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Caine’s Arcade: How Powerful Storytelling Can Make a Difference

Polaris

In April 2012, Mullick released Caines’s Arcade, an 11-minute video telling the story of Caine, his cardboard arcade and the flash mob. The video quickly went viral, racking up over 1 million views the first day alone. He also addressed the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.

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7 Rules for a New Era of Communications

PRSay

Works like Daniel Kahneman’s “Thinking Fast and Slow” (2011) and Jonathan Haidt’s “The Righteous Mind” (2012) show that they — and our target audiences — are not. We need to educate ourselves and ask for feedback internally and externally. Studies have shown anger to be the most viral emotion, but anger destroys and divides.

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Conference Recap: Reaching Rural Americans, Preventing Social Media Crises and Using the PESO Model

PRSay

Here are some highlights from three professional development sessions at the PRSA 2017 International Conference in Boston on Oct. This type of planning includes making sure that your team is communicating well internally, too. “If If something is a problem internally, then it could explode externally,” said Emerick.

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Is PR To Blame When Apathy Reigns? Part 2

ReimaginePR

I can watch countless real world atrocities on dozens of international news outlets, then switch to Netflix to take in the graphic, fictional exploits of Spartacus, Dexter, or Hannibal. Conversely, fear and horror were centre stage in most Ebola coverage and imagery…and we just couldn’t wait to turn the channel to something “less heavy”.

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Adapting Strategies for Effective Storytelling in the Social Media Era

PRSay

With the tremendous growth of social media in recent years, the PR landscape is continuously evolving and causing public relations professionals to adapt to the 24/7/365 news cycle we now work in as well as the instant, viral nature in which news breaks and spreads. How this person hones these skills though is what truly sets them apart.

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How to Build Brand Awareness & Thought Leadership

Contently - Strategy

His company, Dollar Shave Club, rose from obscurity in 2012 after he created a YouTube video called “Our Blades Are F ing Great.” Brands love to talk about going viral; Dubin actually did it. The brand’s success was about more than just going viral or getting lucky. That’s quite the fairy tale, right?

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

Stephen Waddington

This is the paper that I wrote for my CIPR Chartered Practitioner assessment in 2012. 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 The Internet is littered with failed attempts.