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Brands Must Show They Understand and Respect the LGBTQ Community, PRSA Webinar Panelists Say

PRSay

Featuring some of the country’s leading LGBTQ communications professionals, the event covered how PR practitioners can engage with and support the LGBTQ community. There’s usually a ton of women in PR,” but “we need people of color and then, on top of that, we need people of color who are gay in leadership positions.”.

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

Sword and the Script

The largest PR and comms tech companies, along with many startups, are now controlled by PE firms; is this good for the PR community? 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.

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A Guide to Pride Without Pandering

PRSay

And we have a new President and new leadership in Congress. If the past year has taught you anything, then it should be that the price of admission to the LGBTQ ally community is now much higher. Educate yourself about the rich history of our community, and understand both trailblazers and current leaders and influencers.

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The Now and No of Engaging LGBTQ Audiences

PRSay

This division is even more stark when you consider the rising attacks on LGBTQ people in statehouses, courthouses and communities nationwide. It’s no longer enough for companies to merely say they “support” LGBTQ people and ignore attacks on our rights and our lives in communities across the country. adult population does as well.

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The Business Leader’s Guide To Navigating Geopolitical Risk

Stern + Associates

A Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Stent has a body of work nobody can hold a candle to – including “From Embargo to Ostpolitik,” “Russia and Germany Reborn,” “The Limits of Partnership,” and most recently, the award-winning, “ Putin’s World: Russia Against the West and With the Rest ” (2019).

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The Volume and Variety of Communications Work is Shifting, Finds 5th Annual Survey of Comms Pros

Sword and the Script

” In open-ended comments, respondents cite digital, internal comms and a greater focus on comms by leadership as among the underlying reasons. Some of those comments include the following: “Significantly more related to internal comms and recruiting.”. Stacey Miller , Vice President, Communications, Auto Care Association.

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In Memoriam: Kathleen S. Kelly, Ph.D., APR, Fellow PRSA

PRSay

Kelly retired from the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications in 2019 after 16 years, including three years as chair of the Public Relations Department, where she was an internationally recognized authority on fundraising as a specialization of public relations. Kelly, Ph.D., She was 77.

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