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15 years after: the collective “grilling” of Jim Grunig still delivers visionary insights on the future of PR

PR Conversations

By João Duarte, National Scientific Committee member, FERPILab 15 years ago, a group of PR scholars, practitioners, critics, and lecturers collectively challenged Jim Grunig to address some of the recurrent issues that emerged in the PR Conversations blog at that time. I believe we have to identify publics from their own perspectives.

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Triple 7s: The Best, Worst and Most Loved Blog Posts in 2017

Sword and the Script

The news cycle was faster, social media was hitting the early majority in the Geoffrey Moore sense, and blogsblogs were everywhere. We started a blog for our employer, a startup in the IT operations space. What we made, on a platform called Moveable Type in 2008, was a pretty good start, but there was also a lot of red-tape.

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Today, we say goodbye to HARO [PR Tech Sum 52]

Sword and the Script

The founding HARO was founded by Peter Shankman in 2008 as a Facebook group for journalists in need of sources. A spokesperson later contacted this blog to say the disruption of service was limited to European customers – that no U.S.-based Measurement templates. The change will take effect on April 2, 2024.

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Reflexivity Memo on PR practice from craft skills to education. A case of ‘plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose’.

PR Conversations

Then, please return to read this Reflexivity Memo inspired by Jim’s answers to the questions that I posed in 2008: Q9. Craft skills in 2008 – such as writing or editing – were an entry point for many, expected by employers, and readily supplied by educational institutions. I’m not convinced this has happened.

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Is Your Brand Messaging Recession-Ready?

Shift Communications

During the “Great Recession” of 2008, nearly eight million people lost their jobs. 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. It’s been said, “failing to plan is planning to fail.”

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How to Quickly Become Recognized as a Thought Leader on LinkedIn in 2022

wiredPRworks

Instead, I was soon packing my bags for an all-expenses-paid trip to Las Vegas to Blog World. Talk about your LinkedIn networking experiences on your blog and in your marketing communications and make your LinkedIn site [www.linkedin.com/in/yourname] as prominent as your home page URL in all communications. I couldn’t.

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Survey Analysis: Competition in B2B Content Marketing Heats Up

Sword and the Script

For all the upbeat indications in the study, an alarming statistic made a debut late in the report: Just 35% of B2B marketers are measuring content marketing ROI. 38% they need an easier way to measure ROI. 21% said it was too time consuming to measure ROI. Measuring ROI is hard. Measuring ROI takes time.