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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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The Best Execution for your Link Building Campaigns

Buzzstream

You’re fairly unlikely to “go viral” with this format because they’re unlikely to produce stories that will make the front-pages of top-tier newspapers or magazines. Some blog posts will have pre-determined internal links or calls to action incorporated, meaning that you may have some unwanted distractions in and around your content.

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Your Favorite MaccaPR Blog Posts: Ellen's Oscar Selfie, Death of PR Spin and Online Content Secrets

MaccaPR

Since MaccaPR first launched in late 2012, we''ve averaged a new blog post nearly every week for our loyal chief marketing and PR officer, corporate communication directors and marketing professional subscribers.

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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.