Ishmael's Corner

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Every PR agency and internal PR function strives to communicate positive stories about the organizations it supports. When we capture storytelling assets for one of our clients, no one proactively comes forth to share the time that something went horribly wrong. The invention didn’t see the light day.

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PRSay

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Florida International University is a proud sponsor of PRSA. Whether a disaster impacts your company or an organizational issue disrupts your workplace’s ability to function as it should, well-mapped-out communication strategies should be structured to embrace the nuances of internal and external audiences.

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Onclusive

AUGUST 9, 2021

Owned media consists of publishing content on brand-owned channels such as a customer-facing blog, email campaign, or social media outreach. Corporate communicators regularly work with stakeholders across the organization to develop and distribute pertinent info to employees and key affiliates. Internal Communications.

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Onclusive

AUGUST 22, 2017

The flipside of earned media is owned media: publishing content on brand-owned channels such as a customer-facing blog, Medium publication, and the like. Corporate communicators regularly work with stakeholders across the organization to develop and distribute pertinent info to employees and key affiliates. Internal Communications.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The role of a PR agency in this alignment, and in building an organization’s reputation among customers, employees, and stakeholders, is central. A PR relationship may be challenging for brands to manage if they expect to take a hands-off approach and still be successful. Each is supported by tactics designed to achieve them. .

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Ishmael's Corner

OCTOBER 26, 2014

For consumer companies, Facebook offers one of the easiest platforms for brand storytelling. Take that photo of a customer smiling over the company’s product/service or that video of employees raising money for a worthy cause, publish on Facebook and voila! You instantly bring out the humanity of the brand. k, Pyongyang.

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5W PR

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Beyond purpose, it addresses critical industry topics like AI, employee engagement, the future of work, and more. International Journalism Festival The International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, is Europe’s largest annual media event. It featured prominent speakers and discussions on pertinent PR topics.

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Landis PR

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

It is the strategy of the organization, the policies (both internal and external) and the execution. Finding successful clients and employees Being values-aligned helps find and nurture successful relationships with both clients and employees. Those efforts are recognized and that helps differentiate your brand.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 29, 2019

In public relations, we rely on a blend of experience, storytelling instinct, and imagination to inform our programs and our work. The best plans also start with a thorough brand communications audit that includes insights into customer, channel partner, and employee perceptions of the business or its products.

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Stephen Waddington

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Its role in listening and engaging stakeholders, from employees to customers, and from suppliers to local and national government, was critical in managing this rapid period of intense change. Marketing: brand platform and alignment with sales The lines between marketing and communication continue to blur.

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Cision

APRIL 6, 2016

So how can you set your brand apart? In this interview, Michael shares his advice for brands looking to break through the noise, stand out and grab their audience’s attention. What do you think is the biggest challenge facing brands today? With so much content saturating the marketplace, how can brands stand out?

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MaccaPR

AUGUST 26, 2015

Your brand can share storytelling moments from its company history with your key stakeholders, too. Corporate histories are important to customers, employees, business partners, and community members. Plus, as Contently goes on to say, "a good story will make a brand seem unique among similar fierce competition."

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Goals, channels and metrics for internal comms. Internal communicators are striving to better inform employees – and improve engagement rates. That’s according to a survey of 250 internal comms pros conducted by Ragan in May 2022. 70% said “improving employee retention and engagement.”. In-house vs. agency.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 18, 2019

What is for sure is that a solid PR team is versatile and can expertly cover down on a broad number of functions: internal comms, external comms, executive comms, media relations, analyst relations, corporate social responsibility, thought leadership and marcom, and as I’ve long proposed, content marketing, among many others.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 20, 2018

The truth is, a great PR team can’t work miracles for a brand that truly doesn’t have a story to tell or news to share. Long-term employees might even be stuck with an outdated elevator speech when asked to describe the business. You have no news. If it seems like I’m stacking the deck here, well, maybe.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Shaw, corporate vice president of communications at Microsoft, during the lunchtime keynote session Monday at the 2019 PRSA International Conference in San Diego. We need to ask ourselves these questions: What are the impacts on brands? And that opportunity comes in the form of storytelling, diplomacy and truth, he said.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Whether you’re a nonprofit targeting donors or a corporation trying to build customer and employee engagement through a giving program, there is one group of consumers who stand out — millennials. So, too, should the businesses and brands that support social-impact programs. Make it authentic. Drive engagement year-round.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 20, 2019

There she leads a team of “storytellers of SHRM getting audiences to think, feel and behave differently across all channels via multimedia content.”. We are asking business executives, supervisors, and individual employees to all join in with HR to fix workplace cultures. When you have engaged employees, you have happy customers.

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Communications Conversations

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

I wonder how these schools “covered” this game from a news, storytelling and social media perspective. I grabbed coffee with Kate a couple weeks ago to talk about the game and how they approached it from a storytelling and social media perspective. It was, essentially, an internal newspaper for the University of St.

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ReimaginePR

AUGUST 15, 2016

Research why your original brand didn’t fit the audience, and use that to inform your rebranding strategy. After you’ve researched and brainstormed, come up with a solid plan for how you’re going to unveil your new brand. Develop a strong brand identity. Galvanize Your Employees Behind Your Rebrand. Click Here.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 30, 2021

When asked about specific functions, respondents overwhelmingly said employee communications (93%) grew in importance compared to pre-pandemic times. Brands taking stands on political or social issues. There’s greater support among communicators for brands to take a stand on social issues versus political issues.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Since before Mark Cuban famously warned tech startups against bringing on a PR agency , there’s been an ongoing debate about public relations for early-stage businesses, and lots of advice for how to build the kind of earned media visibility that rivals well known brands like Uber or Casper. The answer is no.

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Barokas

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Still, even as tools and methodologies to measure the return of PR become more widely adopted and sophisticated, I think general awareness, positioning and brand building—the intangible benefits of PR—will continue to be a primary driver behind why companies invest in PR.” – Karli Barokas, CEO. Let us know in the comments!

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 7, 2017

Some PR agencies fall into a trap of chasing only only large, brand-name clients. This is in part because like attracts like; large brands can bring more of the same, they reason. A PR firm may also think that doing media relations for well known brands can be easier than work for unknowns, because journalists are eager to cover them.

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Prohibition

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Overview of Tech PR Tech PR is the strategic use of communications and relationships to build the reputation of a brand or business in the technology industry. Tech PR also involves securing media coverage and amplifying content through storytelling to reach the right target audience.

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The Hoffman Agency

AUGUST 5, 2022

By Shipra Shukla, Intern. The power to change brand perception. Having spurred my interest to learn more about B2B, social media marketing, SEO, organic search, digital campaigns, promotions and all aspects of designing a brand’s identity, I decided to pursue a graduate degree. Chaos is the right word to sum it up!

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PRSay

APRIL 22, 2016

As consumers, we spend little time thinking about the people behind our favorite brands. We expect that the employees readying the products and services we spend our dollars on know who we are and what we need. What about your organization’s employees? Here are a few tips to start aligning your customers and your employees.

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Cision

JULY 7, 2016

Daniel Sieger, senior vice president of brand strategy at Cengage, says instead of explaining all the details, give your audience an idea of what you stand for. In this interview, Daniel discusses the process of building your brand, why it’s important to continue asking questions and how PR skills translate to other areas of communication.

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5W PR

JUNE 23, 2022

There are all kinds of benefits to establishing a company’s reputation, such as increasing brand visibility, supporting fundraising efforts, attracting talent, increasing employee and investor morale, reaching customers, and retaining them as well. Media Coverage. Simplicity.

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PR 20/20

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As Paul Roetzer ( @paulroetzer ) states in Chapter 8 of The Marketing Performance Blueprint : “Every marketing plan should start with an honest internal marketing assessment. Graphic designer / visual storyteller. What are our plans to augment the team through more advanced internal training or staff changes? Data analyst.

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Ishmael's Corner

JUNE 3, 2018

The Art Of Storytelling In Business Communications And Public Relations. The post Building Bridges in the Year of the Dog (Part Two) appeared first on Ishmael's Corner ~ Storytelling Techniques For Business Communications. Techniques For Effective Business Communications.

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Ishmael's Corner

MARCH 7, 2018

The Art Of Storytelling In Business Communications And Public Relations. The post Building Bridges in the Year of the Dog appeared first on Ishmael's Corner ~ Storytelling Techniques For Business Communications. Techniques For Effective Business Communications.

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PRSay

MAY 12, 2023

Consider your average employees — each day before that first cup of coffee is poured, they are likely inundated with messages from a variety of sources. Storytelling can be an effective way to create messages that can reach your employees and build a stronger connection to your brand. Find employee voices.

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Communications Conversations

MAY 11, 2017

Haven’t seen too many brands do this effectively yet, but Walmart seems to have repurposed Snapchat Stories into Facebook/YouTube content (if you’re wondering how to do that, here’s a nice tutorial ). These are the storytellers of 2017. And, they have the skills required for many social stories in 2017.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 14, 2020

In short, our main goal is to increase the profile and influence of the association through data-based storytelling and creative communications that inspire our audiences to learn more about what we do and become a part of it. SM: I look at our challenges in two ways: internal and external. employees in the U.S. –

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Presspage

APRIL 25, 2017

The ultimate goal is the use of visual content that is not only very powerful for storytelling, but also involves the audience in the activities of the organization. There are enough examples of newsjacking and funny Twitter fights by brands. And by using the plural, they are not alone. Everyone has a stake in shaping the timeline.

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The Hoffman Agency

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

At The Hoffman Agency we want our values to go beyond lip service and become the backbone of our organizational culture, which means ensuring they’re practiced by everyone — from our CEO Lou Hoffman, our newest interns and everyone in between. For entry-level employees at most agencies, these types of tasks are the brunt of their workload.

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