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Meltwater Quietly Goes IPO [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

However, the exchange posted an announcement and YouTube video , which contained some interesting facts: Jørn Lyseggen founded Meltwater “in shack number 15 on Tjuvholmen, Oslo in 2001.”. It’s “algorithms analyze 500 million documents” and “12 trillion searches every day.”. The company serves “28,000 customers” around the world.

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Information Asymmetry: The Informed Minority Advantage

Doctor Spin

Stiglitz, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001 for analysing markets with asymmetric information. The Mole (TV Series, 2001–2008). A film adaptation of the video game of the same name, which in turn is inspired by the social deduction game Werewolf. This is a crucial concept in economics and game theory.

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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. These may be video messaging or town hall meetings for staff or members. Expose them.

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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.

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A critical review of Excellence Theory in an era of digital communication

Stephen Waddington

Table 1: James Grunig and Todd Hunt’s Four Models of Public Relations (1984) Excellence Theory The so-called Excellence Theory[ii] developed over the next decade as a result of a research programme commissioned by the Research Foundation of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) in 1984.

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The 5Ps of Marketing Artificial Intelligence

PR 20/20

These are the questions we sought to answer in spring 2015 when I launched an internal initiative named Project Copyscale at my content marketing agency, PR 20/20. Production: Creating, curating and optimizing content, including blog posts, emails, landing pages, video and advertisements. Prescribe marketing strategies and tactics.

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

Masters in Communications

Therefore podcasts (a form of radio), eBooks (a form of print media), and video platforms (a digital form of small screen broadcasting) are considered part of this new medium. 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.

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