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

Sword and the Script

The banking community has some unique dynamics… Scar tissue. The financial crisis of 2008-2009 still haunts many of us; Frayed nerves. We live in a world with plenty of corporate fakes: fake press releases , fake web traffic and even fake job postings. They lost confidence. They didn’t trust the bank.

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Bringing Open Community To Public Relations

Waxing UnLyrical

Because if there’s one thing I believe takes public relations from good to great, it’s when your audiences start becoming your community through the relationships you develop with them. But I was curious to see how Maddie and Lindy perceived not just Open Community , but its juxtaposition with public relations.

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How Pink Panties Heralded India's Social Media Movement

Waxing UnLyrical

In the Indian context, the web has begun to move beyond a media genre that was no different in terms of interruption when compared to conventional media like television and radio. As privacy and choice gained momentum, permission-based Internet activity has led to what we now describe as the social web.

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Industry Consolidation Continues Among PR Vendors; PR Tech Sum: Onclusive, SocialChorus, Teletrax, iQ Media, Agility PR Solutions

Sword and the Script

I’ll include news from the PR vendor community and review and curate content they produce ( like this ). SocialChorus ranked in the top 10 on a question for the 2019 JOTW Communications Survey asking PR respondents to rank PR vendors by familiarity and favorability. Surveys of the PR community or reporters ( see these ).

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Influence or Popularity? Examining Influencer Marketing

Sword and the Script

My ideas are sometimes syndicated or shared in a variety of places around the web. However, when the social web exploded, many traditional PR pros were frozen in a lethargic traditionalist mentality and were slow to recognize how influence was shifting. My ideas are often syndicated in a variety of news and blog outlets.

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How Google Instant Might Impact Your Small Non-Profit

Waxing UnLyrical

If web metrics from these local sites start showing less referral traffic from Google, then it’s surely possible that Google Instant is, at least in part, to blame. To capitalize on this effect, each web page should have an attractive meta-description tag, and landing pages should be "sticky" with both content and user-interface.

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Highlights from the State of Blogging in 2017 Survey

Sword and the Script

This makes sense to me since WordPress is surrounded by a community of developers that created plugins that assist with design, organization, and content distribution – for search and social. This blog was originally penned on Blogger beginning in 2009 and migrated to WordPress in 2012. The Average Length of a Blog Post.

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