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Spotlight on a Solo PR Pro: Meet Doug Levy

Solo PR Pro

You could say Doug Levy was born to work in the media and communications industry. In 2000, he jumped the fence to take a communications-focused role at global PR agency FleishmanHillard. Doug decided it was time for a change and struck out on his own to return to that passion, forming Doug Levy Communications at the tail end of 2015.

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Spotlight on a Solo PR Pro: Meet Ebony Vaz

Solo PR Pro

She started the company in 2004 as a side hustle before taking it full time five years ago. Through Above Promotions, Ebony is able to combine her interests and has one key goal in mind: to be a leader in the market for implementing science and technology into storytelling and customer experiences. From engineer to PR pro.

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Social Selling Secrets Masterclass

wiredPRworks

Tailored to fit sales teams, CMO leadership retreats, association education and online learning upskilling, the first version of this course was created in 2004. Interview: craft a compelling and true-to-life storytelling narrative. Diligent Data Measure: turn up online presence and connections to create your own communities. *

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NIL from a former student-athlete and professor perspective

Karen Freberg

When I officially retired in 2006, I ended my career as a 4x All-American, 2x SEC Conference Champion, 2004 Olympic Trials finalist, and was USC’s school record holder for 12+ years. Social media for strategic communication and Discovering Public Relations ). Lots of possibilities for sure!

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P.T. Barnum: “There’s No Such Thing as Bad Publicity”

Doctor Spin

This was done by embracing controversy, using storytelling to his advantage, and sometimes, pushing ethical boundaries. Please support my blog by sharing it with other PR- and communication professionals. Barnum had a knack for creating buzz. PR strategies to professionals. 3 Chryssochoou, X. and Volpato, C. Berkowitz (Ed.),

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Flawed Dot Connecting from Washington Post Correlates Rise of PR to the Fall of Journalism

Ishmael's Corner

The nerve of these organizations to communicate directly to their target audiences. BTW, I’m not insinuating that journalists are the “fast-food cooks” of communications. The best non-fiction storytelling on the planet comes from journalists. Can you imagine? Only there’s a couple of not-so-little flaws with this argument.

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Exposing PR’s weaknesses

PR Conversations

Indeed, I’m concerned that where PR practitioners have rebranded themselves as Communicators working in Communication(s) functions, they generally mean they like to write (or maybe, only maybe, that they are good at this). Are they familiar with conceptual frameworks that help improve communications?