Stern + Associates

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

How can organizations confidently take advantage of the benefits associated with modern technology while avoiding negative impacts on surrounding communities? You cannot, and should not, be an ethical engineer if you have not gone through a process in which you have to deal with your impact on the things you’re developing.

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Local Community Ethics Education 99

Stephen Waddington

MAY 23, 2018

A new report published by the CIPR examines how much of what we do in public relations is threatened by technology. These findings are from a new report called Humans still needed: An analysis of skills and tools in public relations , published today by the CIPR’s #AIinPR panel. It’s an important piece of work.

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NewsWhip

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

35 ) Per the research, a significant number of people around the world are wary of innovations, with the chart below showing the acceptance levels of four technological breakthroughs — green energy, AI, gene-based medicine, and GMO foods. (Source: Trust Barometer, p.35 Source: Edelman Trust Barometer, p.7 Source: Edelman Trust Barometer, p.7

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Government Survey Technology Ethics 88

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Most comms pros have some concern about bias across eight different media sources; at one end, 54% expressed strong concerns about social media, while at the other, 28% expressed strong concerns about professional journalists. As a rule, I avoid politics – the typical catalyst for discussions of media and bias.

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NewsWhip

AUGUST 18, 2021

Either way, it has the capacity to drive huge amounts of public and media attention across the web and social, so in this analysis we’re going to look at some of the trends we’ve seen in 2021 so far, beginning with web coverage. It often stirs debate about how much some of this tech actually falls under the category of AI.

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Company Web Ethics Analysis 148

Wadds Inc.

OCTOBER 12, 2023

New technologies become embedded into workflow over time. Spelling, grammar, reading level analysis, and writing quality tools have all been incorporated into word processor applications. Not all practitioners use these tools, but where they do, the impact has been recognised as improving and levelling up skills.

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Publicity Tools Exercises Ethics 105

Landis PR

JANUARY 9, 2023

AI can also be used to analyze large amounts of data, such as media coverage or social media conversations, to help PR professionals understand how their efforts are being received and identify opportunities for improvement. Landis: Can you detail the ways in which AI will be used by the public relations industry?

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Wadds Inc.

JANUARY 11, 2023

The shiny new toy is an ethical minefield. Text at the click of a button There’s a great deal of excitement about the technology as it seemingly is able to mimic human creativity and generate and edit content incredibly quickly. More sophisticated text analysis is also possible. GPT-3 is very good at summarising a block of text.

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Publicity Wikipedia Marketing Training 98

Deirdre Breakenridge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

For years, I’ve been discussing the changing roles of PR professionals as a result of social media. Their study, “ Roles in Social Media: How the Practice of Public Relations is Evolving ” was published by PR Journal in Summer / Fall 2016. Q: What made you pursue your research study on “Roles in Social Media?”

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

JANUARY 23, 2024

Before we look at the intersection of machine learning and psychology, it’s important to consider how the technology can make a difference in PR and marketing campaigns. Well, frankly, technology can only go so far when it comes to understanding human behavior. How can you bridge the human and the technological?

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Technology Training Data Consumer 76

Stephen Waddington

JUNE 26, 2018

Artificial intelligence (AI), has become a catch all term to describe technology that simplifies a task for a human being. Technology is impacting PR work in a variety of ways, including the simplification of tasks; listening and monitoring; and automation. All professions are being impacted by technology.

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Ethics Analysis Technology Data 69

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Here’s the monthly PR Tech Sum rounding news and links from the world of PR technology. Yet Gina Nowicki penned a piece that estimates the pricing of PR technology tools for Prowly. These include Pulsar, which is a social media monitoring tool and Vuelio an all-in-one PR software tool based in the UK. PRgloo social media.

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Stephen Waddington

JULY 29, 2020

Technology is impacting practice in a variety of ways, including the simplification of tasks; listening and monitoring; and automation. Valin has been at the forefront of best practice in PR internationally on topics including AI, ethics, and leadership throughout his career. This figure is likely to rise to 38% by 2023.

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Offleash

JULY 19, 2023

News flash: We work in technology. Technology is always changing, disrupting, reshaping, and often improving how we work. I was working in PR before mobile phones, through the dot-com boom and bust, Y2K, the Internet and Google Search, social media, and certainly before the rise of the machines.

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Crisis Communications Ethics Creativity Crisis 52

Wadds Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The CIPR has been at the forefront of exploring the impact of technology on public relations and society over the past 30 years through work on the internet, social media, and most recently AI, data, and machine learning. We have attempted to examine the potential impact on public relations practice and the public sphere.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

JUNE 6, 2023

One thing is certain, this giant step in the technological revolution is here to stay and only growing more extensive and impactful daily. For the last several years, marketers primarily used AI for data analysis and predictive modeling. To the average consumer, AI likely snuck up like a mysterious, unknown entity.

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Communications Marketing Technology Data 40

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2023

PR can also involve managing events, speaking at conferences, and developing social media campaigns. PR practitioners use a variety of methods to get their message out, including press releases, media relations, social media, and more.

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Interviews Publicity Technology Social Media 99

Karen Freberg

AUGUST 6, 2017

Is influence and having a large following a must have for social media professionals today? Influence on social media is not only influencing the profession as we see it for marketing and public relations for example, but the economy as well. The answer is: depends.

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Social Media Media Sports Analysis 40

Stephen Waddington

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Crowdsourced tool database Technology is enabling us to work smarter and more efficiently. In my day job at Ketchum we routinely use tools such as Brandwatch for social media listening and insight; Traackr for identifying stakeholders; and Quid for natural language analysis.

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Landis PR

JUNE 26, 2023

From generating press releases and social media posts to crafting personalized pitches, AI-powered tools are reshaping the way PR professionals work. AI-powered tools can automate tasks such as writing press releases, drafting media pitches, and creating social media content.

Publicity 52

Publicity Training Data Tools 52

Stephen Waddington

JULY 11, 2018

AI has become a catch all term to describe technology that simplifies a task for a human being. Technology is impacting PR work in a variety of ways, including the simplification of tasks; listening and monitoring; and automation. We’ll also fail to understand its impact of media and public discourse. AI goes a stage further.

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Analysis Ethics Technology Crisis Management 60

PR in High Definition

DECEMBER 17, 2020

British mobile networks are hoping to take up a leading role in emerging radio technology, OpenRan, which could be worth up to $21bn. Google is currently coming under fire and receiving employee backlash after sacking leading AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru. CityAM covers the full report and analysis.

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Ethics Google Banking Radio 62

NewsWhip

JUNE 2, 2021

Predictive media intelligence describes a set of technologies that enable PR professionals and reporters to predict the impact of news stories, consumer trends, and create optimised content, earned media plans, and content distribution plans. . But within a storm there are underlying patterns.

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Media Data Reddit Crisis 88

Cision

APRIL 19, 2016

In this interview, Deborah discusses the challenges of communicating with different generations, the growth of social media and the trends that will impact marketing and communication moving forward. Along came one-to-one marketing, then social media brought about significant change. How can brands keep up?

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Ethics Consumer Leadership Groups 120

5W PR

JANUARY 31, 2024

Technology Public Relations (Tech PR) involves managing and enhancing the public image of technology-related companies and products. It encompasses strategic communication to build and maintain positive relationships with the media, stakeholders, and the general public. How does Tech PR Work?

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Technology Product Launch Crisis Management Case Study 78

Prakkypedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

An ABC Radio National show and podcast, Download This Show explores “the latest in technology, social media, consumer electronics, digital culture and more”. I enjoy listening via podcast, and find that host Marc Fennell occasionally has mainstream media guests. Download This Show.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 9, 2017

In the previous post we proved this hypothesis false: Trustworthy content is shared more on social media. Is it always the case that trustworthy content is not shared more on social media? What we see instead of a neat line graph is something else entirely: three clusters of social media sharing.

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Data-Driven PR Data Analysis Pitching 60

Contently - Strategy

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

More recently, data scientists have developed “ transformer” models which leverage newer NLP techniques that can process language data faster and allows developers to create powerful “large language models” using Internet content from search engines, social media posts, news reports, and chatbots, to name a few examples.

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SEO Strategy Google Engineering 93

Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

First, the ease with which disinformation can be created and spread via social media has huge implications for public engagement and discourse in society. Second, structural issues in the mainstream media as it continues to transform to digital should be a concern for all practitioners. Please keep reading for the full analysis.

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Government Education Print Ethics 103

Newsfile

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Also, you must bolster investor confidence , manage investor expectations and positively influence market perceptions under ethical guidelines and regulatory standards. Pre-Call Announcements: Use various channels such as email , social media and your corporate website , to help ensure maximum awareness and attendance.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 14, 2019

Recently, I’ve begun looking more closely at PR technology , companies. This is an effort to illustrate some of the interesting innovations occurring within the PR vendor community – and provide an agnostic source of information on tools and technologies I believe PR professionals should have on their radar. Sentiment analysis.

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PR Conversations

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

If you have views on this topic, then add a comment here or on social media. With PR bodies increasingly focused on the importance of raising standards in professionalism and ethics, why are some (or most?) That’s the question that started the following PR conversation between Kevin Ruck and Heather Yaxley. Dr Kevin Ruck.

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Training Ethics Data Analysis 65

Onclusive

JUNE 1, 2023

Social media listening is fast becoming an essential part of the PR and Comms toolkit. Forward-thinking brands are already embracing the strategic advantages that social listening tools can offer when it comes to managing brand reputation, crisis detection, and optimising comms strategy.

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Strategy Communications Reputation Measurement 370

Maxim Behar

OCTOBER 15, 2023

And in fact, the characteristic of a publisher is to own media. What we do from morning to night is come up with interesting, provocative, and truthful content for the social media that we own. The first difference is that social media is interactive. In all of social media, you can go in and see that analysis.

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Newspapers Meeting Ethics Social Media 59

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Social media platforms Bluesky and Threads will continue to become attractive substitutions for X (formerly Twitter).” ~ Marc C. Cleverer, GenAI-enhanced social media bots and convincing deep fakes aimed at interfering with the U.S. However, it’s like social media was a decade ago.

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Writing Communications Marketing B2B 192

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And, given the vast amount of time I pour into writing about PR technology , I’m really pleased with the long list of contributions from the PR technology vendor community. Once coverage appears, it can then be shared via social media and clients can also leverage paid media to boost it even further if they choose.”.

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Marketing Content Marketing Data Social Media 189

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 1, 2023

Cison released a code of ethics including “Privacy protection and security of client information.” ( Source ) I haven’t seen any announcements from Cison about generative AI, but perhaps they are trying to get ahead of ethical issues. A code of ethics isn’t a bad idea. Stance is an “alternative to traditional sentiment analysis.”

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