PRSay

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

While ICON 2022 buzzed with the excitement of people happy to be gathered in person again, PRSA’s conference in Grapevine, Texas, also gave PR pros the chance to hear about the latest trends in the communications profession. A 120-year-old retailer, JCPenney has long had a presence in small communities across America.

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Cision

APRIL 26, 2016

New tools and technology are always accessible, but if you don’t have a plan for how you will use them, you won’t benefit from them. Ashley Simmons, director of communications at the Telecommunications Industry Association, says you must first develop a plan for how you will achieve your goals. The tools and technology will come after.

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PR Conversations

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Although the accelerating decline in the influence of national and local media signalled an end to the dominance of a journalist-to-PR career pathway, it also weakened the established case for the importance of PR in the C-suite (boardroom). Not surprisingly, many PR consultants and consultancies have repositioned themselves in this space.

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Ishmael's Corner

DECEMBER 7, 2014

I don’t think Rem Rieder, editor of the American Journalism Review, is going to be happy. Rieder penned a viewpoint piece for USA Today last year that spanked the Obama administration for bypassing the media for its own channels of communications: “The Obama administration is deep-freezing the news media because it can.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

Constantly on my radar and well-received by HDT’s audience is: emerging technology, alternative fuel, and autonomous advancement. The excitement was contagious (I’m still in awe of the technology), and it was refreshing to feel like anything I learned was “new” and worth reporting. Like every reporter, I’m a sincerely curious person.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

I remember sitting with a college student at a local Starbucks. She was asking me about different careers in PR … what type of PR would suit her best and whether she should pursue agency or in-house communications work. I’m able to catch up on what’s new in technology by walking through the exhibit hall.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

It’s equal parts learning, networking, sharing and giving back to the community. He’s hung a shingle and runs a consultancy focused on marketing technology. I curate a newsletter on marketing technology so I read a ton of articles about marketing every week. His marketing technology landscape lists ~5K tools.

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PRSay

DECEMBER 27, 2017

I had the opportunity to be inspired by your commitment to this Society, our profession and the work you do in your local communities. This gave me the opportunity to share PRSA’s value in person. Our profession is in good hands based on the PRSSA students I had the chance to meet at 21 different schools.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Once upon a time, many moons ago, I worked at a large PR agency as part of the consumer technology team. I didn’t get into the public relations and communications industry through a traditional career route. It’s not just the boss of the firm who should be out in the community to find clients, it’s a team effort.

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Media and journalism. You’ll leave with best practices and relevant case studies from real-world marketers thriving at the intersection of marketing, technology, and management.”. If you’re a senior-level marketer and you’re having trouble selecting or maximizing use of your technology, then we’d recommend attending this one.

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Business Wire

JANUARY 19, 2017

With over 50 years of industry leadership, Business Wire has established irrefutable trust from within the news market and has proven its thorough understanding of the needs of the digital age by creating a technologically sophisticated, patented distribution network.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Public service media is failing the public Thank you My thanks to the following communities and individuals. The project has brought me into contact with a new community of more than 50 thinkers and doers. The #FuturePRoof community goes from strength-to-strength. has been exploring in her work on women in journalism.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

JANUARY 13, 2015

At Orate , we often hear that event organizers struggle to find female speakers for their events, particularly in the technology sector. She has volunteered in India and South Africa, helping empower women through job skills training, in local communities. __. [1] 1] Larson, Selena. June 4, 2014. link] Many Women. [1i]

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Barokas

MARCH 22, 2018

VICIS is a sports technology company focused on developing highly engineered helmets that improve protection and performance. VICIS’ flagship helmet, the ZERO1, is the most technologically advanced helmet in history and was shaped by some of the world’s leading athletes, engineers and neurosurgeons. Social Media – The Shop.

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Flatiron Communications

JULY 5, 2022

I gravitated to the Centre Stage, but checked out the PandaConf (ad/marketing), and FourthEstate (media/journalism) stages. Notable quotables from Betsy Reed: “One of the things we’ve learned in the past few years is that while it’s necessary for journalism to serve as a fact-checking function of those in power…it’s not sufficient.

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Solo PR Pro

AUGUST 2, 2022

For many solo PR pros, the idea of becoming an adjunct instructor at a local college or university can be appealing. “With more programs moving online, opportunities to teach no longer have to be limited to your local university,” explains Kristie. “It gives me additional credibility among my peers and clients.”

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Flack's Revenge

JANUARY 10, 2019

Enter Instagram with its snazzy pix, short captions, easy engagement, and non-stop roll out of exciting new features; and What’s App, that so easily facilitates micro-community building and sharing. Neal: You can’t ignore Facebook, it is still the gorilla until something else comes along. Have these changes affected your social media habits?

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Cision

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The revenue model for journalism is at best in flux, and at worst, in chaos. Serious journalism from unexpected sources. Its UK office announced that it’s starting to cover more local news. Vice magazine, originally a local magazine in Montreal and best-known for local coverage and shock journalism, grew into Vice Media.

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NewsWhip

JULY 21, 2020

There was a somewhat steady rise of the Iffy Quotient on Facebook starting in mid-January 2020 until it hit a local maximum of 9.8% He co-authored the book Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence-Based Social Design. on February 18. Between February 18 and March 21 we saw a meaningful decline until it hit a low of 5.9%

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Maxim Behar

APRIL 11, 2024

Friends, community. It might take generations, but I'm confident that those living in Milan, Vienna, Frankfurt, or our beloved Berlin – where we'll gather on April 13th – will eventually adopt a similar outlook, just as the locals do. In journalism, there is a golden rule. Maxim: But there is nothing else there.

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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. a) Many community newspapers going away and hopefully still being available in some kind of online format. I see a few things.

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PR Conversations

JUNE 20, 2015

Five long years, and after nearly 600 PR Conversation posts , we’ve refreshed the look and feel, but continue to offer a platform for informed discussion, where a wide variety of voices can converse about public relations in a global-local context. PR Axis – features posts and case studies relating to planning, practice and evaluation.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

APRIL 2, 2024

More than half of US adults (55%) found nine major news outlets (ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and NPR) to be credible. And keeping in mind that a lot of news on social media originated with a reporter or media outlet.)

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Maxim Behar

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The Shumen Theatre was the first theatre in Bulgaria, the Shumen Symphony Orchestra was the first, and the Shumen Community Center was the first in Bulgaria. My dad had sent me to learn the language at the local Community center and I knew only how to greet and say goodbye to people, but I still told him that I knew how to speak.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MAY 22, 2023

Out of journalism school, I worked at the Galveston County Daily News , near Houston. I reported on NASA and crime, local government, League City, the bedroom community close to Mission Control/Johnson Space Center. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started?

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 1, 2022

This is how you wind up with a press release on a local ABC news affiliate in Buffalo even though your tech client is in San Francisco. Or the Longview Journal in the case of this particular announcement. Here’s a roundup of other news and links from the world of PR technology. PR tech news mentions. iSentia adds a new CTO.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JUNE 21, 2022

Wilson award for business journalism. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? My foray into journalism began by writing “letters to the editor” to several trucking trade pubs. I’m still actively involved in community theater as a sound engineer and have about a dozen musical productions to my credit.

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Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 29, 2014

One of the things I appreciate most about my local paper is that they hire and employe professional journalists. People who are trained in journalism. People who (hopefully) care about the community they live in. Learn about LOCAL news–you know, that place where you live? And, more importantly, who is creating it?

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Any startup, entrepreneur, or community player in the Atlanta startup ecosystem can add their blog – or individual post or announcement – for free. 2) How has blogging as a discipline or functional area evolved and how should it fit in the marketing or communications construct from a tech company’s perspective? You blog, we promote.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Note: Mr. Galant is the CEO of Muck Rack, which is also one of the companies I track for my writings on PR technology. Note: Mr. Martin is the co-founder and COO of OnePitch, which is also one of the companies I track for my writings on PR technology. 16) Social media fragments into niche communities. Greg Galant | Muck Rack.

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Ethical Voices

MARCH 28, 2022

I have had lots of crisis communications and uncomfortable situations to deal with, but I’d like to talk about when I worked for a restaurant chain, and I was hired by the local company that was purchased by the national chain. I tried with the new stores to engage the local community. They changed it completely.

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Katie Paine's Measurement Blog

MAY 25, 2023

It is designed to be used along with Paine Publishing’s: 8 Quick Tips for Finding the Perfect Communications Measurement Vendor Checklist for Picking the Perfect Communications Measurement Vendor , and No Bullsh*t PR Measurement Glossary for what’s what. If you need local press, however, your choices are more limited.

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Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 25, 2018

This is hard for a journalism major to admit, but cut the characters ! Studies show we can communicate with emotion better through emojis, gifs and stickers. In 2019, we’ll see emoji keyboards expand to make it even easier to find relevant emojis for our social media posts and community management. C-Suite Buy-in.

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PRSay

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Communications technology has benefitted society but also produced ills such as helping to connect and organize hate groups and conspiracy theorists, allowing governments to incite genocide and helping to spread disinformation that targets racialized populations, the report says. Local media investment. Local media investment.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We’ve used some of the noisiest conversations in our community of practice as our guide. Artificial intelligence - The UK Government’s National AI strategy outlines a plan to invest in the AI ecosystem, to support the transition to an AI-enabled economy, and to ensure the governance of technologies. You’d be welcome to join us.

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NewsWhip

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Its cross-cultural insights are widely cited in media outlets such as The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Economist, Fortune, Forbes and others. And maybe it’s a local government organization. Local governments are far more trusted than the federal government right now.

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Masters in Communications

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

It is not something often said about mass communication, but it is so integral to our lives - and always has been - that it is easy to take the dissemination of information and its associated methods and tools for granted. As technology advances, we require up to the minute information quickly and efficiently.

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