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Treat Your Communications Counselors Like Your Lawyers

Solo PR Pro

The comparisons between lawyers and communications professionals are endless. The same comparison is true of a big PR/Communications agency vs a boutique or solo practitioner. Identify the strong communications professionals from the weak. In the case of a lawyer, you pay for their time. In PR it’s the same.

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Three lessons brands can learn from the Hockey Canada Scandal

NewsWhip

For comparison, Hockey Canada had a mere 143 articles written about them with just 14 thousand interactions in the same period the year before. Good crisis communications teams stay prepared for these kinds of events. According to NewsWhip’s data, there have been 7.5

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Maintaining Trust in the Age of AI

Presspage

After all, corporate communications is no longer about sending press releases. Human involvement remains indispensable in managing crisis communications and maintaining trust with stakeholders. It is about proactive narrative and taking a position on almost any topic.

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Study Reveals Gaps Between the CEO and PR in Communications Goals, Issues and Technology

Sword and the Script

The annual survey polled 210 CEOs, 1,583 PR professionals and 378 students with an eclectic mix of questions to develop the 2019 Global Communications Report. 1) A Difference in Communications Goals. Communications is a function of leadership.

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11 Shrewd PR and Marketing Predictions You Can Bank On

Sword and the Script

A comedy out of crisis communications. It’s worth noting that press releases have been dying at least since 1970-something , which is reminiscent of a famous quote attributed to economist Milton Friedman: The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

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Maxim Behar for BG ONAIR: What Bulgarians were Searching for on Google in 2021

Maxim Behar

Host 2: A comparison, any similarities? Speaking during Covid, one of the crisis communication specialists was a math teacher, my God, believe me, such a person should not be trusted with such task and when the media appoints a person who does not have the expertise, you will probably go looking for a person which will give you the expertise.

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Crisis Management: Airasia Crisis Takes To Twitter

Norton's Notes

Compared to the scripted communication of the mystery disappearance of the Malaysia flight back in March, Fernandes is looking at the priorities. Even though it is rather different circumstances Fernandes is proving what we all know in crisis communications that direct and genuine/real compassion is what the public need in times of crisis.