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The corporate blog makes a major comeback in 2020

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Oh, and also, corporate blogging was almost dead. But, corporate blogging was down. According to the good folks at the UMass Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research , corporate blogging use was down to 21% among the Fortune 500–the lowest it had been since they started tracking in 2010. But then a funny thing happened.

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PR Lessons From The Biggest Failures of 2023

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Some were management failures, while others were about corporate values or behavior. Walk the walk before you talk: International Women’s Day It was more an embarrassment than a crisis, but in March of 2022, hundreds of companies marked International Women’s Day with promotions or social posts of support.

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How corporate IT is actually killing employee communications

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For those of you born after 1985, Lotus Notes is an operating system that runs all sorts of programs internally for big organizations, including email. A wealth of apps on phones that allow these employees to do everything from bank to make travel reservations to buy clothing with just a few simple clicks. It’s seamless.

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Power of Possible Podcast: U.S. Bank takes interesting approach with new podcast

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Bank, which launched its “Power of Possible” Podcast earlier this year. Why did you decide to start a corporate podcast? Why did you decide to start a corporate podcast? I have been inspired by other corporations and organizations that have started podcasts. Bank focused podcast wouldn’t work.

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Amazon’s New PR War Isn’t Working

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Picking a public fight with powerful legislators isn’t a typical PR strategy for a giant corporation, but that’s Amazon’s latest move as a crucial union vote deadline arrives. Amazon has tweeted childish insults about Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, who chairs two banking and finance subcommittees.

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Why Your Technology Company Needs PR

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Yet even if the PR program is executed internally, public relations and influencer marketing can help put a tech company on the map. Visibility from earned media coverage and social sharing can differentiate a brand by aligning it with exciting ideas or communicating corporate values.

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Can PR Take Ownership Of Reputation?

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Few corporate CEOs will deny that a company’s reputation colors every aspect of business, including marketing, talent recruitment, employee relations, shareholder relations, and the customer experience. Reputation’s soaring value is good news for PR and corporate communications professionals. In fact, the 2017 U.S.