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

Sword and the Script

Acquisitions PR software company Vocus acquired HARO in 2010 for an undisclosed sum. It was increasingly filled with queries from corporate bloggers with commercial interests rather than journalists with stories to complete on a deadline. sent out a tweet that went viral so quickly – the CMO came to my desk to see if I was okay. “He

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Lessons From a Very Public Break-Up

Waxing UnLyrical

We launched into Twitter on 25 August 2010 and into Facebook on the 7 February 2011. Together with our Marketing, Brand and Corporate Affairs teams, we developed a thorough plan to ensure our message and approach was consistent across all channels for the campaign. How valuable was that time spent listening?

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NBC: A Corporate PR Disaster

Bad Pitch Blog

a powerful media corporation could dictate a success by aggressively shoving a plethora of ads down our shrugging throats. It''s a corporate error still mass-produced by many media companies as they leak news to same-size media companies and believe we will accept the verdict because it''s all business and nothing is personal.

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PR Winners: The Best Stories of 2018

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

There was no apparent hesitation, no poll-tested apologies, no mealy-mouthed mea culpa, just a corporate statement that was pitch-perfect. Yet when Roseanne Barr tweeted racist insults as part of a bizarre Twitter feud with former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, ABC swiftly canceled the show.

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A critical review of Excellence Theory in an era of digital communication

Stephen Waddington

In the Third Annual Grunig Lecture Series[iii] at the PRSA International Conference in October 2010, Larissa and James Grunig explained the original objective and motivation of the research team. "We During the October 2010 speech at the PRSA International Conference, Larissa Grunig said. The Internet is littered with failed attempts.

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The Essential Guide to Mass Communication: History, Methods, Ethics, and the Future

Masters in Communications

It includes censorship which can be political, religious, or moral, but it can also exist within a democratic society and be selective when media elements criticize the military or corporate entities. Developed from corporate communications, it soon applied to mass media to the public (38). style vs substance.

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The Top PR Threats To Your Company’s Reputation

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Such was the case in 200 when the Deepwater Horizon, under contract to BP, exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. The Viral Customer Complaint. Those viral customer complaints are almost quaint in light of today’s environment. The good news is that “viral” customer service works both ways.