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Remembering how 9/11 Changed the World – and Communications

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Reflecting on How 9/11 Immediately Impacted Community PR and Communications. 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. 9/11 Memorial Site. 2011 Update.

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Remembering how 9/11 Changed the World – and Communications

wiredPRworks

Reflecting on How 9/11 Immediately Impacted Community PR and Communications. 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. 9/11 Memorial Site. 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

He’s really done wonderful service for the communications field and has built a 6,000-person strong community in the process. Nearly two decades later, Ned and I would team up to survey his subscribers for the annual JOTW Communications survey. Now I have my own company. Those people were the center of a network.

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Meltwater Quietly Goes IPO [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

For the last couple years, I’ve been curating news from the PR technology community into a monthly summary I call the PR Tech Sum. The If my exchange conversion math is right, the company raised about $400 million and had a market capitalization of roughly $1.4 The company serves “28,000 customers” around the world.

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Public Relations and COVID-19: Studies Surface Challenges, Changes and Optimism  

Sword and the Script

How will it change PR and communications? Several surveys offer a glimpse into the collective thinking of the public relations community – and that’s the theme for this week’s Unscripted Marketing Links (UML). For example, I was part of the B2B technology PR community in 2001, and it was decimated when the so-called tech bubble burst.

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Behind the Headlines With Howard Stutz

Cision

In this interview, Howard discusses the challenges facing casino gaming companies, how to deliver an effective message and how to adapt to the immediacy of the media. How did you get your start in corporate communications? What are some of the biggest communication challenges casino gaming companies face?

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Learning From Past Crises to Navigate Post-COVID-19

Reputation Us

But when it comes to crisis communications and reputation management, I believe they can learn plenty from previous crises to navigate us through this pandemic. Today my team and I work to safeguard the reputations of our credit union partners, emphasizing communication strategies for staff, members and community. A: Listen.

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