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Remembering how 9/11 Changed the World – and Communications

wiredPRworks

On September 9, 2001, we celebrated a child’s birthday party. On September 11, 2001, I got up and went through the usual motions of a working mother with three children – ages 12, 9, and 7 – to get off to school. I did get to photograph the cover of the school district’s 2001 annual report. 2011 Update.

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Survey: Most PR Pros Say that Media Relations is Getting Harder – Here’s What You Can Do About It

Deirdre Breakenridge

A high profile blog was “tipped off” to the feigned outrage and the rest of the media then picked up on it and duly reported the incident as controversy. 3) Augment media relations with content marketing. I took that pitch, transformed it into a blog post which in turn, took off once it was published.

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Remembering how 9/11 Changed the World – and Communications

wiredPRworks

On September 9, 2001, we celebrated a child’s birthday party. On September 11, 2001, I got up and went through the usual motions of a working mother with three children – ages 12, 9, and 7 – to get off to school. I did get to photograph the cover of the school district’s 2001 annual report. 2011 Update.

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Selfish Altruism: Ned Lundquist on Origins of the JOTW and an Appeal to Take the Annual Comms Survey

Sword and the Script

Ned: I started JOTW when I found myself rather suddenly out of work in January of 2001. When I started my new job in April 2001 the network had grown to about 150 people. That job only lasted for six months, but when I was back in the job market my network had grown to more than 700. Those people were the center of a network.

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Information Asymmetry: The Informed Minority Advantage

Doctor Spin

Stiglitz, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001 for analysing markets with asymmetric information. Source: Industrial Marketing Management 4 Tong, P., & Crosno, J. Industrial Marketing Management, 56, 167–180. The Mole (TV Series, 2001–2008). Doctor Spin | The PR Blog. Doctor Spin | The PR Blog.

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Meltwater Quietly Goes IPO [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

The If my exchange conversion math is right, the company raised about $400 million and had a market capitalization of roughly $1.4 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.”. He joins from C3.ai

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The Sword of Certainty: Information is Power

Doctor Spin

Doctor Spin | The PR Blog. Stiglitz, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001 for analysing markets with asymmetric information. Source: Industrial Marketing Management 4 Tong, P., & Crosno, J. Industrial Marketing Management, 56, 167–180. Doctor Spin | The PR Blog. 1 Silfwer, J. 2013, May 3).