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Forget “Better PR” — The PR Industry Needs Education

Doctor Spin

Social media began to emerge with behemoths like Facebook, founded in 2004 and Twitter in 2006. Today, SEO (like SEM) is considered a form of marketing instead of earned and owned communication. But we can fix everything — by educating ourselves online. Let me explain: Table of Contents. We had a window. And we missed it.

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The PR Industry Needs More Than Just Better PR

Doctor Spin

Social media began to emerge with behemoths like Facebook founded in 2004 and Twitter in 2006. Today, SEO is beside SEM considered a form of marketing instead of a form of earned and owned communication. But we’ve already messed up. After the dot-com bubble in 2000-2001, the Internet slowed down. We had a window.

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Addressing the talent challenge in PR – finding stability in volatile times

PR Conversations

Calculating a demography for public relations is incredibly unreliable, but data for 2004/2005 suggested two percent of PR practitioners in the UK work in small consultancies or self-employed. In the UK, Brexit, whatever your take on it, has introduced an enormous amount of mid to long term uncertainty for many organisations.

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