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The Top 10 Books of 2016 (According to Zude)

ZudePR

All the reviews below were featured in my irregular reading list email: I issued seven in 2016. 1: Deep Work: Rules for Focused (Sic) Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport (2016) £10.49. P.S. Cialdini brought out a follow-up book in September 2016. Sign Up Now. #1: Towards the end of 2015, I was feeling distracted.

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Gamification Delivers Results

5W PR

In his October 9, 2016 blog about the Baltimore Ravens fourth-quarter loss to the Washington Redskins, former NFL player Dan Birdwell threw in this quote: “You have to play this game just like somebody just hit your mother with a two by four.”. Gamification peaked in 2010, then went on a steady decline for several years.

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What Content Discovery Means for Search and How to Fuel Its Growth

Cision

The search industry was further revolutionized with the introduction Google’s Instant Results around 2010. billion in 2016. Pratik Dholakiya is the Co-Founder of E2M , a full service digital marketing agency and PRmention , a digital PR agency. The focus was more on quality of content. billion in 2014 to 2.17

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What Content Discovery Means for Search and How to Fuel Its Growth

Beyond PR

The search industry was further revolutionized with the introduction Google’s Instant Results around 2010. billion in 2016. Pratik Dholakiya is the Co-Founder of E2M , a full service digital marketing agency and PRmention , a digital PR agency. The focus was more on quality of content. billion in 2014 to 2.17

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The Making of Cision: A Brief History of 15 M&A Transactions that Consolidated a Sizable Chunk of the PR Technology Market into One Company

Sword and the Script

Today, the company is perhaps the largest of its kind, and I think understanding how it got to the place it is now, offers an interesting window into the world of PR and the evolution of technology for the digital PR community. Vocus , a provider of cloud-based PR software announces it will be acquired by GTCR for $447 million.