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The Death of the Press Release.

Maxim Behar

1906–2007 The one-time ubiquitous emblem of classic PR, the press release, has technically been dead for a while now. An admittedly arbitrary but still plausibly precise date pinpointing the press release’s death might be November 6, 2007 — the day when Facebook launched its then vastly obscure, and today vastly dominant, Facebook Pages.

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Landis 32 Anniversary – How I Donated my $320: Part 2

Landis PR

RECAP: We recently announced that San Francisco Business Times included Landis in its Top 100 businesses in the Bay Area Corporate Philanthropy list. I was fourteen years old in 2007, the same year I lost a good friend to leukemia. Makenzi Jordan Rodriguez – Communications Specialist. I learned at too young an age that life is short.

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3 Things Puppies and Kittens Taught Me About Becoming Influential

Waxing UnLyrical

Those two years might as well have been five (or seven), given the extraordinary progress we made in raising the organization’s visibility and profile during some of the most turbulent times in animal welfare (to cite just two: the 2007 pet food recall and Michael Vick case ). I learned so much while I was at the A.

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PR Rock Stars: Trane’s Heidi McGuire

Communications Conversations

That work ended a couple years ago, but I knew I wanted to stay closely connected with Heidi so I invited her to be a part of a corporate communicator mastermind group I manage. What were your keys to success in moving up the corporate ladder? After a couple meetings, Heidi and I were working together. It’s never crowded.”.

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Putting PR on the Table for Minority Students

PRSay

Like Thomas, I began my freshman year in 2007 at Midwestern State University already knowing that I wanted to major in Mass Communication. However, I noticed something concerning in my professors, internship supervisors and the professionals in our local organizations. One of her most noted clients was Toyota Motor Corporation in 1987.

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PR: Less Elitist Than Ever

Maxim Behar

A tiny portion of PR is designed to serve corporations’ CEOs and senior management. He can do that on his own, or some local journalist can do that for him for a small amount of money, or his teenage kid can do it for free. Regarding social media, a PR professional must be everywhere and on top of everything.

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Junk Mail, Junk News

Bad Pitch Blog

For years, many COMPANY locations have relied on their local Valpak franchise to create and deliver advertising campaigns to area consumers. In 2007 the familiar blue Valpak® envelope will deliver savings to nearly 46 million households each month throughout the United States , Canada and Puerto Rico. In add ition, Valpak.com®,

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