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How Can Financial Services Organizations Use Social Media?

wiredPRworks

Visuals matter Make it emotional Connect with values like ESG Build communities around groups like women entrepreneurs Differentiating between financial services firms and financial services influencers Why volunteering is essential. An early social media advocate, Barbara founded Social Media Club Chicago in 2008.

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Who Can Be a Solo PR Pro Now?

Solo PR Pro

In 2008, we shared that Solo PR Pros can be involved in: Business consulting. Community relations. Corporate communications. Direct advertising. Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC). Internal communications. Some have local practices and others are international. Event planning. Fundraising.

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The Extra Mile PR Strategy: Wow Your Customers

Doctor Spin

Offer pro bono services to a non-profit organisation in your community. Partner with a local influencer to promote your business on social media. Host a community cleanup event or volunteer day with employees and customers. Please support my blog by sharing it with other PR- and communication professionals.

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Confusion, Technology and Talent in Marketing; Off Script #26: Frank Pollock on Fundamentals and What He’s Learned from Working in CPG

Sword and the Script

It’s equal parts learning, networking, sharing and giving back to the community. As it turns out, he got his start selling radio and television advertising and only later went to work in the CPG industry after earning an MBA. All the better he came highly recommended, and I’m sure glad he did because this interview doesn’t disappoint.

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Engaging (and grilling) the social side of James Grunig

PR Conversations

NOTE: Originally published on October 15, 2008. For example, the Brookhaven National Laboratory , on Long Island in New York, found that community groups disagreed with each other about whether the laboratory should restart a nuclear reactor after it leaked radioactive waste into the ground water. Where will this concept end up?

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How to Get On in New Communications: Be Nice

ZudePR

Deirdre is CEO at Pure Performance Communications and the author of five Financial Times books. . “When I first started blogging in 2008, it was to document my own journey through a changing media landscape, knowing PR needed a new approach. For me, as a local government employee, there are clear political boundaries.

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Digital Diplomacy

Waxing UnLyrical

I took up my post in the UK in February 2008. What do you think are the biggest challenges facing the digital communications space globally at present? MM: I have two: Demonstrating value of investments and how digital communications can deliver for the business, directly on the bottom line. Mainland Europe is extremely varied.