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The ABC’s of ESG and Reputation. Corporate Care or Greenwashing?

Reputation Us

While ESG has essentially been a part of many corporations ideology and strategy for decades, the term and customers’ familiarity became more prevalent in 2020 due primarily through heightened awareness of ESG’s importance to the world’s wellbeing. Corporate Care or Greenwashing? appeared first on ReputationUs.

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For comms pros, Silicon Valley Bank is a reminder that trust is currency

Sword and the Script

The financial crisis of 2008-2009 still haunts many of us; Frayed nerves. The preceding cryptocurrency meltdown toppled a bank or two and reminded us of the financial ghosts; and Uncertainty. We live in a world with plenty of corporate fakes: fake press releases , fake web traffic and even fake job postings.

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After lockdown: the creative agency market

Stephen Waddington

Reorganisation and investment in talent Agency positioning for growth Scaling and corporate development Brexit is done: deal and no deal bring same issues Environment, society, and governance an emerging issue for 2021 Every conversation with marketing and PR agency bosses at the moment starts with the same question about the market.

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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. It was increasingly filled with queries from corporate bloggers with commercial interests rather than journalists with stories to complete on a deadline. The change will take effect on April 2, 2024.

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Stockholders in the Corporate Family – or contemporary activists?

PR Conversations

At the time of authoring this chapter, he was Public Relations Director at General Foods Corporation before taking up the same role for in 1952 for Eisenhower (and subsequently serving in his presidential administration). ” Sadler in 2008 concluded: the corporation is not always responsive to social activist shareholder resolutions.

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Behind the Headlines With Ted Meyer

Cision

In this interview, Ted Meyer, senior vice president of global public relations and communications of Natixis Global Asset Management, shares his thoughts on the importance of communication during a crisis, how the financial crisis of 2008 is still affecting brands and what PR used to look like before the Internet and social took over.

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Is It Right to Sell Others Short?

Mindful Marketing

generally rise and fall together financially, a short seller’s success comes courtesy of two others’ failures , namely 1) those of the company whose stock the short seller has borrowed and 2) the person who buys the stock from the short seller. However, at least one financial markets expert suggests that advantage is exaggerated.