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How the APR Changed My Future

PRSay

As co-chair of PRSA’s marketing committee for Accreditation in Public Relations, I receive many questions from peers about the credential: How does the APR make you a better communicator? Working for a national telecommunications firm in Atlanta, I lost a seismic bump up the corporate ladder. She earned her credential in 2001.

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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. It immediately generated responses from my newly formed network, and two of those responses led to job offers, with one of these leading to my getting hired for a corporate VP job. Why did you start the JOTW and where did the idea come from?

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Behind the Headlines With Howard Stutz

Cision

Howard Stutz, vice president of corporate communications at Golden Entertainment, says brands’ messages need to be clear and comprehensible. How did you get your start in corporate communications? We have to adapt to the immediacy of the media market. How do you envision the future of the communication industry?

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

Sword and the Script

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). About: Ragan surveyed 315 PR professionals across organizations including corporations, agencies, non-profits and government. How will it change PR and communications?

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PR measurement by valuing intangible assets–brand and reputation

Stuart Bruce

This year’s GIFT report does show that the situation is improving as the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising recommissioned a survey of equity analysts originally undertaken in 2001 to analyse if opinions over the impact of brands has changed and whether intangible assets should be included in annual reports.

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

Sword and the Script

In other words, corporate communications is adding headcount and work that used to go to outside PR firms is being kept inside. It mirrors a trend that’s already underway in PR’s sibling departments in marketing and advertising. You have to keep in mind, big corporations can have hundreds of law firms on what they call a “panel.”

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The Top 10 PR Tech Vendors by Familiarity and Favorability

Sword and the Script

If you are a vendor that was not mentioned, and you have a focus on PR and corporate communications, contact me and I’ll add you to the list here and put you on the list for this survey question next year. . In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms. Arik Hanson]. Image credit: Unsplash.

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