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8 Surprising Reasons To Raise Your Internal Communications Game

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

It can be easy for a corporate PR team to neglect a critical aspect of business communications — internal PR. In certain cases, high-profile companies take it for granted that employees are corporate cheerleaders, or they may leave the responsibility for employee engagement to HR. 8 reasons to invest in internal PR.

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2017 Crisis Management That (Mostly) Worked

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

But in the spirit of fair play, here are some examples of reputation management that succeeded in 2017. The speed with which the #metoo movement has toppled boldface in journalism, politics, and entertainment is breathtaking, and major media companies have not been spared. Pepsi’s graceful mea culpa. SoFi is spared major scandal.

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PR Recap: International Home + Housewares Show – 2017

5W PR

Just conquered The International Home + Housewares Show. With more than 2,100 exhibitors from around the globe showcasing the latest and greatest in innovations for the home, The International Home + Housewares Show returned to McCormick Place in Chicago and this year did not disappoint. Ran a half marathon, you ask?

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Creative Headlines Will Drive PR SEO & Success in 2017

Cision

It continues a thought leading series based on Agency and Client-side workplace issues, and is the basis of a forthcoming coaching and mentoring book to be published in 2017 alongside the 15th anniversary of the agency. Creating such community in 2017 is now of the highest significance as journalism returns to its roots.

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M&A: The Top Reasons Why One Company Acquires Another [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

Over the course of my career, I’ve lived through two acquisitions, contributed to internal and external comms for several more, and at different organizations, and even did a divestiture. In 2017, the company acquired a then buzzy new tool called BuzzSumo, which is also based in the U.K. Journalists see right through it.

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Content analysis tool BuzzSumo adds journalist database for SMBs [PR tech sum no. 48]

Sword and the Script

BuzzSumo edges into PR with journalist database for SMBs; Poppulo adds generative AI for internal comms; why don’t PR software vendors follow basic PR standard practices? The company believes its history of analyzing content will enable it to surface the best reporters for a story by analyzing data.

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CBI sets out urgent requirement for internal and external communication on AI

Stephen Waddington

In 2018 AI companies raised almost twice the investment of counterparts in France and Germany. A recent PwC study published in 2017 estimated innovation in AI could fuel GDP growth of ten percent by 2030. Venture capital investment into the UK’s AI sector has risen almost six-fold in the last five years according to TechNation.