Stephen Waddington

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Facebook pages and groups are replacing local media according to research from Braintree, Essex. By Dan Slee If there’s one thing I can tell you it’s that Facebook groups and pages in a local area are huge. Exploring a community In September last year I set about counting the Facebook groups and pages in Braintree. A lot huge.

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Stephen Waddington

AUGUST 31, 2020

It’ll be the first time since March that many communication practitioners have been able to work without the competing demands of childcare or home schooling. Helping organisations operate alongside the virus We’ve become the front line of an organisation’s communication response to the COVID-19 crisis.

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PRSay

MAY 26, 2020

As hospitals and health care services gradually reopen in the coming weeks and months, communications and PR professionals will be helping patients, caregivers and staff adjust to the new normal after COVID-19. For communicators, the challenge is to help people feel comfortable about returning to their doctors and hospital services.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

I recently spent a year interviewing senior public relations professionals in 31 countries about best practices in their cultures for my newly-published book, Pitch, Tweet, or Engage on the Street: How to Practice Global Public Relations and Strategic Communication. Make friends with local influencers. Invest in relationships.

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PRSay

AUGUST 16, 2022

There are countless ways to give and motivate others to do so for the betterment of the communities where we live, work and play. Inspired by the outcome of the initial virtual 5K, I volunteered with community members to launch the #WeAreWeston 5K in support of our local food bank. Our neighbors collectively donated $2,000.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 1, 2021

15 — is a reminder that, to engage with Hispanic audiences, communications professionals must first obtain authentic, firsthand knowledge about their cultures. We asked national and international communicators for their advice on how communications campaigns can resonate with the Hispanic community.

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PRSay

MARCH 22, 2023

In the communications profession, they are now several years into their careers and earning supervisor, manager and leadership roles at agencies, corporations, brands and organizations of all sizes. We need to cultivate communities and have real conversations. In 2023, the oldest Gen Zers will turn 26 years old.

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5W PR

AUGUST 12, 2019

Once you answer that question and put together a plan to actively promote and preserve your corporate reputation, the chances are that any damage occurring from such an incident will be minimal rather than catastrophic. Building A Corporate Reputation. Let’s use a local electric utility as an example. Look at your advertising.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 20, 2020

Most have learned from early mistakes or half-measures and have designed campaigns that make a positive impact for employees, customers, and communities. Facebook, meanwhile is dramatically expanding its Community Help feature to address the pandemic. It’s not about the logo.

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PRSay

MARCH 21, 2023

In the communications profession, they are now several years into their careers and earning supervisor, manager and leadership roles at agencies, corporations, brands and organizations of all sizes. We need to cultivate communities and have real conversations. In 2023, the oldest Gen Zers will turn 26 years old.

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How To Employee Leadership Nonprofit 139

Shift Communications

JUNE 28, 2022

How does it relate to the business, employees, clients, or community? For example, offer training, volunteer time or funds to local organizations, raise awareness by sharing resources, create space and amplify voices from underrepresented communities. Does the best path to action start in the public conversation?

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Landis PR

APRIL 29, 2024

According to the people of Finland, communications is the world’s most powerful tool for change. For us, communications is the world’s most powerful tool for change. It is not advisable to have an employee of a communications firm present in the interview situation. This applies to the media also.

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Landis PR

OCTOBER 31, 2022

RECAP: We recently announced that San Francisco Business Times included Landis in its Top 100 businesses in the Bay Area Corporate Philanthropy list. In 2020, we celebrated Landis’s 30 th anniversary by donating $300 to nonprofits that are part of our team’s communities and support causes close to their hearts.

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PRSay

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

PoliteMail was a proud sponsor of Connect 19 — the PRSA Employee Communications Section’s annual conference. Fortunately, your corporate communications team can kindle that love. So, how do you incorporate internal communications into your brand marketing strategy? And this makes a significant impact.

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PRSay

JUNE 15, 2021

For corporate communicators, Pride in 2021 can seem confusing and challenging. If the past year has taught you anything, then it should be that the price of admission to the LGBTQ ally community is now much higher. Seek communications help. Engaging LGBTQ communications professionals with experience is best.

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Reputation Us

MAY 1, 2019

But recently, the importance of corporations working with nonprofits has been proven to successfully enhance a company’s reputation. Nonprofits that work to leverage this information can help support their own organization—and strengthen the reputation of their corporate partners, thus creating a win-win partnership.

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Stephen Waddington

JULY 16, 2021

The COVID-19 Communications Advisory Panel report sets out critical skills for practitioners as society learns to live with COVID-19. I worked as part of a team of professional marketing and communications associations on behalf of the Government Communication Service at the outset of the crisis.

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Landis PR

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Note: This is a reposted blog by our Public Relations Global Network Partner, Chip Taylor, Novitas Communications. Photo courtesy of Pixabay At the intersection of public relations and public policy is an opportunity for communication professionals to exert considerable influence. For the original blog, please visit here.

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PRSay

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Nearly a decade ago, the PRSA Foundation sponsored research that found only 23 percent of graduate business schools consistently provide instruction in reputation management, corporate communications and related ethical dimensions. And nine out of 10 acknowledged more training in core communications disciplines is merited.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 5, 2018

There have been plenty of “check presentation and handshake photo opportunity” moments with nonprofit organization and corporate leaders publicized, but then we don’t see anything develop either before or after that standalone Kodak moment. To encourage social responsibility, create a culture of giving back to the larger community.

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PRSay

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

I cried not only for the victims, not only for their families, not only for my son who would have to re-live this someday when he reads about it in a history book, but also for my friends and colleagues who had the daunting task of communicating such heart-wrenching news to a variety of publics. I visited the memorials. I donated money.

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Community Local Government Television 60

PRSay

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

I cried not only for the victims, not only for their families, not only for my son who would have to re-live this someday when he reads about it in a history book, but also for my friends and colleagues who had the daunting task of communicating such heart-wrenching news to a variety of publics. I visited the memorials. I donated money.

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Community Local Government Television 60

PRSay

AUGUST 13, 2020

Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, where I now live, and contributed my professional skills to local chapters of Indivisible and Black Lives Matter. Companies saw the power of these activist groups and began hiring specialists who could use the same tools and strategies to protect corporate interests. Looking to the past.

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Melissa Agnes

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Captain Chris Hsiung and Katie Nelson, of Mountain View Police Department, join The Invincible Brand Podcast to discuss how they quickly overcame an escalating viral crisis in a way that increased the trust their community and the general public have in their brand. About this episode. Behind the scenes decisions and discussions.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The operating system of the past was localized, the operating system of the present is centralized and the operating system of the future is decentralized.”. Decentralizing technologies represent an evolution in thought,” she said during a conversation hosted by Brandi Boatner, manager, digital and advocacy communications, IBM.

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wiredPRworks

JUNE 25, 2016

Global presenters shared incredibly powerful ideas with Social Media Club Chicago's community. Global Social Media for Local Social Good. Social Media Club [SMC] is a worldwide organization, with local chapters, that serves as connecting organization for anyone interested in social media. Social Media Club Chicago.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Recently, PR teams have been pressed into crisis duty in a series of corporate missteps that have something in common: marketing or advertising departments that shows a type of “cultural appropriation” – borrowing a sensitive ethnic or cultural theme for commercial purposes. Jack in the Box’s #MeToo Misstep.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 23, 2022

More communications pros say their organization trusts the media than do not. We continue to benefit from responsible reporting by our local newspaper.”. Frankly, over the last few years, we have noticed the bias/slant in reporting has increased and the quality of reporting has gone down as turnover in local outlets has increased.”.

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Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 13, 2015

When it comes to corporate volunteerism and social media, isn’t this what we normally see from brands? Posts like these are all too common when it comes to corporate volunteerism and social media for big brands. One of my favorite local Instagram campaigns is #onlyinmn. Good story. Great, model employee. All good things.

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PRSay

JANUARY 8, 2019

Whether you serve a large corporation, small nonprofit, major research university or municipal government, at some point your boss has probably said, “We need more media attention. Having worked in communications for a top-tier university, a regional nonprofit foundation and as a consultant, I’ve heard this question myself. If so, how?

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PR Conversations

JANUARY 29, 2015

His career also involved posts as former assistant to the president and public relations member of the Policy Committee at Ford Motor Company, and he was one of the creators and first director of The Dayton Plan of community and employee relations originated in the Dayton Divisions of General Motors Corporation.

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PR Conversations

JANUARY 29, 2015

His career also involved posts as former assistant to the president and public relations member of the Policy Committee at Ford Motor Company, and he was one of the creators and first director of The Dayton Plan of community and employee relations originated in the Dayton Divisions of General Motors Corporation.

Community 40

Community Employee Local Groups 40

Communications Conversations

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

You had a vibrant and long career in PR, working in almost every possible setting–from corporate to agency to non-profit. But I also liked being more of a communication generalist inside organizations, managing everything from events to publications—even sales collateral. I was a solo corporate comm. Do you ever regret it?

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PRSay

OCTOBER 20, 2020

For me, I wanted to expand both my professional community and level up on professional development. I looked to opportunities with the Corporate Communications Section, the Diversity & Inclusion Committee and Chapters to do both in different ways.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When done well, social marketing programs can showcase corporate values, demonstrate commitment to community, and engage consumers, while providing needed resources for a group or cause. Our local partners knew the “lay of the land” and were cooperative on every level. Do commit for the “long haul.”

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Local Corporate Groups Ethics 120

Landis PR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Until recently, the execution of these strategies has not been a top priority for many corporate event clients. The common thread in an effective sustainability plan for events is communication. The shift really seemed to happen on the other side of the pandemic. Do Sustainable Events Cost More?

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PR Conversations

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Effectiveness in PR/communications practice usually involves thinking about evaluation and measurement metrics. Undoubtedly the pressures and volatility of working in PR/communications ( as I discussed recently with Nigel Sarbutts ) contribute towards feelings of losing control and being unhappy at work.

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