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Big Business Must Help Us Heal

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

There’s just not much that brings us together these days. The past five years have seen an erosion of confidence in our major institutions – government, faith groups, and media, among others. It’s time for the business community as a group and individual businesses as brands, to help us heal the divide.

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7 Rules for a New Era of Communications

PRSay

During the pandemic, economic crisis, racial tensions and partisan arguments that have marked 2020, we have started communicating differently. James Grunig and Todd Hunt’s “excellence theory” has long told us that, in public relations, listening is as important as speaking. We even write emails with more thought.

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Information Asymmetry: The Informed Minority Advantage

Doctor Spin

How are these popular games related to the psychology of informed minorities and uniformed majorities? Students, usually bogged down by theory and textbooks, were now detectives and strategists, reading body language, analysing speech patterns, and forming alliances. This is a crucial concept in economics and game theory.

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Conference Recap: Secretary Robert B. Reich on the Radical Act of Listening

PRSay

During his General Session speech at the 2018 PRSA International Conference , Reich reminded the audience of professional communicators that while the truth itself is iron-clad, perception and experiences vary based on the person and the background. We are not communicating across boundaries,” he said. . Unpacking our anger.

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ICON Recap: Laurie Garrett on Disinformation Around COVID-19

PRSay

During her nearly 60-minute presentation, she provided a detailed timeline of how misinformation and disinformation spread nearly as quickly as the virus, citing issues with social media, medical officials and elected leaders. Communications challenges ahead. -based journalist to cover COVID-19 in America.

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WaddsCon: February wrap-up, March topics and speakers

Stephen Waddington

It started as these things often do as a discussion on social media. Four inspiring speakers led conversations on race, talent, PR dashboards and the dark side of social media. You’d be welcome to join us. Use your Yammer, Slack etc to post internally and express how you feel and offer solutions and suggestions.

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When A Privacy Breach Is A PR Crisis: How To Avoid It

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

For most of us, it would be awkward at the very least, but for a public figure or corporation, disclosure of private communications amounts to a full-blown public relations crisis. Experts tend to divide negative events into two groups. Have a digital media policy.

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