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Meltwater acquired as private equity tightens grip on PR software market [PR tech sum no. 47]

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This adds to a growing collection of private equity firms (PE) that have taken an ownership stake in software companies that provide tools to PR and communications professionals. Sumeru Equity Partners acquired a majority stake in the internal comms platform SocialChorus. Executing M&A post-deal is hard.

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The 22 Responsibilities of PR and What They Entail

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Originally Published August 23, 2017; Updated August 9, 2021 ; Updated November 2023 PR is always evolving. Corporate Communications As companies grow, corporate communications become more important. Corporate communications regularly involves interaction with senior leaders and HR departments.

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The 21 Responsibilities of PR and What They Entail

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Originally Published August 23, 2017; Updated August 9, 2021. Corporate Communications. As companies grow, corporate communications become more important. Corporate communicators regularly work with stakeholders across the organization to develop and distribute pertinent info to employees and key affiliates.

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Is this a nostalgic goodbye to the HARO brand? [PR Tech Sum 51]

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Yet, it’s important to pay attention to this stuff if your business buys PR software. You wind up seeing the products you used to love get watered down, stripped and mashed into other software in weird ways. This is because many of the queries aren’t from bona fide journalists, but from corporate bloggers.

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The 20 Responsibilities of PR and What They Entail

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Corporate Communications. Corporate communicators regularly work with stakeholders across the organization to develop and distribute pertinent info to employees and key affiliates. Corporate communications regularly involves interaction with senior leaders and HR departments. . Internal Communications. Media Training.

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Notified by Intrado is a Promising PR Software Tool that Supports 5 Central Duties in Public Relations [PR Tech Briefing]

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Notified says some customers use this for internal communications too. A search of several review sites – G2, Capterra, TrustRadius and Software Advice – did not produce any reviews at the time of this writing. Notified was acquired by West Corporation in April 2019 for an undisclosed sum in April 2019. 9) PR tech assessment.

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

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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. Catch up time in AI.

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