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How Agencies and In-House Teams Bring Out the Best in Each Other

Cision

There’s a new trend in the creative world — more companies are building their own in-house teams for a range of creative work that used to be assigned to external agencies. There’s also less of a learning curve involved in working with internal team members. In the early years at AOL, we mostly did everything ourselves.

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Exploring Best Practices in Global Communications

PRSay

The Air China flight descended through the smog and I saw Beijing for the first time in 2003. My qualifications were that I knew the German/Mercedes and American/Chrysler sides of what was the world’s largest merged company. Let’s bring full-service expertise of the business to our internal clients. We’re diplomats.

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Props Can Help a Message Sink In, or Sink the Message

PRSay

26, two days before he became Twitter’s new owner and CEO, Elon Musk demonstrated the communications power of a good prop when he strode into the company’s headquarters carrying a porcelain sink and wearing a grin. The prop suggested Musk would remake the company, throwing everything at it, including the kitchen sink.

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A Guide to Pride Without Pandering

PRSay

If you’re a company interested in authentically engaging in Pride this year, then read on. It’s not your LGBTQ employees’ job to be the sole voice representing your company, and not all LGBTQ employees are able or interested in speaking out for you. Seek communications help. Know when to speak up and when not to. So do both.).

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Wuhan coronavirus: Trends and considerations for communicating during public health threats

Shift Communications

A version of this post originally appeared on the NATIONAL Public Relations blog , an AVENIR GLOBAL company. . With the first cases of the Wuhan coronavirus confirmed in Canada and the number of presumed cases increasing daily, there is growing concern about what the virus—and its impact—means for Canadians.

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The sunsetting of one of Minnesota’s most successful all-time blogs–the MN PR Blog

Communications Conversations

Since, 2003, to be exact. Like I said, Ryan started the blog in 2003. “When Ryan started his blog in 2003, I was an avid reader because he was a friend and former colleague. If you’ve worked in the PR industry in the Twin Cities for any length of time, you’ve probably heard about or visited, the MN PR Blog.

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Charles told me: Listen to what King Simeon II is saying, each his word is priceless.

Maxim Behar

That is why wrote a short Standard of Business Ethics, or in general, what I wanted to happen in my company, and many others, in the next ten to twenty years - to be open, honest, honorable, and successful, full of happy employees with sparkle in the eyes. He runs the flagship PR company M3 Communications Group, Inc.,