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The Five Misconceptions About Public Relations Jobs

5W PR

Misconceptions about career opportunities in public relations can lead to misunderstandings about the work and required skills. Public relations focuses on media relations and party planning Public relations is often misunderstood as just event planning and media interaction. But it’s much more than that.

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The #PRStudChat Community Discusses Creative #PR on November 17th

Deirdre Breakenridge

ET, the #PRStudChat community will gather to discuss Creative PR and how smart PR today requires a combination of creative storytelling, powerful visual imagery and data-driven decision making. Hw founded the agency in 2012 to help organizations propel themselves forward using the entire spectrum of public relations.

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What is Storytelling? Why Does Storytelling Work? What are Good Examples? [UML]

Sword and the Script

Like many in PR, I’ve had debated many times over the years, and the reason is that storytelling works. 1) What is storytelling? To understand storytelling, you have to understand what makes a good story. It takes rationality but little creativity to design an argument using conventional rhetoric.”.

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Creative Storytelling: Picture This: It’s Not Just the Words – It’s What You Do with Them

Waxing UnLyrical

The great Brian Solis, who I had the pleasure of seeing live in 2013 as keynote speaker at the PRSA’s International Conference, recently published this article on LinkedIn about creative storytelling. Solis says that 550,000 LinkedIn members describe themselves as storytellers. Image: Via Pixabay, Creative Commons CC0.

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Once Upon a Time …: The Art of Storytelling

Waxing UnLyrical

The art of storytelling is rooted in the origins of every society. As far back as history can reach, humans have used storytelling to teach the next generation, to connect with others, to protect their culture and much, much more. For many creative writers turned corporate, this means using your lede to create your story arc.

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Corporate storytelling is an essential future PR skill

Stuart Bruce

” – you can if you’re creative enough. John Cleese said “Creativity is not a talent. ” There are many ways that PR professionals can learn to be more creative operators. At just 35 characters, including punctuation, you could fit “For Sale: Baby’s shoes, never worn.”

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13 Leadership Lessons for PR Pros (Taylor’s Version)

PRSay

Taylor Swift’s much-anticipated album, The Tortured Poets Department (out April 19), sounds like it should be about a corporate communications team. We are creators, storytellers and writers. Her storytelling is personal and intimate and gives a glimpse of what she’s feeling at the moment. Swift’s songs are never formulaic.