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Brand Vandal ten years on

Wadds Inc.

It’s the tenth anniversary of Brand Vandals written by Steve Earl and I in 2013. It tells the story of how organisations can build a reputational defence through their actions and by communicating with publics or audiences using paid, earned, shared, and owned media. Communities can have both good and bad intent.

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Three cardinal rules of PR that Adidas broke with Kanye West

NewsWhip

Somewhere in Adidas headquarters in Herzogenaurach, Germany, there’s a team of PR and Communications professionals who have just been through the toughest week of their careers. It was their job to try and crash-land the Adidas brand after Kanye West’s partnership sent their reputation into a tailspin. . The Story in a Nutshell .

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Brand Ambassadors, Brand Advocates: These Programs Aren’t Easy!

Rock the Status Quo

Don’t Let The Plethora of Blog Posts Fool You It’s easy to tout the benefits of brand advocate programs – of which there are many – but there isn’t enough discussion around just how difficult it is to create and sustain one. They are hired by the company and have a paid role to grow the brand.

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How the New York Public Library’s Blog Mobilizes Communities

Cision

The term “content marketing” casts a wide net when it comes to ways to promote and publicize a brand or organization. However, blogging is one of the leading tools in any brand’s content marketing strategy. And for nonprofit organizations on a budget, blogging can often be the most effective way to engage and mobilize communities.

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Q&A With Laurie Paolone, Founder of HashAtIt.com, The Hashtag Search Engine

Deirdre Breakenridge

From the popular community tweet chats to the breaking news and trending hashtag topics, these aggregated conversations certainly have captured our attention. I came up with the idea of HashAtIt.com when I was creating a brand new website for a small town in Italy called Castropignano. New hashtags are surfacing every day.

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Less publicized but more interesting takeaways from 3 reports on marketing and PR

Sword and the Script

The vendor community that serves PR has published a handful of reports over the last few months. ” I first heard the term in 2013, but it’s grown increasingly popular, because marketing people like to give new names to traditional concepts.

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The Two Most Effective Media Relations Tactics for 2013

Journalistics

In this post, I’ll share what I believe to be the two most effective media relations tactics for 2013 (hint: it’s all about inbound and real-time). Before I get to the two most effective media relations tactics for 2013, let’s agree that the smile and dial approach doesn’t work anymore. That’s the real-time media relations game.