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

Sword and the Script

Public relations has wrestled with messaging during the COVID-19 pandemic, but studies also show it has improved business collaboration and internal communications The events of 9/11 changed air travel. 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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2021 Solo PR Pro Premium Member Accomplishments

Solo PR Pro

When she started her business in the summer of 2001, she was pregnant, had just been laid off following the dot-com crash, and had no idea what the future would hold. Lynn also won an award from the PRSA San Francisco Bay Area Chapter for Standout Tactic of the Year – Believe in Banking: Platform with a Purpose” on behalf of Adrenaline.

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Notified by Intrado is a Promising PR Software Tool that Supports 5 Central Duties in Public Relations [PR Tech Briefing]

Sword and the Script

Listen is where you establish searches and monitor media, including social media; Connect is the media contacts database – with an interesting twist; Publish allows you to publish releases, blogs and send pitches; Amplify allows you to showcase user generated content – like social media posts; and.

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Maxim Behar: Novinite.com is a One-of-a-kind Media Phenomenon

Maxim Behar

12.03.2021 The Novinite.com’s founding father, Maxim Behar, about the start, freedom of the press and novelties in PR business… The first English-language media in Bulgaria Novinite.com turns 20 tomorrow. What are your memories of March 12, 2001, your launch day? At that, they will fully move to the social media.

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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. This goes for social media as well. Expose them.

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The art of smart thinking in public relations

PR Conversations

When I ask my CIPR internal comms certificate groups who has a comms strategy or who has SMART objectives – why do so few hands go up? (To I have a copy of a research and evaluation toolkit produced by PRCA, IPR (as was) and PR Week from 1999 (and updated versions from 2001 and 2003). Can we do that?

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Paying for the destruction of public relations

PR Conversations

In 2001, a British installation artist, Michael Landy, won a commission for his work, Break Down, that involved the destruction of all his possessions as a reaction to the consumerist society. That’s the output of over 2,500 leaders from business, government, international organizations, civil society, academia, media and the arts.