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The Power of Local Knowledge: Why Product Development Should Start with Listening to Your Community

Stern + Associates

How can organizations confidently take advantage of the benefits associated with modern technology while avoiding negative impacts on surrounding communities? Existing data science techniques cannot accurately understand key cultural nuances in language amongst predominantly communities of color.

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Less publicized but more interesting takeaways from 3 reports on marketing and PR

Sword and the Script

The vendor community that serves PR has published a handful of reports over the last few months. The company’s measures are based on the pitches sent through their systems. Studies show the average email marketing campaign has a 20% open rate and 2% CTR. So, says Propel, which provides PR software. Is that good?

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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. Guest Post by Samantha Lake. Engagement.

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Meltwater acquired as private equity tightens grip on PR software market [PR tech sum no. 47]

Sword and the Script

The largest PR and comms tech companies, along with many startups, are now controlled by PE firms; is this good for the PR community? This adds to a growing collection of private equity firms (PE) that have taken an ownership stake in software companies that provide tools to PR and communications professionals. Muck Rack named Inc.

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Are impressions the new engagements in social media marketing?

Communications Conversations

Her theory: Impressions are highly under-valued in the social media marketing world, whereas she believed there was far too much focus on engagement. Essentially impressions > engagement in social media marketing. What does this mean for you as a social media marketer? Is your mind blown? Mine kinda was, for a minute.

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Marketing the Health Benefits of Your Beverage

5W PR

Food and beverage marketing agencies face a challenging task in today’s crowded market. Communication One way for brands to stand out is to clearly communicate the health benefits of their health drinks. There are a lot of beverages in the market that might seem healthy, but contain added sugars.

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Join the #PRStudChat Community for a State of Healthcare Communications Twitter Chat on February 17th

Deirdre Breakenridge

ET, the #PRStudChat community will participate in a Twitter chat discussion focused the state of healthcare communications. Dana Lewis created and moderates #hcsm, the international healthcare & social media community on Twitter that meets Sunday nights at 8pm CT. Susan Young ( @SueYoungMedia ).