Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 20, 2012

The biggest news in the history of social media took place Friday when Facebook had its IPO, becoming the biggest social name ever to join the public market. Its $108 Billion offering came in as the 3rd largest ever (behind Visa and Enel), so the day was significant not only for social media types but also for market watchers.

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Cision

JUNE 29, 2015

“Talking about ourselves—whether in a personal conversation or through social media sites like Facebook and Twitter—triggers the same sensation of pleasure in the brain as food or money” – Robert Lee Holz, “Science Reveals Why We Brag So Much,” Wall Street Journal, 2012. Want more crisis communication tips?

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PR Conversations

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Distance from an event lends a certain perspective, as we all know from our various war stories on crisis communication. At last, public relations comes out from under the shadow of marketing and media relations—and it is not just me who is saying it. He agrees, “PR now has the opportunity to do something about this.”.

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Maxim Behar

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Levon Hampartzumyan: Yeah, he's met successful people in business, politics, media, so he's famous enough himself that other famous people know him. A market without limes is not a market. Maxim Behar: In 2004 I received a strange email from my acquaintances in Paris. I call it marketing though, not aphrodisiac.

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Maxim Behar

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Tonight, we have a very erudite, broad-minded, and informed expert who sees things happening under the surface of the media and public space. Media drives the communication between people around the world. What is that communication, that connection between the media and those who have a need to present themselves to the public?

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PR Conversations

AUGUST 17, 2014

Likewise, I’m concerned by those who say PR is marketing, yet display little understanding of the underpinnings of either domain. Criticism by Gawker (among others) led to a ‘pseudo’ apology (as defined by Lazare 2004 ). Others now describe themselves as storytellers, content curators or narrators.

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Stephen Waddington

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Why is public relations conflated with media relations? Ever since Ivy Lee sent the first press release on 28 October 1906 public relations have been associated with media relations. Publicists and agencies focused solely on the media exaggerate the issue. Managing relationships with media is only one area of practice.

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Cision

JANUARY 29, 2016

Sometimes politicians lose because they slip down staircases ; other times because they say scream too loudly at political rallies like Howard Dean did in Iowa during the 2004 election. When brands control conversations at this scale, it is either total market dominance or full crisis mode. Nothing could stick. By 11:00 p.m.

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Maxim Behar

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

On the other hand, this was the first monarch to have a Twitter account, which is far from negligible, long before her son, who is now already king, and began to communicate with young people through social media. I see the many posts on social media that have appeared that a 73-year-old is finally getting a job. He had too much work.

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