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

Stern + Associates

At the SAFElab , where Patton is the founding director, social workers and local residents join Patton and his team to add context to social media messages, which helps programmers build algorithms that interpret messages correctly. Through keynote presentations, interactive workshops and as an advisor to AI companies Kai.ai

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EV charging infrastructure – construction, projects, planning and tax issues

Practical Law Construction

In the third and final blog in our series looking at common queries on the roll out of EV infrastructure (see our previous blogs on progress and challenges and landlord and tenant issues ) we focus on construction, planning and tax aspects. Question: Is planning permission required to install EV charging points in an existing building?

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Sending Deskless Workers Relevant Communications That Make Work Better

PRSay

Limeade was a proud sponsor of Connect 19 — the PRSA Employee Communications Section’s annual conference. Despite the traditional image of an employee at a desk in an office, a significant proportion of today’s workforce is deskless. A recent report estimated that deskless employees make up 80 percent of the global workforce.

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How to build better relations with employees

PR Conversations

Next, it is interesting that Earnshaw’s chapter title focuses on relationships with employees, where the 2014 text has a more functionalist title. Hence my preference for Earnshaw’s focus on building better relationships employees rather than seeing them as an audience for internal communications.

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Does PR Help in Reputation Management for Your Company?

Victorious PR

You know it’s reputable because you personally vet and hire each employee; have strong company values that you live by; inspire your employees to live by them as well; and do your best to make sure your company is ethical, moral, and genuine. Maybe they don’t do their taxes, or they don’t treat their employees or customers fairly.

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PR Tips and Hacks for a Small Business

The Proactive Report

That depends on whether you are a local business or have clients and customers all over. Local business networking still thrives on personal connections – Join the Chamber of Commerce and other relevant groups. Alignable has local groups you can connect with. Look for local groups on MeetUp. What are some networking tips.

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A telecom company holding a red carpet PR event? Verizon kinda pulled it off.

Communications Conversations

Why not open the list up to all sorts of local “influencers?” Get Verizon employees involved. Instead of hiring actors (or stand-ins) to showcase the Verizon products, they simply let their employees do it. I think now other employees would be anxious to be involved in future events! Make the red carpet fun!