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What I learned about “going viral” on LinkedIn last week

Communications Conversations

Last week I had my first experience with a post of mine “going viral” on LinkedIn. Something I wrote “hot” and just reacted to as I saw the news in my feed that Sara Blakely had just given ALL her employees two first-class tickets to anywhere in the world and $10,000. Here’s the full post.

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6 Trends That Will Affect PR In 2022

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Research shows that consumers want the brands and companies they do business with to be fair employers, good corporate citizens, and responsible stewards of the environment. Employees are in charge. It helped grow “employer branding” among large companies and increased the clout of the workforce within the organization.

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7 PR Tips For Announcing Bad News

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

But sometimes, good companies have to share bad news. The last six months have seen waves of staff reduction announcements at major tech companies, despite record-low unemployment levels. What can smaller companies learn from these announcements? The goal is to refocus employees and stabilize morale.

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Walmart’s suspension of advertising on X became last month’s biggest brand story

NewsWhip

That was Elon Musk’s somewhat predictable response to the announcement that Walmart was the latest brand to suspend advertising on X, following other major companies who left the platform back in November when the issue first began. “I prefer HEB.”

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PR In The Time Of Coronavirus

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

The effect on employee health is still unclear, and the full business impact has only begun. This is surely easiest for businesses that can continue operations with employees working remotely, but it’s even more critical for those who can’t. What do employees and customers need to know in the short term? Make a plan.

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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.

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Barbie dominates August brand coverage

NewsWhip

Interestingly, as this is based on a search for Fortune 100 companies, which Mattel is not, the article only made it into our analysis due to the fact it was compared to some Disney properties, but that doesn’t make it any less striking. It’s worth stepping back and looking at just how much of a cultural event the movie has been.

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