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The Marketing Power of Wikipedia: 8 Tips for PR Pros

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As PR and marketing professionals – and consumers – we often forget about the sheer power and influence that Wikipedia has on our daily lives. Wikipedia is a permanent part of our public culture. All jokes aside, Wikipedia does have a distinct influence on the business community. Wikipedia is just plain popular.

Wikipedia 101
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On Today’s Multi-Agency Wikipedia Statement

Where the Fishermen Ain't

PR Leaders Today Affirm a Commitment to Abide by and Evangelize Wikipedia Community Norms. Last February, William Beutler , principal of Beutler Ink and publisher of The Wikipedian , convened a meeting of digital leaders from multiple agencies, as well as notable Wikipedia volunteers. Here are four of them.

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For whom the bell tolls

Stephen Waddington

An upcoming discussion between two senior public relations practitioners, spotlights the issue of ethics in public relations. Lord Bell worked for Margaret Thatcher during the 80s and 90s before founding the eponymous public relations agency Bell Pottinger that he ran for 30 years. Lord Bell left the agency in August 2016.

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Is Pay-to-Post Blogging The New Advertorial?

Waxing UnLyrical

If you cannot get coverage any other way, you might need a new PR department/agency/consultant; and 2. Here are my thoughts: 1) Ideally, brands/agencies would never pay bloggers and never even give them product or pay for trips, lunches etc. A few important qualifiers here: 1. It is on this latter point that I will reflect.

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Your Favorite MaccaPR Blog Posts: Ellen's Oscar Selfie, Death of PR Spin and Online Content Secrets

MaccaPR

Since MaccaPR first launched in late 2012, we''ve averaged a new blog post nearly every week for our loyal chief marketing and PR officer, corporate communication directors and marketing professional subscribers. Spin" connotes deception, obfuscation, misdirection and other smoke and mirrors tactics to hide the truth.

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Definers Saga and the State of PR Ethics

Flack's Revenge

It made me think of broader questions about PR ethics, which I’ve explored before here, and the state of communications today. In his story, Nicas wrote: “Definers specialized in applying political campaign tactics to corporate public relations — an approach long employed in Washington… but less common in tech.”

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