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The Most Underrated Skill in Content Marketing? Fact-Checking

Contently - Strategy

When a brand is behind a story, there’s bias involved. I treat every story as a valuable source of information for readers—and a valuable gateway to a brand.” Whether I’m penning a reported piece, ghostwriting, or composing a blog post for a brand, there are a few fact-checking measures I always take.

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How PR Can Establish Your Brand

Mora Communications

Ask twenty people to define what it means to establish a brand and chances are you’ll come away with twenty different answers. According to Wikipedia, ‘a Brand is the “name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller’s good or service as distinct from those of other sellers.”.

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Digital journalism is alive but is digital PR?

Norton's Notes

and the social media bandwagon has rolled out of many towns because most of us are now used to using social media. The media industry has also adapted – albeit slowly – its practices to use it as a credible source/resource to help find leads and qualify stories. This really depresses me because they are not.

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PR in 2015: The Trouble with Authenticity

Mark My Words

Cannes Lions was all about purposeful brands. Take Walter Palmer , the American dentist who shot the wrong Cecil while on safari and was dropped in the lions’ den of social media. What we crave is for brands to take responsibility. They are not ideas that begin with the brand story and how it connects with to an audience.

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Extra Boost of “V”: More Vloggers for your YouTube Cravings

Waxing UnLyrical

Fun Fact Christine vlogged about Kodak’s Print & Prosper calculator, which helps consumers compare printing costs between Kodak printers and their average competitor. He does his best to stay informed on politics, tech, music, cultures, and social media. Great point about personal branding. Questions?

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The Making of Cision: A Brief History of 15 M&A Transactions that Consolidated a Sizable Chunk of the PR Technology Market into One Company

Sword and the Script

Oh, sure, there are bits and pieces, but even the Wikipedia entry , at the time of this writing, is woefully incomplete. It’s hard to believe, the company’s roots can be traced back to those old Bacon’s books printed in Chicago, or even a press clipping service out of Sweden, before that. 2) April 7, 2014: Vocus.

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Is Pay-to-Post Blogging The New Advertorial?

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: jbcurio via Flickr , Creative Commons For the few who don’t know or recall, an “ advertorial is an advertisement written in the form of an objective article, and presented in a printed publication – usually designed to look like a legitimate and independent news story,” according to Wikipedia. At FH, we dont pay for posts.