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In Memoriam: Ralph Kam, APR, Fellow PRSA

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Kam worked for decades in Hawaii’s PR profession, including government, health care, financial services and education roles. As an instructor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii Pacific University, Cha­mi­nade University, and the University of Phoenix, he helped form the professional foundations of many communicators.

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How the APR Changed My Future

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Its simple architecture broke down complex communications problems, showing the art and the science of communications challenges and how they could be solved for clients’ business needs. It made our clients’ work easier, better and even financially safer — building loyal customers and repeat business. People noticed us.

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Meltwater Quietly Goes IPO [PR Tech Sum]

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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. Going public gives us access to its historical financials, which I’ve long wondered about. Welcome to 2021! billion on its second day of trading. The stock price at debut was approximately $5.30.

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Learning From Past Crises to Navigate Post-COVID-19

Reputation Us

My recent crisis experiences include the 1992 riots in Los Angeles, when I was working at an NPR station in Southern California, and the 9-11 attacks in 2001, when I was representing the airline industry with public relations firm Webber Shandwick. Q: How frequently should I be communicating about the crisis? A: Listen.

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Behind the Headlines With Howard Stutz

Cision

How did you get your start in corporate communications? I oversaw corporate communications for Anchor Gaming – a publicly traded slot machine developer – before the company was sold to International Game Technology in 2001. million jobs and is an economic contributor in states and communities through taxes.

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The Top 10 PR Tech Vendors by Familiarity and Favorability

Sword and the Script

The coverage of PR technology in most trade publications serving the PR community is quite is slim. While they did and still do cover some financial transactions, there just wasn’t a whole lot of appetite for product announcements among the media when I was in that role. Financial transactions such as a round of funding or M&A.

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In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms

Sword and the Script

The legal community, and more specifically the in-house effect on law firms bear insight. The housing crisis of 2008 spurred largely by risky loans and securitized mortgages, that both diversified the financial risk and cause us to collectively lose sight of where it was precisely, set off the most severe recession we’ve seen in a long time.

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