Stephen Waddington

MAY 19, 2019

There’s lots been written and said this week about mental health and wellbeing for International Mental Health Week. Bold creative and excellent campaigns cannot be delivered by an organisation with a sick culture. Breathing exercises, fresh fruit and yoga aren’t going to help if an organisation has a sick culture.

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The Proactive Report

JUNE 17, 2018

You can’t hire just any intern or freelancer and ask them to produce a piece of 10X content. 1. Do your homework: Find out what is currently available on your topic, what angles have already been covered, and where you can fill a need or write about a new angle. It must be interesting, different, and creative.

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B2C Study Exercises Sports 157

Buzzstream

JUNE 16, 2021

In a serendipitous twist of fate, when I was writing this article, I came across this tweet from Louise Parker , Digital PR Director at @propellernet : Im not saying im massively advocating this because creativity and innovation are great yada yada but I swear the biggest myth is that if your idea has been done before you can’t do it.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 14, 2018

No one wants to write a story few people read, and many people, fortunately, or unfortunately, get their news on social media. For example, Black Hat is an important B2B conference for cybersecurity companies and I observed several reporters supplementing their writing with video interviews taken from a phone and embedded with their stories.

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PR 20/20

JUNE 9, 2020

Next, with a firm grasp on current performance, the team developed a Creative Brief. We used this exercise to define our new messaging—zeroing in on how we wanted to communicate an evolving story through the new website. The template we selected ( Jumbo ) aligned with our design concept and needs for differing types of internal pages.

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Wadds Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2023

We are eager to learn and absorb all we can about and from our new employer, make new friends, meet new people, visit new places, exercise our creative muscles, and demonstrate our talents and skills. We desire to perform our work excellently with plenty of zest and zeal. We are, by calling, relationship builders.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 21, 2018

You need to plan, then write your strategy based on these findings. Internal stakeholders can either fill out a document, or, you can sit down face-to-face and develop the material together. This is a group exercise for an internal team working for a client. So they both got it! How do you get it and finally get there?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 31, 2017

Feeling creative? In routine sessions participants may come unprepared or be reluctant to share, relying on others to do the heavy creative lifting. There’s a very smart exercise to be done when floating an idea internally. Sometimes the process can be daunting but it doesn’t have to be. Do keep up on trends.

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Airlines Exercises Fashion Print 120

Sword and the Script

JULY 24, 2018

That’s a fruitless exercise for all involved, which brings us to the next point. The Aesthetics of Text: Writing Readable Blog Posts. Content marketing in B2B isn’t a benevolent exercise in goodwill. You need creatives to bring flair and polish. This is an exercise that occurs over months and years.

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Content Marketing B2B Marketing Exercises 63

Karen Freberg

DECEMBER 16, 2021

She writes books, produces research, consults, and much more. For example, I did not attend AEJMC for this very reason because for the last few years, instead of being evaluated on merit and the actual work, internal politics came into play. I did make sure to schedule time for exercise and hobbies outside of my work.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 12, 2015

If Twitter’s data does us justice, we’ll all be exercising more, drinking less and losing all of that holiday weight in no time. Even if I am currently up to my ears in pitching or writing a quarterly PR plan, saying that I’m busy will not only turn off the person who asked me but it will also trick my brain into stress mode.

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eBook Creativity Agency Exercises 60

Stephen Waddington

MAY 23, 2018

My thanks to Canadian practitioner Jean Valin for leading this research project and writing the report on behalf of the CIPR #AIinPR panel. A crowdsourced exercise by the #AIinPR panel over the past few months has characterised more than 120 tools. I sought him out to lead this initiative when we set up the panel earlier this year.

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Analysis Technology Tools Exercises 60

Solo PR Pro

MAY 21, 2019

Unstoppable Cultures continues the mission Ginger Hardage began during her time as Senior Vice President of Culture and Communications at Southwest Airlines where she cultivated the airline’s trademark internal and external culture: “We put people first, we treat customers like family, we nurture our culture, and we try to change ahead of the times.”

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MaccaPR

APRIL 12, 2016

Sure these folks can all write. Founder/Creative Director of Fast Horse and former Executive Vice President at Weber Shandwick, Minneapolis. “ Get It in Writing. Influencing the influencers has been proven to effectively drive thoughts, words and actions, from media relations to Word of Mouth to internal communications.

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Travel Exercises Corporate Internal 48

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Every year I read and write about dozens of reports on B2B marketing and PR. The exercise is a useful reflection on what happened over the course of this past year. Consulting firm Burton-Taylor International published a report finding annual spending on PR “media intelligence solutions” grew 14.7% to approximately $5.5

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ZudePR

JUNE 6, 2016

I'm writing a blog post on how the best communicators "go deep" and get stuff done. Sometimes, I feel like it would be so much easier to stop writing my Weekly Marketing Skinnies, but I can't – it's addicting to be in the know :O). Prioritising is important; I can write a to-do list for the day that’s easily more than 50 items long.

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Buzzstream

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

What I wasn’t initially anticipating within the field is the creativity, anticipation and thrill it entails when conceiving campaigns, writing pitches and landing links. However, creative content surrounding your client’s core areas of expertise should be prioritised, in order to attract coverage on the right sectors and publications.

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Digital PR Industry Strategy Film 170

Contently - Strategy

MARCH 15, 2019

Marketers typically think about lobbing their pitch at prospective clients, but the same exercise could help you here. They pick up on brand messaging faster if they can see internal discussions. If, for instance, you’re asking them to write a new version of a piece of content that always works for you, show them the original!

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Company Pitching System Interviews 111

Mindful Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2023

In addition, one of the worlds most successful companies, Amazon, has supposedly warned its employees about the dangers of sharing code and other confidential information with the chatbot for fear it will mimic internal data. Ad Age gave ChatGPT this prompt: “Write a 30-second commercial that brings Jesus to the Super Bowl.

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Ethics Guidelines Fashion Transportation 98

PR 20/20

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The analyst firm says: “Business content, such as shareholder reports, legal documents, market reports, press releases, articles and white papers, are all candidates for automated writing tools.”. Artificial intelligence technologies are advancing rapidly, to the point where the Associated Press now has machines writing full earnings reports.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 28, 2015

But while stories can work magic for corporate communicators, writing a good story isn’t easy. McKee is a creative writing instructor who leads screenwriting workshops for some of the best writers in Hollywood, including Peter Jackson and the writers at Pixar. 3. “ 642 Things to Write About ” by San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.

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Storytelling Resources Writing Corporate 40

Contently - Strategy

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The industry benchmark statistics in the first part of the report came from an internal dataset of 86,270 pieces of content across all industries, measured by Contently’s content marketing platform. Get creative with compliance. Get creative with compliance. Report Methodology. Create social videos and infographics.

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Financial Industry Report Insurance 111

Buzzstream

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Get creative: a recent study from the past six to 12 months could make your study or campaign relevant – the more recent, the better. Yet, if you take statistics from a study by the government, scientists or climate specialists, or one by an international body like the International Energy Agency (IEA), your source is far more credible.

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Pitching Writing Digital PR How To 164

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Whether your primary speaker is internal or external, carve out time for a 30-minute interview. For internal speakers, where a webinar is just one more additional duty, an interview like this can be a helpful creative exercise for them as they develop a presentation. 4) Repurpose high performing promos as a native ad.

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Ethical Voices

OCTOBER 17, 2022

I have an undergrad in creative writing and then a master’s degree from the New School for Social Research in Liberal Studies, where I got a chance to acquaint myself with some of the ethical models that I think we may even encounter today. There were two leaders who really instigated the activity.

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