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How Airlines Like Delta Hold Parents Hostage

Sword and the Script

For a mere eighty-eight additional dollars, the airline was kind enough to reassign us in a row together. The airlines are counting on it, indeed, I’d contend airlines, including Delta, prey on such emotions to separate a few more dollars from the consumer wallet. Other Airlines Prey on Parent Emotions Too.

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The Death of the Press Release.

Maxim Behar

You may have noticed that with the advent of Web 1.0 and the rise of news sites on the World Wide Web, the “press release” got a bit of a makeover as a “news release.” My advice: if you know how to write it, tweet it.

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CEO social profiles critical comms tools during COVID-19

Communications Conversations

you’re extremely complicated web or intranet)–especially important during a crisis. For example: Ed Bastian, CEO of Delta, is leading with emotional intelligence as the airline industry goes through a pretty tough time. So, write a note to yourself right now: Approach CEO, again, about being active on LinkedIn.

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How Digital PR Pros Can Cope with Recent Google Search Updates

Cision

The updates mainly affect web traffic, conversions and content, leading to SEO and PR professionals scurrying for changing their existing strategies. This includes tracking minor changes in keyword rankings and web traffic. As we saw with the recent United Airlines fiasco , crisis news doesn’t take time to go viral.

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PR Tech Briefing: Onclusive Provides PR with Attribution Capabilities and Promises Novel Approach to Distribution

Sword and the Script

This is because Onclusive takes broader crawl of the web, which matters to PR because the media landscape has fragmented. More importantly, you can see follow on actions all the way through to a web site goal or event such as registration, downloads and demo requests, for example. Most of the comments were overwhelmingly positive.

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How Digital PR Pros Can Cope with Recent Google Search Updates

Beyond PR

The updates mainly affect web traffic, conversions and content, leading to SEO and PR professionals scurrying for changing their existing strategies. This includes tracking minor changes in keyword rankings and web traffic. As we saw with the recent United Airlines fiasco , crisis news doesn’t take time to go viral.

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3 Steps to Equip Your Company Blog for the Road Ahead

Cision

We see it every day: fast food chains challenge devotees to gather retweets for “ nuggs ,” personal care products advocate for women’s equality and airlines get called out — for both successes and major fails — in viral videos. The relationship between companies and their customers has undergone a tremendous shift toward the personal.

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