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How to Improve Your LinkedIn Profile [Infographic]
Solo PR Pro
MAY 31, 2016
LinkedIn launched in 2003 with 4500 members. Today, the site has more than 433 million members and is the world’s largest professional network on the internet.
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Email Newsletter Subscribers or Blog Subscribers: Which is Better?
Polaris
DECEMBER 10, 2014
Back in 2003, I started HEADLINES and maintained it for 2 years. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram—these popular social media platforms all pale in comparison to the power of email and an email newsletter.
The Secret to Online Copywriting? Make it Look Like a Kid’s Book
Polaris
JULY 18, 2014
Wiebe, who is based in Victoria, British Columbia, has been writing, editing and proofreading online and offline copy since 2003. This September marks the 3rd anniversary of my blog. While I’m typically pretty hard on myself, even I have to admit it’s improved dramatically over the years.
SHIFT Communications: 12 Years and Counting
Shift Communications
APRIL 10, 2015
Back in 2003, the Agency’s first concern was whether – and how – the 30-odd people who had survived the wreckage of our predecessor firm might make a go of it under our new banner. This week we celebrate the 12 th anniversary of the founding of SHIFT Communications. And what a ride it’s been!
Has the Digital Age Affected the Impartiality of the Press?
Cision
JULY 2, 2015
We live in an age where, according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt , “Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.”
Stories: Better than Cuddling?
PRSay
DECEMBER 15, 2016
That’s according to a 2003 study by University of Oregon professors Judith Hibbard and Ellen Peters. Give readers a shot of the love drug, oxytocin.
8 Questions with Syracuse University’s Sports Legend, Michael Veley
Critical Mention
APRIL 26, 2017
Clearly winning the 2003 Men’s Basketball National Championship will always be at the top of the mountain. By Robin Gelfenbien. To say Michael Veley embodies sports is an understatement. His groundbreaking work for Syracuse University’s (Go Orange!) athletic department and the David L.
Are we ever going to have a northern PR powerhouse?
Norton's Notes
NOVEMBER 23, 2015
I moved back from West London in late 2003, I had a good time down there, and the truth is I went there to better my career – I mapped my own career out. With George Osborne’s latest budget announcement expected on Wednesday, there are a lot of rumours flying around, one of which will be a reduction or removal of Entrepreneur’s Relief, and there has been a lot of rhetoric about the Government’s Northern Powerhouse initiative.
5 Ways For You To Excel In Marketing/PR Today
ISEBOX
APRIL 13, 2016
Whitepapers (and their language types) are so 2003. I don’t know about you, but my day moves so incredibly fast that sometimes I don’t know whether. I’m coming or going.
What should Brian Williams do to manage his crisis?
PR Daily
FEBRUARY 6, 2015
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams is now enveloped in a career-threatening controversy after admitting Wednesday he was not aboard a helicopter that was hit by enemy fire in Iraq in 2003.
3 branding lessons from Lego
PR Daily
SEPTEMBER 11, 2015
In 2003, sales dropped globally by 29 percent. Today, seven Lego sets are sold every second, but 10 years ago, Lego was in pieces. The family-owned company had been heading closer to bankruptcy since 1999. By January 2004, Lego announced a huge deficit, saying it was losing one million dollars a day. The problem went much deeper than the balance sheet. Lego had forgotten its roots. Its products were moving further and further away from what people loved about the brand.
5 questions to ask about color in your messages
PR Daily
DECEMBER 8, 2015
In his 2003 book "United We Brand," Mike Moser argues that simple colors, such as the eight colors used in the original box of Crayola crayons, convey brands that are “aggressive, loud, or dynamic."
How PR pros can fight the perception that they’re ‘smart, friendly liars’
PR Daily
JANUARY 19, 2015
They based their findings on the results of two surveys: one conducted in 2003 by Callison, and the other in 2012 by Merle, now an assistant professor at Florida State University. Spin doctor, heal thyself.
NBC stops short of firing Brian Williams
PR Daily
FEBRUARY 11, 2015
In a memo to employees , NBC News President Deborah Turness wrote: While on ‘Nightly News’ on Friday, January 30, 2015, Brian misrepresented events which occurred while he was covering the Iraq War in 2003. Tuesday was a big night for news about news.
PR lessons from NBA superstar LeBron James
PR Daily
MAY 29, 2017
James has earned about $600 million since 2003. If you want to be better at PR, study LeBron James. James has become so much more than a sports superstar. His website speaks to this: The top menu tabs feature “The Man,” “The Philanthropist,” “The Businessman” and “The Athlete.”.
Visual Storytelling Secrets: Think Like @Ekaterina
Social PR Chat
MARCH 10, 2016
According to Ekaterina, Google says that every 48 hours we are now cranking out the same amount of information from the beginning of time until 2003! Social PR Chat caught up with the queen bee of visual storytelling: Ekaterina Walter!
Not sorry to see you go – career churn and public relations
PR Conversations
MAY 24, 2016
In 2003, a British study jointly funded by (then) Institute of Public Relations and the Department of Trade and Industry noted “a cultural expectation that PR practitioners move jobs every 2-3 years”.
Theranos and the media: a cautionary tale for PR
Media Bullseye
AUGUST 15, 2016
When she dropped out of Stanford in 2003 at the age of 19, Holmes started Theranos, a Silicon Valley company that was developing technology that would allow hundreds of different blood tests to be run using a simple finger prick of blood, rather than a needle.
Conducting historical interviews in a transparent age
PR Conversations
JULY 8, 2016
A methodology involving contemporary techniques means the researcher needs to reflect on their role as a “a willing participant in a dialogical process” of research (Jones 2003 p.60). 2003) The turn to a narrative knowing of persons: One method explored.
4 nonprofit PR lessons from Movember
PR Daily
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
When it began in 2003, Movember focused on prostate cancer, but participants and advocates have raised more than $526 million toward diabetes, testicular cancer, prostate cancer and mental health initiatives.
Are we seeing the slow painful death of Google Alerts?
Norton's Notes
APRIL 23, 2015
In 2003, when Google introduced its alert system, the PR world (well us more geeky PR types) celebrated with delight as we believed we would no longer have to continuously check search engines for news and wait for the nasty photocopies to come through the post three weeks after the campaign.
PR Rock Stars: 3M’s Heather Cmiel
Communications Conversations
MARCH 14, 2017
I have been involved since the first day I joined in 2003 – 14 years ago (I am starting to realize I am old). I can’t really remember the first time I met Heather Cmiel. Which is kinda odd. Because Heather isn’t the kind of person you forget.
3 reasons why PR is everything in brand management
PR Daily
AUGUST 26, 2015
It's now been five years since Google's Eric Schmidt observed , " Every two days we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.” Boards of directors, top-level executives and brand managers, take heed: If you don't yet have a PR counselor in a position of power within your organization, you're playing Russian roulette with your brand's reputation. PR can no longer be relegated to traditional media relations. It has never been just that.
Media Relations: Proven Ways to Get More Out of It
Sword and the Script
APRIL 19, 2016
However, Mother Nature had other plans on that fateful morning in 2003. That’s just the way it was in 2003. My little Toyota Corolla didn’t quite roll to the intersection. It sputtered and jerked and slid. I had to make this interview.
Influencer Insights: Media Moves and Intel for May 31
Beyond PR
MAY 31, 2016
She joined the Editorial Board in 2003 and has been penning her opinions in a column since then. Amy was the founding editor-in-chief of Conde Naste’s Teen Vogue since its beginning in 2003.
Highlights from the State of Blogging in 2017 Survey
Sword and the Script
JANUARY 10, 2017
It was interesting to see that a relatively new player like Squarespace ranked second while Blogger, which was acquired by Google in 2003, for a rumored $20 million trails further behind. It’s easy to believe there are a million marketing blogs but that’s just not true.
Celebrating SHIFT’s Independence: Jim Joyal, Agency Partner
Shift Communications
JULY 3, 2015
In honor of Independence Day, we sat down with SHIFT Partner, Jim Joyal , to get his thoughts on SHIFT as an independent PR agency and what that has meant for the Agency since he helped found it in 2003. After being founded in 2003, SHIFT remains an independent agency.
Best Practice Guide for MPs Using Twitter for Open Up! – Speaker’s Commission on Digital Democracy
Stuart Bruce
JANUARY 26, 2015
In 2003 I was one of the first politicians in the UK to blog – the first councillor , but beaten by then Liberal Democrat MP Richard Allan (now European director of policy for Facebook) and Labour MP Tom Watson. Open Up!
My Oscar Moment: the 2015 Matrix Awards
Waxing UnLyrical
MAY 15, 2015
I first encountered Katie back in 2003, when she graciously taught a half-day workshop on PR measurement for a San Francisco-area PR club I was involved with. This past Wednesday I received what is possibly the greatest honor of my career to date: the Association of Women in Communication, D.C. Chapter, presented me with the 2015 Matrix Award. I learned of this a few months ago, and I was absolutely blown away.
Citibank promises it ended practices that led to fine
PR Daily
JULY 22, 2015
If you had a Citibank credit card between 2003 and 2012, the company may owe you some reparations. That’s because it engaged in some shady business practices, resulting in Citibank owing $700 million to 8.8 million customers, plus another $70 million in fines.
12 News Release Alternatives
Bad Pitch Blog
MARCH 22, 2010
The Vatican began doing this in 2003. If you keep trying the same thing, expecting different results, you''re nuts. So here are some alternatives to the much loved, abused and murdered news release.
Experts be damned: on post-factual communication
Mark My Words
JULY 8, 2016
It is one thing for Blair to ask us to sympathise with the complexity of decision making leading up to the 2003 invasion; but it’s quite another to suggest he’d do it again even with the facts. ‘Post-factual’ is a phrase we’ve been hearing a lot of lately. Once upon a time you would have been discredited for calling the Bank of England corrupt.
Walgreens severs Theranos partnership
PR Daily
JUNE 13, 2016
Theranos’ chief executive, Elizabeth Holmes , founded the company in 2003. Walgreens is the latest company to formally cut ties with embattled lab-services company Theranos.
Why The Pumpkin Spice Latte Is Marketing Genius
The Stalwart Blog
OCTOBER 27, 2015
The new flavor has aided the sale of more than 200 million pumpkin spice lattes since 2003. Labor Day marks the end of summer, but the pumpkin spice latte marks the official start of the fall season. Changing leaves and crisp autumn breeze is topped with whipped cream and pumpkin pie spice.
How to Help a Tiny Torah Scroll Kickstart An Article of Hope
Waxing UnLyrical
MAY 16, 2012
The shuttle disintegrating over Texas, on February 1, 2003 , literally minutes before it was scheduled to conclude its 28th mission, killing all seven crew members on board? What could a group of astronauts and the Holocaust possibly have in common? More than you think.
12 amazing quotes from graduation speeches
PR Daily
MAY 20, 2016
Michael Dell to the University of Texas in 2003. A different version of this story first appeared on PR Daily in May, 2014. Graduation season is nearly here.
Nine Baby Steps Toward Creating a Family-Friendly Firm
Flack Me
JUNE 25, 2017
Category: Flack Me Summary: In 2003 I had my first child—and I also had the all-too-common experience of learning that my workplace didn’t have a maternity policy. My boss “generously” offered me 12 weeks of unpaid leave; I could afford to take three. Upon my too quick return to work, I tried pumping in a bathroom stall, which was inconvenient and embarrassing
Influencer Insights: Media Moves and Intel for April 11
Beyond PR
APRIL 11, 2016
The Millions was created in 2003 and is an online site that reviews and writes about books, the arts and culture.
Twitter users remember Harper Lee and her powerful words
PR Daily
FEBRUARY 19, 2016
The book was made into a 1962 movie featuring Robert Duvall as Boo Radley and starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch—named the Greatest Film Hero of All Time by the American Film Institute in 2003. “I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.” — Harper Lee.
Marketing lessons from 90s ad campaigns
PR Daily
APRIL 19, 2016
In 2003, they lost $42 million in a lawsuit brought by the men who created the mascot, but were never paid for their work. As a TV-obsessed child of the 90s, my earliest interest in marketing and advertising came from the commercials that would interrupt the hours of shows I was glued to.
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