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Glassdoor reviews as a signal of corporate misconduct

Stephen Waddington

Damming Glassdoor posts from bad leavers are part of the cut and thrust of managing an employee brand in the social media age. You can smell the corporate overreach of an incentivised employee communication campaign to scrub reviews. They identified factors that signaled emerging scandals and corporate misconduct.

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Running Corporate Communications and Social Media

wiredPRworks

Does managing social media sometimes feel like running a marathon? Listen in as Allan Schoenberg, Chief Communications Officer at Vinson & Elkins, shares lessons from his job as a top communicator and his passion for running to help you enjoy your job more, stress less, and keep running in the race we call social media marketing.

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Glassdoor reviews as a signal of corporate misconduct

Wadds Inc.

Damming Glassdoor posts from bad leavers are part of the cut and thrust of managing an employee brand in the social media age. You can smell the corporate overreach of an incentivised employee communication campaign to scrub reviews. They identified factors that signaled emerging scandals and corporate misconduct.

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Book Review: A Century of Spin

Wadds Inc.

A Century of Spin critiques the public relations industry's role in facilitating corporate propaganda and undermining democracy. It’s an appropriate time to revisit A Century of Spin, first published in 2008 by the then University of Strathclyde professors David Miller and William Dinan. It is itself an exercise in public relations.

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Corporate blogging up among Fortune 500, but broadcast mentality prevails

Communications Conversations

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research recently released its annual report showcasing how many Fortune 500 companies are using social media channels. The report shares some interesting data about corporate blogging. 53% now have corporate blogs.” 40 percent seems high!

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PR Has Evolved Since First ‘Public Relations Handbook’ in 1967, but Some Values Are Timeless

PRSay

Back then, when we first published the “Public Relations Handbook,” reaching out to the media was relatively straightforward for PR professionals. About 2,200 local print newspapers have closed since 2005, cutting the number of newspaper journalists by more than half between 2008 and 2020. Three major broadcast networks dominated TV.

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Study: Big Companies Lag at Blogging, Social Media

Sword and the Script

Barnes to forgive me the editorial liberty I’ve taken with this headline, but that’s my takeaway after finally reading the UMASS Dartmouth Study: The 2014 Fortune 500 and Social Media: LinkedIn Dominates As Use of Newer Tools Explodes. These giant corporations are demonstrating an interest in experimenting with new tools.”.