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PR Has Evolved Since First ‘Public Relations Handbook’ in 1967, but Some Values Are Timeless

PRSay

Fifty-five years ago, the first “Public Relations Handbook” that I edited was published. Back then, when we first published the “Public Relations Handbook,” reaching out to the media was relatively straightforward for PR professionals. Matt Holt Books recently published the book’s 5th edition.

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The 5 Phases of Becoming Crisis Ready

Melissa Agnes

Becoming crisis ready is a process. Fortunately, there’s a method to this process that can take any organization, of any size, type, and industry, from their current level of crisis readiness, straight through to building an invincible brand—which, as you know, is the ultimate benefit of being crisis ready.

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Maximising resilience of health and well-being assets in crisis situations

PR Conversations

The following is the result of our subsequent shared musings concerning the impact of crisis situations on the health and well-being of public relations practitioners. In an ongoing crisis, operating on adrenaline for a prolonged period of time can be – and is often – physically and mentally harmful.

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Letter from BETT

Stephen Waddington

It’s a useful tool for real time marketing, crisis and newsjacking work. There are powerful insights for internal and corporate communication. Help me write a new handbook for 2019 I’m working on a new how-to book for marketing, PR and SEO for 2019. It’s intended as a practical handbook.

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#InspireInclusion Is Nice and All, but What Does It Even Mean?

The Hoffman Agency

For example, HR materials, employee handbooks? These organizations aren’t just “inspiring inclusion” and adding to the corporate noise. PS: At the end of Miss Congeniality, our heroine takes the stage to give a speech before her fellow contestants as they thank her for her part in averting a crisis (huge understatement).

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Your profession needs you

Stephen Waddington

Patagonia seeks to use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis. The pursuit of a purpose beyond making money has almost become a religion in modern corporate communications. Typically engagement around user-generated content is seven times greater than that of corporate content.

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Amazon case study: Should rank-and-file employees be speaking on behalf of brands?

Communications Conversations

And, this opens up, yet again, a discussion we’ve had before: Should employees be empowered to speak up during a company crisis or firestorm? According to Amazon’s Corporate Governance page , “In performing their job duties, Amazon.com employees should always act lawfully, ethically, and in the best interests of Amazon.com.”