unexpected.

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