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After a Recent Three-Way Tie Up, Onclusive Acquires Critical Mention

Sword and the Script

The transaction follows a private equity-backed three-way merger between Kantar Reputation Intelligence, PRgloo and Onclusive which closed in the beginning of the year. million over five venture rounds since 2004. As I write this post, the current asking price on OpenSea is $36,099.60. Onclusive acquires Critical Mention.

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8 Ways to Make Your Press Release More Effective

Cision

– Richard Toohey, writing in Public Relations Quarterly , Fall 1972. Spin is something that the public is increasingly skeptical of, and this impacts the reputation of all communication professionals. How to Write a Press Release. Write better news releases: 6 common mistakes and how to avoid (or fix) them.

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Can we press release that? 15 stories about the public relations industry (you won’t believe #10)

Stephen Waddington

The industry has a wholly unrealistic expectation that graduates should be oven ready, and able to immediately undertake a stakeholder audit, write a blog, or pitch media. Whether that will contribute to the reputation or sales for your organisation is another thing entirely. Entry level roles demand work experience.

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The four Ps of public relations leadership

PR Conversations

Intangible assets include people , relationships , reputation …our territory. She was president of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) in 2004, leading it to Chartered status , and was awarded the Sir Stephen Tallents Medal in 2009 for her outstanding contributions to the profession.

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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). Criticism by Gawker (among others) led to a ‘pseudo’ apology (as defined by Lazare 2004 ).

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3 former PR pros who made mid-career shifts and lived to talk about it

Communications Conversations

I miss the issues and reputation management work, especially on corporate responsibility issues. I did go back to work at Fleishman Hillard for a summer while in grad school (2004). Alice Riot is our bet that we can grow this startup into a profitable business anchored in all three of those passions. Five years.

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Turn Off the Cloaked Reporter in this Transparent World

Bad Pitch Blog

The time spent writing, sending and waiting could be better spent focusing on reporters, producers, bloggers and the like whom we know matter already. The client’s reputation is at stake. Logical, but flawed, reasoning. Our time is valuable. Who has the hour to develop an on target pitch for an off-target publication?

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