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Public Relations Jobseekers: Act Before 2017 Ends

Shift Communications

As 2017 enters its final month, we hit a period in the US B2B world known as the great lull. Given this backdrop, when would a jobseeker in the public relations industry be best served to look for work? As in, the weeks between Thanksgiving and December 10, 2017. Predicting PR Job Searches. The best weeks to reach out?

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Three Public Relations Mega-Trends in 2017

Shift Communications

What does the public relations industry have to look forward to in 2017? Just in news publications alone, we saw an astonishing 72 million news stories written in 2016 according to Google News, an all-time high. In 2017, the tsunami of content will only increase. Let’s see if we’re ready for them. Content Shockwave.

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How AI Can Help Your PR Strategy

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In 2012, Gartner predicted that by this year (2017), the CMO will spend more on technology that the CIO. Public relations professionals are now discovering that they need to figure out how to attribute their campaign success to business objectives to stay relevant in today’s world of marketing attribution.

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Top Public Relations Trends in 2018: Introduction

Shift Communications

As we wind down 2017, our gaze inevitably turns to the horizon. What’s ahead for the public relations profession amidst a world of disruption? In this series, we’ll examine some of the major trends we see ahead and how PR practitioners of all stripes should prepare. Advanced PR Practitioners Embrace AI Fully.

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IBM Vision: The Future of AI and Public Relations

Shift Communications

I had the pleasure and privilege of attending IBM Vision 2017 as a guest of IBM Analytics. Christopher Penn (@cspenn) May 17, 2017. We see this happening in the communications and PR industry. Legacy publications find themselves more under the gun every day, with declining subscribers and decreasing advertising revenues.

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SHIFT Communications Creates HAROLD: First Artificially Intelligent, Cloud-Based PR Employee

Shift Communications

April 1, 2016 – Boston, MA – Cloud-based computing and artificial intelligence represent the future of content creation, distribution, public relations, and marketing. HAROLD’s creation represents the first AI employee of a virtual public relations workforce. 2014: ZIPR Mobile PR Spokesperson App. Christopher S.

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Breaching 140: Who’s Using Twitter’s 280 Characters?

Shift Communications

On September 26, 2017, Twitter surprised its users by announcing that certain users would have their tweet character limits doubled, from 140 characters to 280 characters. Vice President, Marketing Technology. We downloaded 4,832,877 tweets from Twitter dating back to September 1, 2017. B2B technology. Methodology.

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