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Why Now Is the Time to Eliminate Jargon and Buzzwords

PRSay

As employees look for answers during the COVID-19 crisis, they need simple, straightforward language. In their 2005 book, “Why Business People Speak Like Idiots,” authors Brian Fugere, Chelsea Hardaway and Jon Warshawsky wrote that employees perceive jargon, hype and buzzwords as packaged and inauthentic. How did we do?

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PR Has Evolved Since First ‘Public Relations Handbook’ in 1967, but Some Values Are Timeless

PRSay

About 2,200 local print newspapers have closed since 2005, cutting the number of newspaper journalists by more than half between 2008 and 2020. Rereading our original chapter on crisis communications underscores the changes that have taken place in corporate America and public relations since then. million in 1974 to 24.3

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Carbon bandwagon

Stephen Waddington

Public relations must take responsibility for its role in the climate crisis. The public relations industry is falling over itself to help businesses get to grips with the climate crisis. The climate crisis is in plain view. Agency initiatives and new roles appear daily in industry publications. This is the carbon bandwagon.

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When A Founder Does PR Damage

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Elon Musk also made waves with a self-inflicted PR crisis this week — this one on a more global scale. Munster advises Musk to ignore short sellers and reminds him that the perception of “think-skinned and short-tempered” leadership is not helpful to his company. It starts with an apology. The red flags were there.

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World Communicators Want Your Questions

Landis PR

A member since 2005, Landis has the benefit and delight to be working with our partners from Japan to Germany, Chile to South Africa, Australia to Denmark, Ireland to Argentina, and everywhere in between.

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World Communicators Want Your Questions

Landis PR

A member since 2005, Landis has the benefit and delight to be working with our partners from Japan to Germany, Chile to South Africa, Australia to Denmark, Ireland to Argentina, and everywhere in between.

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Maxim Behar: Social media has made the world better and more understandable, don't be afraid of it!

Maxim Behar

What does crisis PR require in such a situation? Every crisis is ultimately better resolved if we have good advance preparation and a quick reaction. Behar was born in Shumen, in 2005 he was named an honorary citizen of his hometown. If not - wide world, many opportunities.