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2021 Solo PR Pro Premium Member Accomplishments

Solo PR Pro

The agency beat Atrium Health and another smaller comms firm to take top honors in the category for their work on a three-month campaign for Pat's Place Child Advocacy Center. It was featured on CNET, among other media outlets, as one of the top 22 films to stream on Amazon Prime. Phyllis Weiss of Weiss Communications, Inc.

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Meltwater Quietly Goes IPO [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

However, the exchange posted an announcement and YouTube video , which contained some interesting facts: Jørn Lyseggen founded Meltwater “in shack number 15 on Tjuvholmen, Oslo in 2001.”. These include a media database, online and broadcast monitoring, and “PitchPrefer” a feature that analyzes pitching preferences with AI.

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Don’t Let Breaking News Steal Your PR Thunder

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

When PR agency professionals plan a product launch or news announcement, we do it with close attention to detail. I seem to recall a major client press event scheduled on October 1, 2001 at the World Trade Center, but even weeks later it was a sad footnote to the larger crisis.). It generated some fun and unexpected media coverage.

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The Top 10 PR Tech Vendors by Familiarity and Favorability

Sword and the Script

Communications professions placed press releases near the bottom of a long list of priorities for the next 12 months, according to the 2019 JOTW Communications Survey , a collaborative effort between Ned’s Job-of-the-Week and Sword and the Script Media. In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms.

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3 former PR pros who made mid-career shifts and lived to talk about it

Communications Conversations

“I’m done with agency life. You could replace “agency life” with “corporate life” and insert a whole other sub-set of people, too. Kelly Groehler, Tim Westermeyer and Betsy Andersen all traded in their corporate and agency PR careers for work in another field. But, these three people did.

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Entertainment & Sports Section New Member Spotlight

PRSay

I was able to jump in there with the media relations and publication relations teams at a time the country was on fire with Olympic pride and the Olympic movement was more popular than ever. And it’s only been 15 years since our new owners purchased the organization in 2001, and that’s when it really turned the corner.

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My Segway Ride

Flatiron Communications

Basically, an obscure mention in a book proposal about a miraculous invention called simply “IT” led to an unimaginable media frenzy at a time when Facebook, Twitter and Instagram could not be counted on to fuel such a viral buzz. This very well could have marked the epochal start of the tech media echo chamber.).