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6 Pro Tips to Create Bigger Buzz for Your Business

Cision

Once Shea developed his production process, he went back to his online communities to get the word out: “The backpacking, fishing, outdoors community has a very active and robust online community of blogs, forums, and review sites. We went to those online communities and announced our product and drummed up interest.

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Our Industry, Your Answers: Breaking Down the 2018 JOTW Communications Survey

Waxing UnLyrical

The role of communicators – whether it implicitly states it in our job descriptions or not – is to keep on top of societal and industry trends so we can ensure our organizations keep pace with or stay ahead of the competition. The newsletter is available online at www.nedsjotw.com. Image: Jason Rosewell via Unsplash. Creative Commons CC0.

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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

My friend, Lou Hoffman calls it the “F word” in storytelling – failure. This is PR at its finest – relations with a public community. In other words, well-executed content marketing helps you develop an additional platform to communicate with reporters. A voice of reason implies transparency and candor.

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Corporate Communications is Taking More PR Work In-House, finds Survey; Media Relations Gets Even Harder

Sword and the Script

Ned launched “ Job of the Week ” (JOTW) email newsletter in 2001 as a free resource for PR and communications professionals looking for work. 1) Storytelling, analytics and thought leadership are the top PR tactics and trends. 2) The top PR metrics and performance measures communications pros track.

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New Survey Identifies the Hottest Trends in Corp Comm and PR; Announcing the 2018 JOTW Communications Survey

Sword and the Script

A new survey of primarily corporate communications professionals identified the hottest trends and tactics in PR – and perhaps those that aren’t so hot too. Respondents said storytelling, content marketing and thought leadership will be more important over the next 12 months. The 2018 JOTW Communications Survey from Frank Strong.

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Masters in Marketing Interview: Paul Furiga, WordWrite Communications

Mindful Marketing

Paul Furiga is chief storyteller, founder and CEO of WordWrite Communications. Paul is active in the community, serving as vice chair of the River City Brass, on the boards of Fragasso Financial Advisors, The Rivers Club and the IABC Pittsburgh Chapter. To us, storytelling is the fundamental essence of how people communicate.

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The Essential Guide to Mass Communication: History, Methods, Ethics, and the Future

Masters in Communications

If not religious in nature, then it could be a written form of word-of-mouth storytelling as many early pictorial depictions tended to be. On September 11 th , 2001, a British MP said "this is a good day to bury bad news" as the world focused on the 9/11 attacks. There are potentially sinister reasons for doing this.

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