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Understanding the Defense Tech Industry and the Role of Public Relations

5W PR

Defense technology transcends the world of gadgets and apps. Forget the Silicon Valley playbook of viral trends and flashy apps. Here, technology isn’t about entertainment. This involves crafting compelling narratives that go beyond technical specs and delve into the real-world impact of technologies.

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Today, we say goodbye to HARO [PR Tech Sum 52]

Sword and the Script

Top stories in today’s summary of PR news: Cision shutters the HARO brand; Agility adds “Intelligent Insights”; PR tech company replaces employees with AI On the first Tuesday of every month, I sort through all the news I can find on PR technology or comms tech and present it in a summary post like this one. based customers were impacted.

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Listen Up on Social: Q&A With Jay Baer

Cision

Q: What tactics help to make a campaign go viral? Viral means something is shared, and we share things that create emotional connections somehow. That said, trying to be viral usually means that you won’t be viral. Q: Does it take paid research to make these stories go viral such as the University President story?

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7 Things You Need to Know Before Starting a PR Business

Deirdre Breakenridge

There’s nothing like a grueling weekend spent unsuccessfully following up on pitches for coverage of a client’s innovative, disruptive, and ground-breaking new technology release to make you start daydreaming of starting your own firm. Each year brings new technology and new table stakes skills for communications professionals.

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What Compels People to Share Your Content?

Waxing UnLyrical

Be succinct, use photos, on and on down the list of cliched suggestions that have peppered many a blog post. A Harvard marketing professor named Thales Texeira has done some recent studies of content virality and sharing. Sufficed to say that as dry as I write, I probably won’t be going viral anytime soon. Why we share.

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Get Inspired by These 3 Content Marketing Innovators

Cision

What helps BuzzFeed’s content go viral — whether it’s a listicle, news story or quiz — is the way it writes in different forms depending on which social media platform will share the story. Here are three big names to take a look at for content marketing inspiration: BuzzFeed.

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2017 Crisis Management That (Mostly) Worked

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Everyone recalls the PR fiasco United Airlines experienced in April when footage of a dazed and bloodied passenger being dragged from his seat went viral. That, too, was captured on other passengers’ cell phones and enjoyed a brief viral moment on social media. Southwest Airlines’ soft landing.