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7 Best, 7 Worst and 7 Favorite PR Blog Posts in 2016 [Sword and the Script]

Sword and the Script

The year of 2016 brought a fairly significant evolution for this website. In May 2016, the blog Sword and the Script became the digital foundation of an Atlanta-based PR and marketing agency: Sword and the Script Media, LLC. Over the course of 2016, I published some 84 posts, on PR , marketing and social media.

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64% of PR and Marketing Pros Will Increase Content Marketing Efforts in 2016: Marketwired Survey and Infographic

Marketwired

If you’re curious about content marketing, a quick Google search will serve up no shortage of information on trends, best practices, benefits for B2B and B2C companies and what it all means as 2016 approaches. Will you be a #ContentMachine in 2016? What are YOUR plans for content in 2016? We’re curious, too.

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The real reason brands are still posting 30X a month on Facebook

Communications Conversations

Back in 2016, this was actually a somewhat progressive concept. A few brands were leading the way (Target, at the time, was the example I liked to use), but most were still playing by 2012 rules (volume > quality) and posting 20-30 times a month on Facebook. They had a whopping 39 posts in October on Facebook.

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5 Tips to Design Highly-Effective Corporate Social Responsibility Campaigns

MaccaPR

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) campaigns are on the rise as brands explore how they can stand out in a crowded, noisy marketplace, position themselves apart from their competition and make a statement with consumers. In fact, Fortune Global 500 firms spend $20 billion a year on CSR activities. But don’t commercialize your goodwill.

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How Will #PR & Marketing Pros Approach #Content in 2016? A Q&A With Lisa Davis, Marketwired

Deirdre Breakenridge

Content marketing will be more than just a trend to watch in 2016. to find out exactly how PR and marketing professionals felt about their content efforts in 2015, and to also see how they plan to approach content marketing in 2016. Here is my Q&A with Lisa Davis, Director, Marketing, at Marketwired.

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The Future of Twitter

The Proactive Report

The major social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter) have been fairly stable for the past five or six years. That might be about to change -Twitter just reported a dismal Q4 for 2016: 16 cents per share on revenue of $717 million. Back in November 2016 the shares were $18. It could just mean corporate raiding.

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24 people I’d like to have coffee with in 2016

Communications Conversations

And while I’m not backing off my primary claims (no coffees with folks who want to “pick my brain” and phone calls instead of coffees with students looking for advice), I am making a concerted effort in 2016 to get back to coffees. I think we may get lucky in 2016. Hoping to fix that in 2016. Redo for 2016.

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