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ICON 2023 Preview: Award-Winning Journalist Michele Norris on Discussing Race and Creating Community

PRSay

I printed up 200 postcards at my local Kinko’s and passed them around on my travels when I kicked off a 35-city book tour. This is useful in stoking conversation and it is also useful in kickstarting almost any kind of writing exercise.

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Would a Mindset Mapping Workshop Help Match Your Company Messaging and Perception?

Stern + Associates

Try this quick exercise. Your local hospital? Of all the companies and brands we know, our perception of them can often be boiled down to a single word. Are we engaged? Indifferent? In a word, how do you feel about: Apple? Your credit card company?

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Brand conversations during COVID-19

Stephen Waddington

Adapting to new markets This is an interesting area in which some organisations have shown strong leadership. Joe Wickes, The Body Coach , runs exercise sessions on YouTube each morning for his two million subscribers. It has published a stunning montage of words and images telling the story of the local region and its people.

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Communicators Can Help Americans Vote in 2020

PRSay

3, Americans will cast their votes for President and for state and local candidates. Communicators have “a lot of great partners out there” who can help provide their employees with local voting information, said panelist Kelly Mason, director of corporate communications at Levi Strauss & Co.,

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The journey from lockdown

Stephen Waddington

In the UK a three day simulation exercise called Exercise Cygnus took place in 2016 to consider the potential impact of a pandemic influenza outbreak. Adapting This is an interesting area in which some organisations have shown strong leadership. Here the role of practitioners is supporting organisations entering new markets.

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What the Uvalde Shootings and Other Crises Reveal about Press Conferences

PRSay

DPS held the follow-up press conference where the director characterized the local police’s action as the “wrong” decision. The local District Attorney, Christina Busbee, issued a statement that they wouldn’t be issuing statements. They have purview over the State Police and Texas Rangers and began the investigation.

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#InspireInclusion Is Nice and All, but What Does It Even Mean?

The Hoffman Agency

It becomes a tick-box exercise. to enter leadership roles. Localization is key. So while, in principle, businesses are happy to localize inclusivity efforts to cater to market nuances, employees are essentially left to mobilize and fend for themselves. Which is perhaps why, even in the U.S.,