Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2024

Top stories in today’s summary of PR news: Cision shutters the HARO brand; Agility adds “Intelligent Insights”; PR tech company replaces employees with AI On the first Tuesday of every month, I sort through all the news I can find on PR technology or comms tech and present it in a summary post like this one. It was a very humbling experience.

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Reddit Software B2B Technology 176

Shift Communications

JULY 26, 2022

During the “Great Recession” of 2008, nearly eight million people lost their jobs. But we’re planning for a change in the narrative. With this, we can anticipate a different look and feel to the labor market. For all companies, but especially those that deliver technology and services for the workforce, now is the time to prepare.

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Communications Conversations

APRIL 21, 2020

With unemployment approaching 2008-09 levels (and some projecting Great Depression 30% levels), finding a job the next few months to a year is going to be something a lot of people are doing. Just in Minneapolis, Best Buy, Sleep Number and Regis have already furloughed employees. Many agencies have asked employees to take pay cuts.

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LinkedIn Local Creativity Pitching 179

PR in High Definition

JUNE 25, 2020

Unlike the recession in 2008, we have a head start this time – we are more aware of what’s coming and what could follow. This is a very different situation to 2008, when the recession was shallower but lasted longer. The publisher of the Mirror, Reach, was forced to furlough nearly 1,000 employees, City A.M.

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Exercises Employee Social Media Communications 71

PR in High Definition

JUNE 25, 2020

Unlike the recession in 2008, we have a head start this time – we are more aware of what’s coming and what could follow. This is a very different situation to 2008, when the recession was shallower but lasted longer. The publisher of the Mirror, Reach, was forced to furlough nearly 1,000 employees, City A.M.

Exercises 62

Exercises Employee Social Media Communications 62

Bad Pitch Blog

AUGUST 20, 2008

Actually an “over eager Blogger spam attack robot from hell” thought our blog was "one of those" types of blogs. As a result, we have not been able to post to the blog since Monday, August 4, 2008. A Blogger employee finally took pity on us and jimmied the lock. What can we say, the dog ate our password.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 5, 2016

This blog I created about seven years ago is now a business – introducing Sword and the Script Media , LLC. While this site is currently undergoing a technology and copy overhaul that is far from complete – rest assured the blog and its useful content will continue to be front and center. To my future employees. market alone.

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