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Effectively Engage and Build Your Community Through Podcasting

Deirdre Breakenridge

Podcasting is the quickest growing communications medium, and it seems like everyone is jumping on the bandwagon. It’s a crowded field to be sure, but it also offers an excellent, and even underused, opportunity for businesses to increase engagement with its community. Image Credit: Pixabay. Now is the perfect time to begin.

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6 Guidelines for Social Media Tragedy Response

Shift Communications

Rather than a knee-jerk policy of “stop the presses” or an endless stream of “our thoughts and prayers are with the victims” posts, we as communicators, as fellow human beings must balance our humanity with our duties and responsibilities to our companies. are safe and accounted for. Social media should be the least of our concerns.

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The #PRStudChat Community Discusses Financial Services & Social Media on April 19th

Deirdre Breakenridge

Understanding your business purpose and approach on social media is imperative and financial services companies are investing in their infrastructure, guidelines, and engagement best practices. Jenn and the #PRStudChat community will be answering and discussing the following: How is social media transforming the financial services industry?

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Community Management: Quit Herding Cats

Cision

If media relations is an arm of public relations, community management is another. Publicity and press coverage are great, essential even, but it does little good without loyal, engaged followers to share the news. A community grows your reach and influence. But how do you manage that community? Where is it found?

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Can Ethical PRs Represent Unethical Clients?

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

The public relations business is plagued with bad cultural stereotypes (see: Flacks ) as well as real-life examples of specialists who lie or deceive. At the same time, there’s a bigger incentive for communicators to do the right thing. What does this mean for the PR community? Sure, every occupation has its bad apples.

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The 22 Responsibilities of PR and What They Entail

Onclusive

Whether you’re a new PR assistant or the Director of Communications, the core of your job revolves around using news and content to put forth your brand’s desired messaging. Our job descriptions tell us what we’ll be responsible for in a given public relations or communications role, but we rarely reference the J.D.

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Become the Pied Piper of Community Building

Waxing UnLyrical

Communities have been around for centuries, however online communities have only been around for a few decades. According to Computerworld the first “online community” came about in 1973 when Talkomatic for the PLATO time-sharing system released a text-based group chat. Let’s get right to it, how to build your brand’s community.