article thumbnail

Communicators Can Help Americans Vote in 2020

PRSay

3, Americans will cast their votes for President and for state and local candidates. With voting rules varying from state to state, communicators can help Americans understand the logistics of receiving and casting their ballots, according to representatives of voting-rights organizations who participated in an Oct. Check Vote411.org

article thumbnail

PR 2.0 for Communicating Research

Deirdre Breakenridge

A Guest Post By Kevin Anselmo, Founder of Experiential Communications. Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year in 2016 was post truth : an adjective defined as ‘relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

How Communicators Can Help Their Clients Navigate Misinformation and Biased News

PRSay

The traditional notion of “bad press” is negative coverage in a reputable journalism outlet that exposes legitimate complaints about a company — for example, coverage of a shareholder lawsuit, or a scandal about workplace conditions in a local or national newspaper. PR teams have been handling these kinds of events for years.

article thumbnail

The Challenges for Health Care Communicators as a New Normal Emerges From the COVID-19 Crisis

PRSay

As hospitals and health care services gradually reopen in the coming weeks and months, communications and PR professionals will be helping patients, caregivers and staff adjust to the new normal after COVID-19. For communicators, the challenge is to help people feel comfortable about returning to their doctors and hospital services.

article thumbnail

Book Review: Organizational listening - The missing essential in public communication

Wadds Inc.

Macnamara, a Professor of Public Communication at the University of Technology Sydney and a visiting professor at the London School of Economics, is an advisor to national governments and international institutions. Organizational Listening: The Missing Essential in Public Communication Jim Macnamara £27.00

article thumbnail

The #PRStudChat Community Discusses PR, Twitter & Politics on Tuesday, October 11th

Deirdre Breakenridge

With the 2016 Presidential Election Campaign being coined “The Twitter Election” there is no question that Twitter is topical. On Tuesday, October 11, 2016, at 8:30 p.m. He has a Bachelor of Applied Science (Communications) and a B.A. There is a lot to learn (and will be learned) from this mainstream news channel.

Twitter 293
article thumbnail

2016: The Year of the (Marketing) Monkey

Shift Communications

2016 in the Chinese Zodiac is the year of the Monkey, whose attributes include being “smart, quick witted, frank, optimistic, ambitious and adventurous.” Similarly, data-savvy businesses will push to marry insights with personalized communication at scale given the value personalized interactions hold in converting interest to dollars.